Departure from Italy for the Vuelta 2025

Starting from Italy for the Vuelta 2025

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Departure from Italy, Turin to be precise, four states crossed and two time trials including one team time trial. È this is what the route of the Tour of Spain, the Vuelta, unveiled in its entirety today in Madrid. While it has been known since early December that the 90th edition would start in Piedmont, which will host the first three stages in their entirety starting Aug. 23, it was learned today that after Italy, the peloton will do a short one-day stage in France, climbing Montgenèvre and Lautaret. Then the riders will board a plane to head to Spain.

The fifth stage will be a team time trial, a spectacular event è which has become rare in the grand tours, while the next day will see the first major mountain stage arriving in Andorra, the fourth state crossed by the Vuelta in 2025. For its 90th anniversary, the Tour of Spain wants to "pay homage to tradition by including some of the passes that have marked its history", such as Morredero, Cerler or Valdezcaray, race director Javier Guillen said in the presentation.

Also noted in the program are less historic but already cult climbs, including the terrifying Angliru, one of the most difficult in the world, scheduled for stage 13, the longest of the 2025 edition. Five high mountain and six medium mountain stages are scheduled. With four days to go, Valladolid, the city that hosted the arrival of the first stage of the first Vuelta in 1935, will host a potentially decisive individual time trial.

The day before the final finish in Madrid, Sept. 14, è a final mountain stage with a climb to the Bola del Mundo is planned. Organizers hope this route will please Tadej Pogacar. The Slovenian, who was third in 2019 for his first and only participation, said he would wait for the routes of the Vuelta and the Giro d'Italia, which will be unveiled in January, to decide which of those two grand tours he will contest in 2025 alongside the Tour.