Vuelta 2025, the Big Start in Turin. Here are the first 3 stages in Piedmont

Turin, 2 December 2024 - After the Tour de France it's up to Return: to celebrate your first 90 years of life, the Spanish race gives itself a Great Partenza dall 'Italy and to be precise from Piemonte, which will host the first 3 stages starting from August 23th, 2025.  

The 3 stages in Italy

 The official announcement was made at Turin, in the presence of the mayor Stephen Lo Russo, of the president of the region Alberto Cirio, of the councilor for tourism, culture and sport Marina Chiarelli and Javier Guillen, general manager of the Return. In front of this parterre the veil has been lifted on 3 stages that will take place in PiemonteThe first one will start from Turin-Venaria Reale and it will come to Novara after 183 km, embellished by the passage on the climb of Bienca-Tomalino Pass. The stage 2 will start from Alba and will end at Limone Piemonte after 157 km, closed by the first uphill finish of the Spanish race, whose remaining route should be revealed on 19th DecemberThe third fraction will be the San Maurizio Canavese-Ceres di 139 km, which will have in the rise of Issiglio Pass its highlight. Then, the fourth stage will start from Susa and will greet theItaly, which for the first time is preparing to host the Return, which he has already met 5 starts from abroad: to be precise, those from Lisbon (1997), Assen (2009), Nimes (2017), Utrecht (2022) to Lisbon-Oeiras-Cascais (2024). In fact, the list should already include Monaco, In which 2026 will be the scene of the beginning of the third Great Tour in chronological order by season: UCI permitting.

Italian numbers at the Vuelta

 Precisely for the 2026, as stated in recent days by the president David Lappartient, hypotheses are being examined within the calendar to move the races more into the grip of the heat: just like the Tower Down Under , Return, which over time as Italians has seen the successes of Fabio Arau (2015), Vincenzo Nibali (2010), Marco Giovannetti (1990), Giovanni Battaglin (1981), Happy Gimondi (1968) to Angel Conterno (1956). The Italian stage successes are instead 187, With l 'Italy which ranks third in this special ranking behind Spain e BelgiumWho knows if these lists will be able to grow longer and richer in the future. 2025, the edition that should (but the conditional is still a must) also see the start Tadej pogacar, in the sense of giving precedence to Return at the expense of Giro d'Italia. If this seems like the bad news, the good news is that if these rumours are confirmed, the Italian public (and especially the Piedmontese one) could still witness the exploits of the champion live.UAE Team Emirates and anyone else who wants to try to write their name on the roll of honor after that of Primois Roglic. The runner of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe is today the holder, ex aequo with Roberto Heras, of the highest number of editions won at the Return (4): who knows, maybe it's from Royal Palace of Venaria Reale therefore a record edition cannot start in this sense too.

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