The tour of the Tour of Spain 2023 was presented this Tuesday in Barcelona and will have, as is traditional, great days in the high mountains between August 26 and September 17.
The competition will start with a 14.6 kilometer individual time trial starting and finishing in Barcelona.
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The Tourmalet, in France, and the Angliru, in Asturias, will be the great giants of the 78th edition of the Vuelta, but not the only ones, since the route presented at the Palau de la Música Catalana offers 10 finals in its 21 stages , five of them unpublished, in addition to 2 time trials.
A Vuelta faithful to its mountainous personality with unprecedented mountain finishes and complicated arrivals with the aim of keeping fans alert until the last day, this time with a mountain stage in the Community of Madrid on the eve of the final, which will not be the usual one ” of the ports”, but a “classic” leg-breaker with 10 levels of third class that can give a lot of play to one step from the final party.
La Vuelta 2023, which will include 2 time trials, the initial team trial in Barcelona and an individual one in Valladolid to open the second week, will cover 9 autonomous communities and will travel through three countries: Spain, Andorra and France.
All within a menu with 10 high goals, five unpublished, six medium-mountain, four flats and two flats with a high finish.
Startup
Barcelona will launch the Vuelta with a team time trial on a very urban 14 km track.
The second day will start in Mataró and end again in Barcelona, at the gates of the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium. After the first two finishes in Barcelona, the peloton will head to Andorra from Súria to experience the first mountainous day of the race.
The Principality will host the first unprecedented high end of La Vuelta 23 with the climb to Arinsal. The peloton will spend the night in the Principality before heading south from Andorra La Vella to Tarragona to end the Catalan and Andorran tour of the first days of the race. From the mountain to the coast.
The round will go to the Valencian Community to tour the province of Castellón in a medium-mountain day between Morella and Burriana.
The town of La Vall d’Uixó in Castellón will be the starting point of the next stage on the way to Teruel, with the final ascent to the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory as the highlight of the day and of the first week of competition. Seven days of shocks that are going to end, finally, in a day for the sprinters, in a stage between Utiel and Oliva, next to the sea again.
On the Costa Blanca, the runners will get inspiration to finish the next day at the well-known peak of Xorret de Cati, a day with 5 climbs and a high finish line.
The first day of rest will come after the stage that Murcia will visit between Cartagena and Caravaca de la Cruz, a new trip from the coast to the mountains, with the suitcases ready to fly to Valladolid. First neutralization. The second block of competition opens with a 25-kilometre individual time trial in Valladolid.
Afterwards, the peloton will continue advancing towards the west of Castilla y León to visit the Laguna Negra de Vinuesa, in Soria, with another uphill finish line.
Ausbique and Tourmalet
Zaragoza will make the last call to the sprinters before the Vuelta enters the Pyrenees to live two tough mountain stages, Tour days, first with the day that begins in Formigal and ends in Tourmalet, and with Portalet, Aubisque, Soulor and Spandelles on the menu. There will be 4,000 meters of accumulated unevenness.
The second chapter of the Pyrenees will be another bone between Sauvaterre de Béarn and Larra-Belagua, an unprecedented peak. Two special category passes are included, the Col de Hourciére and Larrau. The route between Pamplona and Lekunberri will join the day before the second and last day of rest.
With the legs punished by the climbs and the kilometres, the last week promises to be explosive. After the new summit of Bejes, in Cantabria, the Vuelta enters sacred territory, with none other than Angliru as the first great protagonist.
La Colladiella and el Cordal will be the appetizer before reaching the top of the Spanish cycling Olympus. As a novelty, the Principality of Asturias will premiere another of its hidden jewels, the Alto de la Cruz de Linares, as it did in 2022 with the Collau Fancuaya.
Going down the mountain there will be a last breath for the peloton and the sprinters between La Bañeza and Íscar, as long as the wind allows it.
The die will almost be cast, but the Vuelta will not be resolved because the organization has prepared a monumental “classic” of 208 kilometers between Manzanares el Real and Guadarrama that includes 10 ports, all third class, which are repeated, such as La Cruz Verde, La On and Robledondo, among them. This time the great ports of Madrid will not be there, but the stage will be a guarantee of emotion.
The triumphal ride for the winner will be on September 27 in Madrid after 100 km between the Hipódromo de La Zarzuela and the capital. Together with Cibeles, the organization expects illustrious names to get on the podium and wear the red, a garment held by the Belgian Remco Evenepoel. Spanish cycling has an important appointment to confirm the takeoff that Enric Mas, Juan Ayuso and Carlos Rodríguez signed up for in 2022.
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🛣 4 flat stages and 2 flat with high-altitude finales / 4 flat stages and 2 flat with high-altitude finales
⛰ 13 medium and high mountain stages / 13 hilly and mountain stages
⏱ 1 CRI & 1 CRE / 1TTT & 1 ITT
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