La Vuelta

La Vuelta

La Vuelta ciclista a España (Tour of Spain in English), also known as La Vuelta is a stage cycling race created in 1935 by the newspaper Informaciones following the successes of the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, both created by newspapers (L’Auto and La Gazzetta dello Sport)

Considered as the third most important cycling race in the world, La Vuelta is part of the Grand Tours trio with the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia. Like them, La Vuelta introduced a leader’s jersey with a special colour, red.

A young and ambitious team ready to take on La Vuelta !

It is with a with a young and offensive team based around Lenny Martinez and Romain Grégoire that the Groupama-FDJ cycling team will set off from Barcelona to join Madrid, some 3,153 km further on. This edition of La Vuelta 2023 will be marked by mythical arrivals, one in France, at the top of the Tourmalet, the other at the top of the Angliru and its terrible 24% passages.

Étape 1 (TTT) – Barcelona > Barcelona – 14,8 km – august, 26th
Étape 2 – Mataró > Barcelona – 182km – august, 27th
Étape 3 – Súria > Arinsal. Andorra – 158,5 km – august, 28th
Étape 4 – Andorra la Vella.Andorra > Tarragona – 183.5km – august, 29th
Étape 5 – Morella > Burriana – 186.5 km – august, 30th
Étape 6 – La Vall d’Uixó > Pico del Buitre. Observatorio Astrofísico de Javalambre – 183.5 km – august, 31st
Étape 7 – Utiel  > Oliva – 201 km – september, 1st
Étape 8 – Dénia > Xorret de Catí. Costa Blanca Interior – 165 km – september, 2nd
Étape 9 – Cartagena > Collado de la Cruz de Caravaca – 184,5 km – september, 3rd
Étape 10 (ITT) – Valladolid > Valladolid – 25,8 km – september, 5th
Étape 11 – Lerma > La Laguna Negra.Vinuesa – 163,5 km – september, 6th
Étape 12 – Ólvega > Zaragoza – 151 km – september, 7th
Étape 13 – Formigal. Huesca la Magia > Col du Tourmalet – 135km – september, 8th
Étape 14 – Sauveterre-de-Béarn > Larra-Belagua – 156,5 km – september, 9th
Étape 15 – Pamplona > Lekunberri – 158,5 km – september, 10th
Étape 16 – Liencres Playa > Bejes – 120,5 km – september, 12th
Étape 17 – Ribadesella / Ribeseya > Altu de L’Angliru – 124,5 km – september, 13th
Étape 18 – Pola de Allande > La Cruz de Linares – 179 km – september, 14th
Étape 19 – La Bañeza > Íscar – 177,5 km – september, 15th
Étape 20 – Manzanares El Real > Guadarrama – 208 km – september, 16th
Étape 21  – Hipódromo de la Zarzuela > Madrid – 96,7 km – september, 17th