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The Spanish Grand Tour\u2019s 78th edition will start in Barcelona on Saturday, the 26th of August and will finish in Madrid on the 17th of September. We\u2019ll visit three countries throughout the three weeks: Spain, Andorra and France. Its 21 stages will include 12 brand new departures and eight unprecedented finish-lines. The cyclists will face ten high-altitude finales, five of which are new to La Vuelta, two time trials, seven mountain stages, six mid-mountain stages, four flat stages and two flat stages with high-altitude finales. One for the climbers? Definitely\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For the second time in its history, the Spanish tour will take off from Barcelona. The city will host an urban team time trial as its first stage and the second stage will depart from Matar\u00f3 and arrive in Barcelona once again, in front of the Llu\u00eds Companys Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we looked at Barcelona, we took into account four essential pillars that define the city and fit in perfectly with La Vuelta\u2019s own philosophy: sports, sustainability, tradition and innovation. As a large cycling event, those four characteristics are extremely important to us,\u201d said<\/a> Javier Guill\u00e9n, General Director of La Vuelta.<\/p>\n

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Following the two initial finish-lines in Barcelona, the peloton will then head to Andorra from S\u00faria to experience the race\u2019s first mountain stage. The Principality will host La Vuelta 23\u2019s first brand new high-altitude finale with a climb of Arinsal. The riders will sleep in Andorra before heading South from Andorra La Vella towards Tarragona in order to conclude the race\u2019s initial Catalan and Andorran journey.<\/p>\n

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The Autonomous Community of Valencia will be the star of the next phase of La Vuelta. The riders will ride through the Province of Castell\u00f3n in a mid-mountain stage between Morella and Burriana. The Castell\u00f3n locality of La Vall d\u2019Uix\u00f3 will be the starting point for the next stage, heading to Teruel, with the final climb up to the Observatorio Astrof\u00edsico de Javalambre as the day\u2019s main attraction.<\/p>\n

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The race\u2019s first flat stage will take place on the 7th day, with a finale that will benefit the sprinters at Oliva. The peloton will then bid farewell to the Autonomous Community of Valencia with a finale along the Costa Blanca, on a summit that is already well-known to the riders: Xorret de Cat\u00ed.<\/p>\n<\/lite-youtube>\n

As a final challenge to end the week before the rest day, the Region of Murcia will put the riders to the test with a stage beginning at the coast, in Cartagena, heading inland towards the finish-line in Caravaca de la Cruz.<\/p>\n

The second week of competing will begin in the Province of Valladolid with a 25-kilometre individual time trial. The peloton will then continue its route towards Castilla y Le\u00f3n\u2019s West, in order to visit the Laguna Negra in Vinuesa. Zaragoza will provide sprinters will a final opportunity before heading to the Pyrenees for two challenging mountain stages: Aubisque and Tourmalet first, and Issarbe, Larrau and Larra-Belagua on the second day \u2013 two stages that will play a deciding role within the race. Pamplona and Lekunberri will host the stage before the second and final rest day.<\/p>\n

\u201cMountains are a part of La Vuelta\u2019s DNA and will make the 2023 edition very exciting, yet again,\u201d said Guill\u00e9n. \u201cThe Tourmalet will be a landmark in the history of our race and will be this year\u2019s great colossus, along with the Angliru. We continue searching for new summits in order to showcase great cycling and it is in this search that we discovered new finales at Larra-Belagua, Cruz de Linares and Bejes, and such mountain passes as Larrau and Issarbe,\u201d explains the race\u2019s General Director.<\/p>\n

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The demanding nature of the race will not diminish in the last week of racing as, following the unprecedented high-altitude finale in Bejes, will be La Vuelta\u2019s great colossus: L\u2019Angliru. The Principality of Asturias will, once again, be the judge of the race with its unprecedented high-altitude finale in Cruz de Linares, as was the case in 2022 with the Coll\u00e1u Fancuaya.<\/p>\n

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The Castilian wind may play an important role on the way to \u00cdscar, giving sprinters their opportunity before arriving in Madrid. The second-last linear stage will be held in the Guadarrama Basin in a \u201cclassic\u201d stage format, featuring 10 3rd category climbs that will determine La Vuelta\u2019s final overall winner before the traditional final stage in Madrid.<\/p>\n

As a former racer and multiple Vuelta podium finisher, Joaquim Rodr\u00edguez observed<\/a> for CyclingNews <\/em>when the route was presented in Barcelona on Tuesday evening, “there’s a mid-race time trial in Valladolid, but I don’t think it’ll be tough enough to change the overall outcome in favour of the climbers.”<\/p>\n

Who would you favour then? Will Remco Evenepoel return and triumph? What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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