{"id":195734,"date":"2024-05-17T06:52:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=195734"},"modified":"2024-05-17T06:52:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:52:32","slug":"monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht Club de Monaco. An agreement was signed by H.E. Pierre Dartout, Minister of State of the Principality, Yann Le Moenner, CEO of Amaury Sport Organisation, and Javier Guill\u00e9n, General Director of La Vuelta, in the presence of H.S.H Prince Albert II of Monaco. <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 81st edition of the race will thus have an international Grand Departure, continuing the tradition set by previous starts in Portugal, the Netherlands, and France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc4b\ud83d\ude0e MONACO \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde8<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udd95 Monaco will host the gran departure of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LaVuelta26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LaVuelta26<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udef3\ufe0f M\u00f3naco ser\u00e1 sede de la salida oficial de La Vuelta 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yTw2IIYs0U\">pic.twitter.com\/yTw2IIYs0U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; La Vuelta (@lavuelta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lavuelta\/status\/1791054114857639943?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The race\u2019s inaugural stage will take place entirely within Monaco\u2019s territory, which will also host the start of La Vuelta 2026\u2019s second stage. This marks another international Grand Departure for La Vuelta, following those held in Lisbon (1997), Assen (2009), N\u00eemes (2017), and Utrecht (2022). In 2024, the race will include stages in Lisbon, Oeiras, and Cascais.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco&#8217;s selection for the Grand Departure in 2026 adds to its history of hosting major sporting events. In cycling, Monaco organized the Grand D\u00e9part of the Tour de France in 2009 and will play a key role again by hosting the final time-trial between Monaco and Nice during the last stage of the Tour de France 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Monaco is renowned for hosting significant international events, including the Festival Internacional du Cirque de Monte-Carlo and the Monaco Formula One Grand Prix, one of the world\u2019s premier sporting events that attracts global superstars from sports and celebrity circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":193774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[7810,4503,479],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-195734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2026-la-vuelta","tag-javier-guillen","tag-la-vuelta","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-05-17T06:52:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"990\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"660\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"tereza\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Monica Buck\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/\",\"name\":\"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta - \u0160koda We Love Cycling\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-05-17T06:52:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926\"},\"description\":\"Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp\",\"width\":990,\"height\":660,\"caption\":\"2023 La Vuelta\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/\",\"name\":\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\",\"description\":\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling magazine\",\"alternateName\":\"\u0160koda WLC\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926\",\"name\":\"tereza\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"tereza\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/author\/tereza\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta - \u0160koda We Love Cycling","description":"Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta","og_description":"Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht","og_url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/","og_site_name":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling","article_published_time":"2024-05-17T06:52:32+00:00","og_image":[{"width":990,"height":660,"url":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp","type":"image\/webp"}],"author":"tereza","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Monica Buck","Est. reading time":"2"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/","name":"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta - \u0160koda We Love Cycling","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp","datePublished":"2024-05-17T06:52:32+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926"},"description":"Monaco has been officially announced as the host for the Grand Departure of La Vuelta 2026. This exciting news was confirmed during an event at the Yacht","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp","contentUrl":"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2023\/08\/2022-Vuelta-profimedia-0721049274-CVR.webp","width":990,"height":660,"caption":"2023 La Vuelta"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2024\/05\/17\/monaco-will-host-the-grand-departure-of-2026-la-vuelta\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Monaco Will Host the Grand Departure of 2026 La Vuelta"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/","name":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling","description":"\u0160koda We Love Cycling magazine","alternateName":"\u0160koda WLC","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/50f01ecd18718d2333cf72e823c4f926","name":"tereza","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1f9eb71be33845f0afabce3791bc1c58ecdb0a25c62964987e5dbcf7a20d2ec7?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"tereza"},"url":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/author\/tereza\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195735,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195734\/revisions\/195735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195734"},{"taxonomy":"global-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/global-categories?post=195734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}