The Basque Country will be the protagonist this Thursday, the 27th, in the presentation in Paris of the 2023 Tour de France routea race that starts on July 1 from Bilbao and runs its first three days in the Basque lands.
On a note, the organization of the great French race through the stages is pleased to have in the ceremony of the presentation of the route next year in the presence of representatives of the Basque institutions led by the Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu,
The Tour, which will be 120 years old in what will be its 110th edition, recalled that “it will leave again in the Basque Country 31 years later that it was made from Donostia/San Sebastián in 1992″ and that “it will host three stages on July 1, 2 and 3 that will cover the most famous roads of this country”.
The first of them, leaving from Bilbao, next to the Guggenheim Museumwill feature “the most mountainous route presented on an opening day of the grand gala round”.
It will be “a demanding circular stage of 185 km through the Biscayan territory with more than 3,320 meters of accumulated elevation gain that will pass through emblematic places such as Gernika or San Juan de Gaztelugatxe, the last ” scene of the seventh season of the series ‘Game of Thrones’ “.
The second stage will take runners from Vitoria to the “sophisticated and elegant city” of San Sebastián, “christened Le Petit Paris”, according to the Tour organization.
A journey of 210 km. “less demanding” than the first stage and that he “will lead the peloton to the heights of Udana, Aztiria and Alkiza to face Jaizkibel on the opposite slope in the typical Clásica de San Sebastián”.
That is, for the slope of “10 kms. of the route at 4.6% of the average that will end unevenly in the selection of the race” before the finish line in the capital of Gipuzkoa.
The starting point of the third phase, the last through the Basque lands, is knownthe Biscayan town of Amorebieta, but not the finish line, which “will be announced at the presentation ceremony on Thursday.”
It is known that “it will end up in the Basque-French territory after crossing 80 km along the coastal roads through the beautiful coastal towns of Lekeitio, Ondarroa, Zarautz”, “Sebastián, Hondarribia and Irun” itself.
Finally, the Tour highlights “The Basque Country as the cradle of cycling” where “tradition and authenticity” come together. “It is considered one of the world’s cradles of cycling, with a great tradition and cycling hobby and a group of professionals such as Marino Lejarreta, Julián Gorospe, Abraham Olano, Mikel Landa, Ane Santesteban or Joane Somarriba (winner of three Tours de France and two Giros d’Italia), in addition to historic teams such as Kas and Euskaltel Euskadi”, he emphasized.
Source: La Verdad
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