This summer the return leaving the city of Barcelona 61 years later and the Catalan city council has not hidden its interest so that the Tour de France back to Barcelona and welcome to ‘Grand Exit’. Last January the first deputy mayor of Barcelona, Jaume Collboninow mayor, and the sports councilor of the Barcelona city council, David EscudéThey have met him Tour Director Christian Prudhomme in performance of La Vuelta at the Palau de la Música Catalana.
now, taking advantage of the start of the Tour de France in Bilbao, a delegation from the Barcelona City Council met again with prudhomme and the DOG CEO, organizing the Tour company, to continue strengthening ties, and also to Bilbao City Hall to check ‘in situ’ the requirements that a mega event like Tour de France requires a city, in this case Bilbao.
On his return, Escudé assured MD that “the international dimension given by the Tour to Bilbao and the Basque Country is incalculable. Indeed, the Tour de France It’s an event of great importance, of great scale, and the response from the fans has been amazing, you just have to see the number of people on the streets and along the route”.
The sports councilor of the Barcelona city council clarified to the MD that “in the Tour de Frania and in the big sporting events we are looking for the position of Barcelona as the world capital of sport”.
Source: La Verdad
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