The Cycling Tour in Catalonia It will have a new headquarters during its 103rd edition. The Altafulla City Council and the organization of the historic Catalan race have closed an agreement for the Tarragona municipality to host the stage start next 2024 in the Catalan race, which will be held from March 18 to 24.
Altafulla is a town of about 5,600 inhabitants in Tarragonès, like an island between the conurbation of Barcelona, Tarragona and the mass tourism of lto Costa Daurada. Well preserved and respectful of its protected environment, Altafulla enjoys a leisure offer located just minutes away and the tranquility of an ideal place to live, work, visit and have fun.
For the first time in its history, the municipality will enjoy in its territory the presence of the best cyclists and teams in the world, who annually participate in the Volta, the third oldest stage event in the world after the Tour. de France and the Giro d’Italia.
“We are very happy that Altafulla hosts for the first time a start of the Volta a Catalunya, one of the most important cycling events in the international calendar and which has the participation of most of the best cyclists of the moment. This will be a great showcase to show our municipality to the whole world,” said the co-mayor of Altafulla, Jordi Molinera.
He Sports councilor, Alex Cañas, highlighted that “it is a great pleasure that Altafulla can host the start of a sporting event as important as the Volta a Catalunya.” “This is a work that we have already started in the previous mandate, when there was already the will to bring this event closer to the population. We took the opportunity to contact the organization after some teams stayed in municipal hotels, where the City Council and facilitated their stay. After this period of previous work, now it is a fact that Altafulla will be the headquarters of a Volta departure,” said the councilor. So, with this commitment from the sports area, to deseasonalize sports events and bet on sports tourism as another claim to enhance the “Altafulla” brand, the population will certainly be the center of attention in weekend that will signal the start of the Easter Holidays. “This is an opportunity for people to get closer to the population, enjoy this excursion and at the same time get to know Altafulla with its people, its history and its commercial fabric,” concluded the councilor.
“It is an honor to welcome Altafulla to the Volta route. After more than a hundred editions of the race, the constant discovery of new places, such as Altafulla next 2024, is a sign that the Volta a Catalunya continues to grow. The municipality will have the best cyclists in the world at home and that is a privilege,” he assured. Rubèn Peris, president of Volta Ciclista and Catalunya Associació Esportiva.
Residents and fans will enjoy the infrastructure of a world-class race and the presence of the best cyclists in the world, who will star in all the events leading up to a stage start and the start of the stage in Altafulla.
The Cycling Tour in Catalonia It is a centenary cycling race that is fully integrated with the elite of the cycling world, within the calendar UCI World Tour. In this way, the event has the specific presence of the 18 best cycling teams in the world and an impressive international media diffusion, bringing images of the race to television in 190 countries and five continents, through of 33 international journalists.
In this way, the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya will have a new attraction on the 2024 route with an unprecedented start stage from Altafulla. A new detail has been confirmed for the route of the 103rd edition of the test, which will leave from Sant Feliu de Guíxols and bring the world’s best cyclists to Catalonia between March 18 and 24, seeking to replace the last winner, the Slovenian Primoz Roglic.
Source: La Verdad
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