The Cycling Tour in Catalonia You have identified all the locations on your route 103rd edition, to be held between March 18 and 24, 2024. The best cyclists in the world will once again compete on the Catalan roads in an edition that promises a great spectacle, with three high finishes, unprecedented places and long-awaited returns.
The historic Catalan UCI World Tour race will have seven stages full of new features between Sant Feliu de Guíxols and Barcelona, on a route that has already been determined after the announcements were made in all areas for route of this 2024 edition.
Route of the 103rd Volta a Catalunya:
Stage 1. Monday, March 18: Sant Feliu de Guíxols – Sant Feliu de Guíxols.
Stage 2. Tuesday, March 19: Mataró – Vallter / Setcases (Vall de CamprodÓn)
Stage 3. Wednesday, March 20: Sant Joan de les Abadesses – Port Ainé (Pallars Sobirà)
Stage 4. Thursday, March 21: Sorting (Turisme Pallars Sobirà) – Lleida
Stage 5. Friday, March 22: Altafulla – Viladecans
Stage 6. Saturday, March 23: Berga – Queralt
Stage 7. Sunday, March 24: Barcelona – Barcelona
The 103rd edition of the Volta will once again have three high finishes for the second consecutive year, and the Generalitat de Catalunya Railway stations of Vallter and Port Ainé will be joined by Queralt, from Bergadan, which will take place in the penultimate that day of the race.. Thus, the test will discover unprecedented places in its history such as the sanctuary of Queralt and Viladecans, which will host the stage finishes, and Altafulla, which will be the main character at the start of the stage .
There will also be highly anticipated returns such as those from Berga, which will be a starting stage after six decades of the last visit, Lleida, which will return to the front door with a stage finish eleven years later, or the departure from Sort and Sant Joan de les Abadesses.
With well-known places such as the grand start from Sant Feliu de Guíxols, the iconic final stage in Barcelona and a stage start from Mataró, the test route is completed for another year. As in the last edition, three top finishes will make the Volta one of the toughest stage events on the calendar of the world cycling elite.
For the third year in a row, Sant Feliu de Guíxols will be the city that will host the grand start of the race, as the start and end of the first stage, in addition to hosting all the pre-race preparations. Last season, Primoz Roglic ended with a victory in Sant Feliu in the first chapter of his particular rivalry with Remco Evenepoel that led him to the final victory.
Mataró will start the stage for the eighth time in the last decade, on the second day that will take the cyclists to the top of the Vallter station, which will be the first of the three high finishes of this edition. This will be the eighth final of the Volta stage in the cycling arena of Catalonia, which in the last edition was won by the Italian Giulio Ciccone in an exciting final against Primoz Roglic and Remco Evenepoel.
The second stage of the mountain will not last long and it will be on the third day, which will connect Sant Joan de les Abadesses, which will return to the route fifty years after its last and only presence, with the Pallaresa mountain station of Port Ainé, which became the protagonist on the race route for the last time in 2021, with the victory of the Colombian Esteban Chaves.
The great novelty of Berga and Queralt
The fourth stage will leave Sort, the capital of Pallars Sobirà, a town where there was a stage arrival in 1976, to finish in the city of Lleida, a long-awaited return to one of the historic headquarters of the Volta a Catalunya, currently since the first edition and which has not hosted a stage since 2013. And after today’s news, the fifth stage will not decrease, because it will bring together two unprecedented places in history of the event: it will start in the Tarragona town of Altafulla and end in Viladecans, a municipality linked to the Volta in the last edition with an intermediate sprint in the seventh stage.
One of the great novelties will be experienced on Saturday, thanks to a stage that is expected to be full of intense emotions with absolute popularity in the Berguedà region. The stage will start from the capital, Berga, which has not been on the Volta route since 1959, and will end with the third high-altitude arrival of this edition in Queralt, which will make its debut in the Catalan race. A real mountain day that promises a great show of sport, scenery and entertainment to be one of the main stages of the race, which will close on Sunday where the traditional stage starts and ends in the city of Barcelona.
Once again, Barcelona will decide a race that will reunite the best cyclists in the world for a week on the Catalan roads, aiming to replace the last winner, the Slovenian. Primoz Roglic, one of the best cyclists of the last decade. All details about the route, such as the mileage, gradient or mountain passes of the stages will be explained in the official presentation of the race.
Source: La Verdad
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