9,680,000.00 euros (including VAT). This is the price that the Barcelona city hall pay for The ‘Gran Départ’ of the Tour de France starts in the Catalan capital in the month of July 2026 with three phases. Barcelona city council awarded the company that owns the Tour de France, Amaury Sports Organization (ASO)The ‘Gran Départ’ 2026 of the 113th edition of the Tour de France from the Catalan capital.
A rate where the sports councilor of the Barcelona council David Escude has been referred to on several occasions since the departure of the Tour 2026 from the city of Barcelona. “We are preparing an edition of the Tour de France that marks before and after the history of cycling and the race itself, both for the presentation of the race and for the three stages that will take place in Barcelona,” explained Escudé. in MD, to add, “We want people to talk about cycling, so that citizens feel that the Tour de France is theirs and their life, in a city with a great cycling tradition and where the bicycle is present in the daily life of many people”.
The development of the stages remains to be defined, but everything indicates that the magical mountain of Montjuïc will play a prominent role in one of the three stages that the ‘Grande Boucle’ will take place on Barcelona soil in 2026. Another stage is also planned to be held in province of Barcelona and a third headed to France to continue test development. Some details that the MD may advance will begin to be known in more detail towards the months of February and March.
The Bilbao precedent
Barcelona will become the third Spanish city to host the start of the Tour de France, then San Sebastian and Bilbao and we must return in 2009 to revive the magic of the Tour in the Catalan capital, which will be the fourth time that the Tour has had a presence in the city of Barcelona after 1957, 1965 and 2009.
It should be noted that ‘the Grand Départ Pays Basque 2023’ It has a final budget of 12.2 million euros, 200,000 euros more than previously planned, and which generated an impact of 103.9 million euros on the economy of The Basque Country.
Source: La Verdad
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