This is the track for the Giro d’Italia 2021
Wed Feb 24, 2021 at 4:45 pm
The 2021 Giro d’Italia race track has been revealed by the organizing company RCS. The Italian Grand Tour begins in Turin with a 9km time trial and ends again three weeks later with an anticlockwise stage. On the final day, riders individually ride a 29.4-kilometer time trial from Senago to Milan.
It was already known that the Giro would stay in the Piedmont region for the first three days. On the way, the memory of, among other things, the death of the Italian poet and writer Dante Alighieri was commemorated this year for 700 years. Stage 13 takes Peloton in his memory from Ravenna, where Alighieri is buried, to Verona.
Rumors that the Italy tour will hit the streets of Strade Bianche this year are true. The eleventh stage (with 2,200 vertical meters) moves from Perugia to Montalcino and has several unpaved divisions in the final stage. One day later, the start will be where you finish Strade Bianche. Siena’s Piazza del Campo is the starting point for a trip to Bagno di Romagna, which is dedicated to former cyclists Alfredo Martini and Gino Bartale.
Monte Zoncolan complete in 2018 – Photo: Cor Vos
Zoncolan at Passo Pardoi
The first five-star stage in Giro 2021 will be Monte Zoncolan on May 22. The legendary ascent was the last time on the tour in 2018, when Chris Fromm won. Zoncolan is one of the toughest rises in Europe, due to the gradient averaging over 10%, with peaks well above 20%. This year it will rise from Sotrio.
The highest mountain in version 104 of the Giro d’Italia, also called Sima Kobe, Is Passo Pardoi, with its summit at 2,239 meters above sea level. Pardoi is part of the Dolomite Theater to the Cortina d’Ampezzo on the penultimate weekend. Passo Fedaia and Passo Giau are also included in that mountainous stage.
Slovenia and Switzerland
Incidentally, the Pink Circus also makes two short trips outside the country. Stage 15 from Grado to Gorizia partially crosses the Slovenian territory, but ends on the Italian side of the border. The penultimate stage from Verbania to Valle Spluga / Alp Motta passes largely through Switzerland.
As for the rest, Giro would remain mainly in northern and central Italy. Guardia Sanframundi in Benevento County, last place on Stage 8, is the southerly point on that lap.
Giro d’Italia 2021 (8-30 months)
Travel schedule
May 08 – Stage 1: Turin – Turin (9.0 km, ITT) **
May 09 – Stage 2: Stubengy – Novara (173 km, 600 meters vertical) **
10 mei – Etappe 3: Biella – Canale (187 km, 2100 cm) ***
11 months – Etappe 4: Piacenza – Cestola (186 km, 1.800 cm) ***
12Mi – Etape 5: Modena – Cattolica (171 km, 300 cm) *
13 mei – Etappe 6: Frasassi Caves – Ascoli Piceno (150 km, 3,400 cm) ***
14 mei – Etappe 7: Notaresco – Termoli (178 km, 1500 ha) **
15 mei – Etappe 8: Foggia – Sanframondi Guard (173 km, 3,400 cm) ***
16 mei – Etappe 9: Castel di Sangro – Campo Felice (160 km, 3400 cm) ****
17 mei – Etappe 10: L’Aquila, Foligno (140 km, 1.300 cm) **
May 18 – Rest Day
19 mei – Etappe 11: Perugia – Montalcino (163 km, 2,200 mm) ****
20 mei – Etappe 12: Siena – Bagno di Romagna (209 km, 3.700 cm) ***
May 21 – Stage 13: Ravenna – Verona (197 km, 200 cm) *
22 mi – Etape 14: Citadella – Monte Zonkolan (205 km, 3.700 cm) *****
23 mei – Etappe 15: Grado – Gorizia (145 km, 1.800 cm) ***
24 mei – Etappe 16: Sacile – Cortina d’Ampezzo (212 km, 5,700 cm) *****
May 25 – Rest Day
May 26 – Step 17: Canazi – Sega de Ala (193 km, 3400 cm) ****
27 mei – Etappe 18: Rovereto – Stradella (228 km, 600 hm) **
28 mei – Etappe 19: Abbiategrasso – Alpe di Mera / Valsesia (178 km, 3,400 hm) ****
29 mei – Etappe 20: Verbania – Valle Spluga / Alpe Motta (164 km, 4200 cm) *****
May 30 – Stage 21: Senago – Milan (29.4 km, ITT) ***
Total: 3,450.4 kilometers, 46,900 meters vertical
