Here, the Santa Cristina pass returns to the Giro for the first time since 1999, on the way to Aprica. Riders will spend the first two stages of this week, after their day's rest, climbing the tough mountains of the Dolomites.
The final week ends with three mountain stages, and one hilly, flat, and time trial stage apiece. During the next stage, stage 15, riders will spend 46km of the last 80 ascending.
The final two days of this week will be tough, where there will be a series of difficult climbs on the hilly stage from Santena to Torino. The Cueno plain will ensure the peloton moves quickly towards the sprint finish at the end of this race. The final three climbs of this hilly stage concludes the race with what will be a whittled-down group of riders.Īfterwards, a route from Sanremo to Cueno heads in the opposite direction to the 2020 summertime Milan-San Remo.
Following this, a race from Parma to Genova will see plenty of breakaways and a stretched-out peloton. The route begins to head further north at this point, and a flat stage facilitates this towards Reggio Emilia. However, it will become slightly hillier as they head further inland, meaning only a select group of riders will be battling for the stage win. The 10th stage of the Giro will see a fairly simple start for the peloton, with the first stage flat along the eastern coast of Italy for half of the route. Following the conclusion of this race, the riders will have their second day off of the Giro as the leader of the pink jersey becomes clearer. The week ends with an arduous mountain stage from Isernia to Blockhaus, which features double-digit gradients and the same finish as 2017. The day after there is a hilly stage from Diamante to Potenza, before a circuit around Naples will see the riders hit plenty of undulating climbs. By this time the riders will have vacated Sicily and started heading further north, finishing the second of the flat stages at Scalea, the Riviera dei Cedri. Two flat stages follow the opening mountain race, and gives the sprinters more chances to earn an early win on the tour. It's not an easy start either, with a difficult mountain stage from Avola to Etna awaiting the riders, which includes a 14km final ascent. The peloton arrives in Sicily for the first Italian stage of the tour after a day's break, following the opening in Hungary. The Grande Partenza ends with a 201km route from Kaposvár to Balatonfüred, taking in the sea of Hungary, Lake Balaton, which is where the race's first bunch sprint is expected to take place. Partly on cobblestones, the final climb contains peaks of 14 per cent, with the finish line in Buda Square. The route follows a city circuit from Pest to the historical centre of Buda. The first maglia rosa will be awarded at the end of an increasingly narrow sprint.ĭay two signals the turn of the powerhouses, with the second stage consisting of a 9.2km time trial. The Giro will begin on May 6 with a slightly undulating, largely flat 195km route from Budapest to Visegrád. This is the 14th time that the Giro has started outside of Italy, and is the first time that a Grand Tour has visited Hungary, with the country set to host the opening three stages of the tour. Budapest in Hungary will host the Grande Partenza of the 105th Giro d'Italia, after missing out on the chance to do so in 2020 due to the pandemic.