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The Tour de Romandie is a stage race held in late April and tours the French speaking areas of Switzerland.
The Tour de Romandie is a stage race which is part of the UCI ProTour. It runs in the old Romandie region, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. It began in 1947, to coincide with the 50-year celebration of the Union Cycliste Suisse.
The race traditionally starts with an individual time trial prologue in Geneva and ends with another individual time-trial in the hilly terrains in Lausanne. The final time-trial traditionally starts in the stadium north of Lausanne, goes downhill southwards to the Lac Léman (Lake Geneva), and makes its way back uphill to the stadium again.
The parcours of the race usually winds northwards towards the Jura mountains and Alpine mountain ranges of western Switzerland.
