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The Tour de France 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

Now we're getting closer to the start of the Tour de France 2019, as usual, velowire.com allows you to discover all the tiny details of the race route of the 106th edition of the Grande Boucle, with all the routes drawn on interactive maps with Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

With the information available in this publication, you'll get to know all the routes, the visited cities and villages and it will thus allow you to prepare your visit of the race if you're among one of the 12 million people watching the race on the side of the road, or simply better understand the race if you're not one of these happy "few"!

Some preliminary information ...

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

With the Tour of Italy behind us, it is now time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 start from the Cantal department and more precisely from the city Aurillac. This will be the 71th edition of this race which is considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation race for the Tour de France (the organisor of the race now by the way even uses the subtitle "on the way to the Tour de France by the way; others will prefer the Tour of Switzerland which will start on 15 June) and it is made up of 8 stages of which one will be an individual time trial (the 4th stage, in the middle of the week) for a total distance of 1202.1 kilometers.

Let's now look in detail the different stages of this Critérium du Dauphiné 2019 with the race routes ...

The Tour of Italy 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

Tomorrow, on Saturday 11 May 2019, the Giro d'Italia 2019 will start in Bologna with an individual time trial. The 102th edition of the Tour of Italy, which celebrates in 2019 its 110th anniversary, is made up of 21 stages of which three will be individual time trials (the 1st, 9th and 21st stage) for a total distance of 3,576.8 kilometers. 7 stages will have a mountain top finish while 5 stages will take place in the higher mountains and 7 in the medium mountains.

Let's now look in detail all stages of this Tour of Italy 2019 with the maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

The Giro d'Italia 2019 race route on Open Street Maps

1/ Saturday 11 May 2019 - Bologna > Bologna - individual time trial - 8 km

The Paris-Nice 2019 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

The 77th edition of Paris-Nice which starts this Sunday is made up of 8 stages (of which 1 time trial) for a total distance of 1,207.5 km visiting a total of 11 departments (the Gard department is the one which benefits of the shortest visit of only a few kilometers during the time trial on Thursday) and containing no less than 24 climbs, including the Col de Turini on the queen stage on Saturday.

In this article, you'll find the usual presentation of the Paris-Nice 2019 race route with maps on Open Street Maps/Google Earth.

Let's now have a detailed look on the 8 stages of this Paris-Nice:

1/ Sunday 10 March 2019 - Saint-Germain-en-Laye > Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 138.5 km

The race route of the first stages of the Tour de France 2019 on Open Street Maps/Google Earth

As usual, we'll have to wait until June before we get to know all the details about the race route of the different stages of the Tour de France 2019. Well, that is .. not for all of them, because the race route of the two stages which make up the Grand Départ of the 106th Tour, in Brussels in Belgium, is already known now!

You might have beebn waiting for it since the official announcement of the Tour de France 2019 stages, the maps with the detailed race route of the first Tour de France 2019 stages are finally available here!

The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2019

The Tour de France 2018 race route in Google Maps/Google Earth, time- and route schedules and stage profiles

As usual, velowire.com offers you the detail of the race route of the 105th edition of the "Grande Boucle", with all the routes on Google Maps/Google Earth, at a little bit less than one week of the start of the Tour de France 2018.

With all the information you find in this article you'll know all small details, all cities and villages which will be visited by this Tour and it'll thus allow you to prepare your visit on the roads of the Tour if you get the chance to be part of the 12 millions of spectators on the side of the road, or simply get a better understanding of the race if you're not there!

A little bit of information ...

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2018 race route on Google Maps/Google Earth, the time- and route schedules, profiles and maps

This Sunday 3 June, the 70th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné starts in Valence. 153 riders will get to start the race with a solo effort for the prologue of the 2018 edition of the race and 7 other stages will be awaiting them afterwards. Over a total of 958.6 kilometers, they'll see that especially the second half of the week will be decisive in this race, with important mountain parts in the stages.

In this article you'll find the maps, profiles and time- and route schedule of each of these stages, the maps of course being on Google Maps/Google Earth as you're used to find on velowire.com!

THe Critérium du Dauphiné 2018's race route on Google Maps

P/ Sunday 3 June 2018 - Valence > Valence - 6.6 km

Paris-Roubaix 2018: its race route, cobble stones sections and other details of the Hell of the North

The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2018, will take place this Sunday. For the 116th edition of the race, the organisor decided to slightly modify last year's race route: the start has been modified, as well as the first cobble stones sections, with for example the comeback of the Saint-Python section. We still have the same number of cobble stones sections (29) but the total distance on cobbles is a little bit lower than last year, 54.5 kilometers instead of 55. The total number of kilometers of the race remains identical, 257 kilometers, but that's also due to the fact that the kilometer 0 of the race is a bit further from the start location!

In the Hell of the North, any small detail can however come disturb the race for one of the riders or maybe the contrary, help another rider. So, nothing's sure beforehand: Sunday, everything will be decided on the cobbles ... with the Quick-Step riders being t ...