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The Tour de France doesn't visit the whole of France? In fact it does, over time! - the historical map with the Tour de France parcours

Every time the route of the Tour de France is presented, the same comments are made in France, especially by residents of areas ignored by the upcoming edition: "The Tour never goes this way or that way."


But that's not quite true: even if there are areas that the Tour de France visits less often than others, all regions of France, and even all departements, have featured on the route of the Grande Boucle over the years.

Of course, this is easy to say but more difficult to verify, which is why velowire has created a map of the Tour de France routes over the last 16 years (2008-2023) on Open Street Maps. Every year, the complete route of the new edition of the Grande Boucle ...

The Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, the stage profiles and time- and route schedules

With the Giro d'Italia (and its last-minute denouement with the victory of Primož Roglič [Jumbo-Visma]) now behind us, it's already time to see the Critérium du Dauphiné 2023 set off from the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and more precisely from Chambon-sur-Lac in the Puy-de-Dôme département.


This will be the 75th edition of the race, considered by some riders as the ultimate preparation for the Tour de France with its "mountain concentration" (others will prefer the Tour de Suisse which starts on June 11) and, as usual, it consists of 8 stages including an individual time trial (stage 4, in the middle of the week, which is likely to have a major impact on the overall race classification) for a total distance of 1212.2 ...

The Tour of Italy 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, stage profiles and time- and route schedules

The Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2023 race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, the race profile and the time- and route schedule

The very first edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège took place in 1892. It is therefore quite logical that the race was given the nickname La Doyenne. That was thus over 130 years ago already and this year it's the 109th edition of the Belgian classic which will take place between Liège, Bastogne and ... Liège (the race had its finish in Ans from 1992 till 2018 but since 2019 it again takes place in Liège). You can read about the history of Liège-Bastogne-Liège in the article in which I wrote about it, with the race route of the 100th edition in 2014.

The race route has again been modified a little bit in 2023. In the final we find the famous climbs of la Redoute, des Forges and la Roche-aux-Faucons, but after having climbed la Redoute, the riders will find a new climb with the côte de Cornémont, which is not ref ...

The (modified!) race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2023 on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth, the time- and route schedule and the race profile

The Dutch classic, the Amstel Gold Race, will take place this Sunday between Maastricht and ... the Rijksweg in Vilt. Indeed, since 2013, the finish is no longer on top of the Cauberg in Valkenburg but at the same location as where the races of the Championnats du Monde 2012 finished.

However, the race route of the Amstel Gold Race 2023 has been modified compared to previous years, especially in the first part. It contains 33 climbs, for this 57th edition of the UCI WorldTour race (the number of climbs varies a little bit from time to time, with a minimum of 31 in 2010 and 2012 and a maximum of 35 in 2017 and during the years which followed). In this article you'll find the time- and route schedule and the race route on Open Street Maps (similar to Google ...

Paris-Roubaix 2023: its race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth, its cobble stones sections and the other details of the 120th edition of the Hell of the North

The queen of the classics, Paris-Roubaix 2023, will take place this Sunday 9 April. For the 120th edition of the race, the organisor decided to modify the race route just a little bit compared to last year, for the cobble stones sections between Saint-Martin-sur-Écaillon and Thian: the sections Haussy and Saulzoir (which made its comeback last year) are removed, and the section from Haspres to Thiant (#21) is added. The race thus goes from 30 to 29 cobble stones sections and there will be 54.5 kilometers of cobbles which await the riders (compared to 54.8 last year). The total distance of the race is 256.6 kilometers.

In the Hell of the North a very small thing can come ruin the race for a rider or come at hand for another. Nothing's thus decided upfront, it'll be this Sunday on the cobbles that the whole story will be written!

The 29 cobble stones sections of Paris-Roubaix 2023

The Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth ... and the participants list

The first Belgian classics already took place and now we're early April, it's time for Flanders beauty, one of the nicknames of the Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders. Organised for the first time in 1913 and interrupted only during the First World War makes the Tour of Flanders a real monument among the Belgian classics.

With the trio Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) being present, this edition promises to be a nice spectacle!

The race has been won by a foreign rider for 5 years in a row, but Belgium still is the country with the biggest number of race wins, 69 out of 106. For the first time since 2017 this 107th edition starts in van start in Bruges (Brugge), but the finish sitll is in Oudenaarde of course, after a total distance of 273.4 kilometer. Let's no longer wait to have a look in detail at the Tour of Flanders 2023 race route, which you can find below in Open S ...

The Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023 race route on Open Street Maps and in Google Earth ... and the participants list

After the Classic Brugge De Panne (won by Jasper Philipsen), the E3 Saxo Classic (in which the victory was for Wout van Aert) and Ghent-Wevelgem this weekend (won by Christophe Laporte, in a perfect teamwork with his Jumbo-Visma team mate, Wout van Aert), the Belgian classics will continue this Wednesday with Dwars door Vlaanderen, a 183.7 kilometer long race which contains in its second part several climbs and cobble stones sections which might be decisive for the race.

In this article you'll find the race route on Open Street Maps/Google Earth for Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023.

The Dwars door Vlaanderen 2023 race route on Open Street Maps