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Added: thursday 29 December 2022 at 16:11:00
The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy: the detailed maps on Open Street Maps
A few days ago, the Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy was officially announced. On velowire.com, you were able to discover the 3 stages that make up this Grand Départ in the updated article presenting the rumors about it since a few months already.

Now we would like you to discover these 3 stages in detail on Open Street Maps (the equivalent of Google Maps, but as open source) on which are shown the race routes the riders will follow in Italy at end of June and early July 2024.
The programme of the Tour de France 2024 Grand Départ
The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 follows a classic schedule: ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2024| Open Street Maps/Google Maps/Google Earth
Added: wednesday 21 December 2022 at 23:36:00
The Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2024 in Italy! And the finish with a time trial Monaco > Nice!
initially published on 12 October 2022 at 11.49PM, updated on 1 December 2022 at 12.47PM, on 3 December 2022 at 10.14PM and on 21 December at 11.36PM

In June already, La Gazzetta dello Sport announced the news and it came back up several times since ... the Tour de France 2024 would have its Grand Départ in Italy and would end ... not as usual on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, but in Nice, most probably on the Promenade des Anglais!

UPDATE 21 December 2022 at 11.36OM: while the finish of the last stage in Nice and its start in Monaco have already been announced and integrated in the versions early December of this article, Amaury Sport Organisation today officially announced the Grand Départ in Italy, with 3 stages, in a broadcast of the sports news on Italian TV. The information below thus now show what was in the official announce ...
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this article appears in the following categories: Tour de France| Tour de France 2024
Added: monday 31 October 2022 at 23:18:00
The Tour de France 2023 race route has been presented: the Tour of all mountain areas!
Without much surprises if you have followed the search for the Tour de France 2023 race route on this website in the past few weeks, the 110th edition of the Grande Boucle will take place on a rather limited part of France after the Grand Départ in Bilbao and in the rest of the Spanish Bask country, but it does visit all French mountain areas.

Indeed, after the Grand Départ and a visit of the Pyrenees, the race will go up north up till Bordeaux before taking off, via Limoges, towards the Massif Central followed by the Jura to get to the Alps where the race will camp for several days before getting back on its steps, visit another part of the Jura and end off in the Vosges before the transfer towards Paris. Only one time trial, not without any difficulties, of 22 kilometers will be on the programme of this Tour!
The little details of the Tour de France 2023 race route:
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