It's been an open secret since mid-October, as you may have already read here: the Tour de France 2025 is heading for the North of France, and more specifically Lille and the Metropole Européenne de Lille, for its Grand Départ, which will of course honor the entire Hauts-de-France region. Now, all the elements of this Grand Départ have been announced, and it will be a Grand Départ made up of 3 stages taking place entirely in the Hauts-de-France region, as well as the start of stage 4. Let's take a closer look!
A Grand Départ in the Hauts-de-France region, but most importantly a rendez-vous in the Nord department ...
It's early September, so a little earlier than in recent years, velowire.com is once again featuring the "rendez-vous annuel" article on the search for the route of the forthcoming Tour de France, based on rumours.
In this case it's the Tour de France 2024 and the article is being published a little early because I was able to work on it a little bit earlier than usual and also because there are quite a few rumours that seem to be getting pretty solid already, compared with previous years.
The official presentation of the route of the Tour de France 2024 as well as the 3rd edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (which will start in the Netherlands with 3 stages around the city of Rotterdam, during the first 2 days of the event, which this ti ...
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 ...