The Vuelta a España 2023 will have two stage finishes in Navarra

The Vuelta a España 2023 will have two stage finishes in Navarra

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The Palau de la Música in Barcelona hosted this Tuesday the complete presentation of the official tour of lap 23whose 78th edition that will leave on August 26 from the Catalan capital and that it will come to Madrid on September 17.

The Basque roads will have their own leading role during the race, since Navarra will host both the end of the 14th stage, ending at Alto de Belagua as the start and end of the 15th, with Pamplona Y lekunberri as departure and arrival points.

Thus, the race will arrive in Navarra on Saturday, September 9, through zuberoa and after ascending the Larrau port, in a journey of 161 kilometers and four mountain passes.

Profile of stage 14 of the Vuelta 2023. Photo: La Vuelta

Profile of stage 14 of the Vuelta 2023. Photo: La Vuelta

The following day, Sunday September 10, the fifteenth stage will run entirely through Navarra, leaving its capital to finish in lekunberri after traveling 156.5 kilometers and overcoming three third category ports.

Profile of stage 15 of the Vuelta a España 2023. Photo: La Vuelta

Profile of stage 15 of the Vuelta a España 2023. Photo: La Vuelta

Tourmalet and Angliru, the colossi of a Vuelta with 10 top finishes

On the other hand, the Tourmalet and the Angliru They will be the great colossi of the 78th edition of the Vuelta, which will offer 10 hilltop finals in its 21 stages, five of them unprecedented, in addition to 2 time trials.

A race true to its mountainous personality with multiple mountain finishes and complicated arrivals with the aim of keeping the fans alert until the last day, this time with a mountain stage in the Community of Madrid on the eve of the final, which will not be the usual one ” of the ports”, but a “classic” leg-breaker with 10 levels of third class that can give a lot of play to one step from the final party.

La Vuelta 2023 will also include 2 time trials, the team start in Barcelona and an individual one in Valladolid to open the second week, six medium-mountain days, four flats and two flats with a climb finish.

ROUTE OF THE 2023 TOUR:

Stage 1 (August 26): Barcelona – Barcelona (14.6 kilometres) (CRE)

Stage 2 (August 27): Mataró – Barcelona (181.3 km) (Medium Mountain)

Stage 3 (August 28): Súria – Arinsal Andorra (158.5 km) (Mountain)

Stage 4 (August 29): Andorra La Vella – Tarragona (183.4 km) (Medium Mountain)

Stage 5 (August 30): Morella – Burriana (185.7 km) (Medium Mountain)

Stage 6 (August 31): Vall D’Uixó – Javalambre (181.3 km) (Mountain)

Stage 7 (September 1): Utiel – Oliva (188.8 km) (Llana)

Stage 8 (September 2): Dénia – Xorret de Catí (164.8 km) (Mountain)

Stage 9 (September 3): Cartagena – Caravaca de la Cruz (180.9 km) (Medium Mountain)

September 4: rest day

Stage 10 (September 5): Valladolid – Valladolid (25 km) (CRI)

Stage 11 (September 6): Lerma – Laguna Negra-Vinuesa (163.2 km) (flat with a hilly finish)

Stage 12 (September 7): Ólvega – Zaragoza (165.4 km, Llana)8

Stage 13 (September 8): Formigal – Tourmalet (134.7 km) (Mountain)

Stage 14 (September 9): Sauveterre de Béarn – Larra Belagua (161.7 km) (Mountain)

Stage 15 (September 10): Pamplona – Lekunberri (156.5 km) (Medium Mountain)

September 11: rest day

Stage 16 (September 12): Liencres Playa – Bejes (119.7 km) (Flat with a hilly finish)

Stage 17 (September 13): Ribadesella – Angliru (122.6 km) (Mountain)

Stage 18 (September 14): Pola de Allande – La Cruz de Linares (178.9 km) (Mountain)

Stage 19 (September 15): La Bañeza – Íscar (177.4 km) (Llana)

Stage 20 (September 16): Manzanares El Real – Guadarrama (208.4 km) (Medium Mountain)

Stage 21 (September 17): Hipódromo Zarzuela – Madrid (101 km) (Llana)


Source: Eitb

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