For the first time in its more than one hundred year history, the Tour will start from Italy, with three initial stages that will pass through Tuscany, Emilia Romagna and Piedmont. The appointment with the Grand Départ is set for Saturday 29 June with departure from Florence.
The first stage of the famous cycling race will start from the heart of Tuscany and will wind up to Rimini, touching the natural beauty of the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines and the sandy coasts of the Adriatic. This stage will be dedicated to the memory of the great Italian cyclist Gino Bartali.
The Grand Départ (Great Departure) is in fact a real event within the event, in which the charm and fame of the Tour blend with the history, traditions and atmospheres of the host cities and regions.
The Italian route will be made up of three stages which will take the caravan of cyclists along the roads of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Piedmont, before reaching France.
The first of these three fractions will start on June 29th from Florence, which will therefore be the starting city of the entire Tour de France. 2024 will be a special edition for the “Grande Boucle”, which exceptionally will not end in Paris, where the Olympics will take place at the end of July, but in Nice.
June 27: Presentation of the teams
Palazzo Vecchio will be the logistical base where the technical briefing and photo shoots will also take place, and will be the starting point from which the teams, parading one by one through the streets of the city, will reach the stage in Piazzale Michelangelo for the show broadcast in worldwide vision.
June 29: The race
The caravan will leave from the Villaggio alle Cascine (around 12pm) in non-competitive mode and will reach Piazza Signoria, where it will stop for an institutional start.
The route in detail:
Village – piazzale delle cascine – viale degli Olmi – piazzale Thomas Jefferson – viale del Visarno – via del Fosso Macinante – via Luciano Berio – piazza Vittorio Veneto – viale Fratelli Rosselli – piazzale di Porta al Prato – Il Prato – via Curtatone – Lungarno Amerigo Vespucci – piazzale Carlo Goldoni – via della Vigna Nuova – piazza di San Giovanni – piazza del Duomo – via dei Calzaiuoli – piazza della Signoria (Institutional Start) – via Vacchereccia – via Por Santa Maria – Ponte Vecchio – via dei Guicciardini – piazza dei Pitti – piazza di San Felice – via Romana – piazza della Calza – piazzale di Porta Romana – viale Niccolò Machiavelli – piazzale Galileo – viale Galileo – piazzale Michelangelo – viale Michelangelo – via Carlo Marsuppini – via Coluccio Salutati – piazza Gavinana – viale Donato Giannotti – viale Europa – piazza Gastone Nencini – viale Europa – viale del Pian di Ripoli – Bagno a Ripoli (Official start) -Rimini.
