Florence’s embrace to the Tour de France cyclists | Gazzetta delle Valli

Firenze (A. Pan.) – The hug of Firenze to cyclists and to Tour de France. Great enthusiasm for the most important cycling stage race in the world, with the city of Firenze adorned with giallo. The streets of the center are a single color: yellow. And Piazza Duomo brings back images of the champions of yesterday and today.

This morning the Grande Boucle takes off from Tuscany, the first time in Italy and in homage to Gino Bartali and to the Italian champions. In Florence, Bartali is celebrated, who won the Tour in 1934 and 1948, while tomorrow in Romagna, with the departure from Cesenatico, homage will be paid to the “Pirate”, Marco Pantani who triumphed in Paris in 1998 and on Monday in Piacenza the first Italian triumph in the Tour will be celebrated, that of Ottavio Bottecchia a hundred years after that success which at the time was called the “Tour of France”, therefore Fausto Coppi who won the Tour in 1949 and 1952.

Many champions who have been remembered in recent days in Florence with photos and films showing the successes of Italian cyclists at the Tour del France.

Now the Italian hopes are in two Italian cyclists, Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) e Luca Mozzato (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) who during the presentation days brought enthusiasm back to Italian cycling and today to the first stage – Florence-Rimini – they will do battle. After the first three Italian stages, the fourth stage will enter France and will propose the Galibier, while the grand finale will be at Nice, Sunday, July 21, is the first time that the Tour du France will travel far from Paris.

Reason: the Olympic Games which will start in Paris on July 26th.

THE STAGES
1st June 29th Florence – Rimini km 206
2nd June 30 Cesenatico – Bologna km 200
3rd 1st July Piacenza – Turin km 229
4th 2 July Pinerolo – Valloire km 138
5a 3 July Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne – Saint-Vulbas km 177
6th 4th July Mâcon – Dijon km163
7a 5 July Nuits-Saint-Georges – Gevrey-Chambertin (cron. individuale) km 25
8th 6th floor Semur-en-Auxois – Colombey-les-Deux-Églises km 176
9th 7th July Troyes – Troyes km 199

July 8th – first day of rest
10th July 9 Orléans – Saint-Amand-Montrond km 187
11th 10th arrondissement Evaux-les-Bains – Le Lioran km 211
12th July 11th Aurillac – Villeneuve-sur-Lot km 204
13th 12 July Agen – Pau km 179
14a 13 juglio Pau – Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d’Adet) km 152
15th July 14th Loudenvielle – Plateau de Beille km 198
July 15th – Second day of rest
16a 16 julio Gruissan – Nîmes km187
17a 17 July Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux – SuperDévoluy km 178
18th July 18th Gap – Barcelonnette km179
19th July 19 Embrun – Isola 2000 km 145
20th July 20th Nice – Col de la Couillole km 133
21st 21 July Monaco-Nice (individual time trial) km 34