In Piazza Duomo an installation with eleven giant marbles portraying the champions of yesterday and today
Everything is ready for the first start in the history of the Tour de France from Italy. There are only a few hours left until “Great departure” scheduled for Saturday 29 June, departing from Florence and I arrive in Rimini. The other two stages will be Cesenatico-Bologna on 30 June and Piacenza-Turin on 1 July, after which the caravan will continue to France, with the final stage for the “Grande Boucle” in Nice.
After the presentation of the 22 teams, made up of 8 cyclists each for a total of 176 athletes, the party in Piazzale Michelangelo and the opening of the Fan Park in Piazza Santa Croce yesterday, today was the turn of the inauguration of the “Karl Kopinski, Winning the Yellow” show between Palazzo Strozzi Sacrati and Piazza Duomo. It is in fact under Brunelleschi’s Dome that eleven giant marbles appeared, dedicated to cycling champions of yesterday and todaysymbolizing one of the most popular and loved beach games that led to dreams of the stages of the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France.
“The Tour de France is an extraordinary event,” said President Eugenio Giani, “that we intend to honor to the fullest. And so it is with great joy that we have set up this exhibition of Karl Kopinski. Master Kopinski, with his strong brush strokes and the extreme realism he uses in the interpretation of his characters, gives us the moments that have remained indelibly imprinted in time by blocking the exact moment, the magical one that tells the story. Cycling, even more than football, is a popular celebration. It is the people who pour out onto the streets for a few moments of the race, it is the wait and then the applause for everyone, regardless of their cheering, because everyone’s sweat and effort are respected; it is the epic of certain stages and certain feats. The Kopinskj exhibition with its heroes wants to exalt these moments and these emotions and I consider it a fantastic way to celebrate the departure of the Tour de France from Florence and Tuscany.”
PATH
The official departure will take place on Saturday 29 June. The caravan will depart from Village at Cascine (equipped area for teams waiting for the start), approximately around 12, in non-competitive mode and will head towards Piazza della Signoriawhere he will stop for one institutional start. It will continue passing through Via Vacchereccia, Por Santa Maria, Ponte Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti towards Piazzale Michelangelo and then down towards Gavinana for a tribute to Gino Bartali.
A Bath in Ripolicorresponding to the Viola Parkthere will be start of the first competitive stage which will reach Rimini after 206 km, crossing six municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Florence: Pontassieve, Pelago, Rufina, Dicomano and San Godenzo as well as Bagno a Ripoli, before reaching the top of the hill in Emilia-Romagna.
CIRCULATION MEASURES
To allow the passage of athletes, a Firenze a series of measures will be established (parking bans first and then transit bans). In detail, the parking bans will start at 8pm on Friday 28 June (until 2pm on Saturday) on the route, namely Piazzale delle Cascine (starting from the Village)-Viale degli Olmi-Piazzale Jefferson-Viale del Visarno-Via del Fosso Macinante-Via De Bellegarde De Saint Lary-Via Luciano Berio-Piazza Vittorio Veneto-Viale Fratelli Rosselli (side road on the even house numbers side)-Piazzale di Porta al Prato-Il Prato-Via Curtatone-Lungarno Vespucci-Piazza Goldoni-Via della Vigna Nuova-Via degli Strozzi-Via dei Vecchietti-Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore-Via dei Cerretani-Piazza di San Giovanni-Piazza del Duomo-Via dei Calzaiuoli-Piazza della Signoria-Via Vacchereccia-Via Por Santa Maria (detour excluding runners and motorbikes on Piazza del Pesce and Lungarni Archibusieri-Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici-Piazza dei Giudici-lungarno Diaz-Ponte alle Grazie-lungarno Torrigiani-via dei Bardi to resume the race route at the exit of Ponte Vecchio)-Ponte Vecchio-via dei Guicciardini-piazza dei Pitti-piazza San Felice-via Romana-piazza della Calza-piazzale di Porta Romana-viale Machiavelli-piazzale Galileo-viale Galileo-piazzale Michelangelo-viale Michelangelo-via Marsuppini-via Salutati-piazza Gavinana-viale Giannotti-viale Europa-piazza Nencini-viale Europa after which the itinerary leaves the municipal territory.
Other parking bans on a further series of roads, namely: via Dante da Castiglione (sections from via Senese towards viale del Poggio Imperiale and from via del Poggio Imperiale towards via Senese), via Ser Ventura Monachi (section), via dei Bastioni, via Lapo da Castiglionchio (from piazza Gualfredotto to via di Villamagna), viale Petrarca (side of even house numbers from 122 to piazzale di Porta Romana), piazzale di Porta Romana (side of buildings from house number 10r to via Foscolo including the bike rack). Parking is also prohibited in via Farinata degli Uberti (even house numbers side), via Michele di Lando (odd house numbers side) for the establishment of parking spaces for ZCS 1 residents. From 8 am to 2 pm on Saturday, parking bans will be added in via Volteranna (even house numbers side from 4/b to via Bernardo da Quintavalle), lungarno del Tempio (Arno side on the stretch from Ponte San Niccolò towards Ponte da Verrazzano), via del Bisarno (even house numbers side from Tpl stop towards via Austria up to the disabled parking space excluded), piazzale Galileo (ZCS parking area), piazza dell’Unità Italiana (both sides in the connecting lane on the inside of the square from the front of house number 8r to the front of house number 2). An extraordinary parking lot will be set up for sharing services (bicycles and scooters) in piazza Duomo, expanding the area currently available to them on the via del Proconsolo side.
At 9am on Saturday (and until 2pm) it will be the turn of the transit bans on the route and on the roads connected to the itinerary. Numerous changes of direction and the establishment of one-way systems exiting the area affected by the passage of cyclists.
Changes to traffic and parking also in the municipality of Bath in Ripoli. From 6:00 p.m. on June 28th until the end of the race, parking will be prohibited with removal in the parking lots of the Quarto cemetery and Via Le Plessis Robinson and in Via di Rosano (SP34) in the section inside the town of Vallina. Furthermore, on Saturday June 29th, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Via di Rosano will be closed to traffic.
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