Today, Monday 1st July, for the twelfth time in its more than one hundred-year history, the Tour de France will stop in Piedmont, also considering the two stages concluded in Aosta respectively in 1949 (1st Fausto Coppi, who won the yellow jersey and then took it to Paris) and in 1959 (1st Ercole Baldini in the Grande Boucle won by the Spaniard Bahamontes).
The first time in the Asti area
But it is the first time that the Tour will pass for 32 kilometers on the roads of Asti. The section will start at 11.15 from Piacenza and will end after 230 kilometres, around 5pm, in Turin. The yellow jersey and his adventure companions, after leaving Emilia and traveling 60 kilometers between Tortona and Alessandria, the lands of Coppi, will enter the province of Asti, between 2.15 pm and 2.30 pm, in the locality of Bazzana in municipality of Mombaruzzo when 114 kilometers have already been covered and there will be 116 to go. Then it will be the turn of Nizza Monferrato, Calamandrana, Canelli (131 km traveled, 99 to the finish, expected to pass between 2.40 pm and 3 pm), before temporarily crossing the border into the Cuneo area at Santo Stefano Belbo. They will immediately return to the province of Asti at Boglietto, a hamlet of Costigliole, and continue to Castagnole Lanze (147 km traveled, 83 to the finish, expected to pass between 3 pm and 3.20 pm). Then the definitive crossing into the province of Cuneo before the grand finale on the roads of Turin.
[[(gele.Finegil.StandardArticle2014v1) Bosco Marengo, buttafuori accoltellato durante una rissa alla Luna Rossa]]
How traffic changes
In the Cuneo area Alba’s streets will be closed from 12.25pm to 4.13pm and in any case until the end of the race car passes. Coming from the provincial road 3 of Treiso, the transit and parking bans will involve Altavilla at the beginning of the center of Alba, viale Cherasca, piazza Monsignor Grassi, corso Michele Coppino, via Don Alberione, piazza Michele Ferrero, corso Italia, corso Fratelli Bandiera, corso Giacomo Matteotti, viale Torino and corso Canale, up to number 119, the Alba ring road will always remain passable throughout the day.
Closed to traffic in both directions in the Asti area SP 28, 456, 592, 6, 23/A and 23, starting from three hours before the passage of the race and up to fifteen minutes after the passage of the final race vehicle.
In Alessandria, roads will be closed from 11am to 3pm: the entire state road 10 and the roundabout in the area of the Spinetta Marengo cemetery are closed to traffic, as is the connection between the state road 35 Bis dei Giovi and the state road 10 in the Bellavita area. The Stortigliona roundabout, Gorilla road, the exits from the ring road for Alessandria in the Retail area and for Spinetta, the Amag roundabout and those at the traffic lights in the Kimono and Koala area and the railway overpass are also closed.
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The arrivals of the past in Piedmont
Among the most exciting arrivals of the Tour in our region is that of 6 July 1952, when Fausto Coppi, already master of that edition, won the Bourg d’Oisans-Sestriere with a 7′ advantage over the second, the Spaniard Ruiz, consolidating his leadership. At the end of that Giro the Campionissimo gave the second place finisher, the Belgian Ockers, a gap of 28’18”. On 23 July 1956 the «enfant du pays» Nino Defilippis won the Gap-Torino on the dirt track of the Comunale stadium after a spectacular comeback: at Sestriere, the last climb of the day, he had passed 6’45” behind Luxembourger Charly Gaul.
Another unforgettable feat was that of Claudio Chiappucci who on 18 July 1992 won the Saint-Gervais-Sestriere after a long breakaway. At the finish line, «the Devil» preceded the Italian Franco Vona by 1’34” and the Spaniard Miguel Indurain by 1’45”, who that day definitively wore yellow. In 2008, the Tour stopped in the Cuneo area with the Embrun-Prato Nevoso, won by the Australian Simon Gerrans, while the last finish of the Grande Boucle in our region, in chronological order, it dates back to July 29, 2011, when the Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen prevailed over the Dutchman Mollema.
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