Vuelta a España director Javier Guillén has confirmed that Piedmont in northwest Italy, is the main candidate to host the beginning of the 2025 Vuelta a España.
It would mark the sixth international begin in Vuelta historical past and the primary in Italy. Indeed, a profitable Piedmont bid would see the Vuelta begin overseas for 3 years in succession, on condition that this 12 months’s race will get underway in Lisbon on August 17, whereas Monaco was lately introduced as the beginning website for 2026. The USA’s Sepp Kuss received the 2023 2023 Vuelta a España after an inner rivalry together with his Jumbo-Visma teammates.
Piedmont is investing closely to draw main sporting occasions and particularly biking. The area hosted the Grande Partenza of the 2024 Giro d’Italia, will host a stage end and stage begin of the 2024 Tour de France and maybe the opening phases of the 2025 Vuelta a España. There are additionally experiences in Italy that the 2025 Tour de France will return to Italy for a stage end, whereas the 2024 males’s and girls’s Tour de L’Avenir will end atop the filth roads Colle delle Finestre in Piedmont.
“I can affirm that what the Piedmont area revealed, declaring its curiosity in internet hosting the 2025 begin, is true and that we’re engaged on it,” Guillén advised AS.
“We would love it very a lot, as a result of Italy is a biking nation that this 12 months may also host the beginning of the Tour de France, and we’d love for the Vuelta to be current within the territory.
“There are talks, intense work and, if all the things goes nicely, there shall be nice pleasure. The official confirmations will come, when it occurs, from each side, however I’m very joyful to say that the Vuelta and Piedmont are getting nearer and nearer.”
Guillén indicated that affirmation of the Piedmont begin must be formalised earlier than this 12 months’s Vuelta will get underway in Portugal.
“It’s not finished but, however we’re on the road we would like, transferring ahead. The thought is to make an announcement earlier than La Vuelta 2024,” he stated.
The Piedmont area hosted the beginning of this 12 months’s Giro d’Italia, with the race starting in Venaria Reale exterior Turin earlier than a summit end at Oropa on stage 2.
In April, RAI reported that the 2025 Vuelta may begin with a stage from Venaria Reale to Novara, with the second stage taking the race into the Langhe with a end in Alba. RAI indicated that the deliberate third stage would end in Ceres, with stage 4 beginning in Bussoleno after which crossing into France.
As nicely as engaged on international begins, Guillén reiterated his curiosity in bringing the Vuelta to the Canary Islands for the primary time for the reason that race started in Tenerife in 1988.
Representatives from Tenerife and Gran Canaria have met with Vuelta organiser Unipublic this 12 months amid experiences that the ultimate 4 phases of the 2026 race may happen on the Canary Islands. The speculation had beforehand been floated for the 2017 race, however the plan didn’t come to fruition.
“This is one among our nice challenges,” Guillén stated. “It can be a unprecedented nationwide occasion to additional deepen our worldwide influence.”