The Netherlands will host the start of a round that will end again in Madrid and that will again seek the show
MADRID, 15 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Unipublic will unveil this Thursday in Madrid the entire route of the 2022 edition of the Vuelta Ciclista a España, which will begin on August 19 in Utrecht (Netherlands) and will end on September 11 in Madrid and which, as usual, will seek surely new ‘traps’ and unpublished ports to promote the show.
Starting at 7:30 p.m., the organizers of the round will present the design they have prepared for the ‘big’ at the Municipal Palace – IFEMA Madrid, which will serve as the starting point for the 77th edition of La Vuelta, which will end again in Madrid after the one lived last summer in Santiago de Compostela.
For the moment, it is confirmed that the next edition of La Vuelta 22 will start on Friday, August 19 with a team time trial that will tour the streets of the Dutch city of Utrecht, although the Netherlands, which could not host the 2020 start due to the pandemic, will host the first three stages.
The second day will be held on Saturday the 20th between ‘s-Hertogenbosch and Utrecht and on Sunday the 21st the peloton will continue touring the North Brabant region in a loop stage starting and ending in the city of Breda. In total, La Vuelta will visit 34 municipalities in the country during these three stages.
From here, and from the end in the streets of the Spanish capital, little else confirmed in full detail. It is known that Talavera de la Reina will host an end and a beginning of the stage, as revealed by the president of Castilla-La Mancha himself, Emiliano García-Page.
Bilbao and the Basque Country will also be the protagonists of the new Vuelta on August 24 and 25, as an event prior to the start of the Tour de France from the capital of Biscay in the 2023 edition. The race will arrive in the capital of Biscay on the day 24, ending at Gran Vía.
The next day, the race will leave for Cantabria in what will be the sixth stage, with a possible finish at Pico Jano, an unprecedented peak that would have been paved for the occasion. Another port with a presence in this Tour of Spain could be that of Peñas Blancas, in Estepona (Malaga), according to RTVE.
The Valencian stage between Elche and Alicante did come to light, as confirmed by the president of the Alicante Provincial Council, Carlos Mozón, when presenting the agreement reached with Unipublic. “You can only advance that it will be a stage full of surprises that will unite the cities of Alicante and Elche,” he explained then.
According to local media, La Vuelta 22 will visit Extremadura in two stages and in one of them the unprecedented port of Tentudía will be climbed, which would host the second high end in the entire history of La Vuelta on Extremadura soil.
And among the rumors about new lands to be explored are those that point to a new Asturian ‘wall’, which would take over from the Gamoniteiru or Angliru: the Collado Fancuaya, in Yernes and Tameza. This Thursday Unipublic will announce all the details of a tour that will surely not leave anyone indifferent.