La Vuelta will reveal its full tour next Tuesday, January 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, as advanced by AS. It will be presented in the city from where the race will start on August 26 and which will conclude on September 17 in Madrid. Some later dates compared to those of recent years, and that is that in 2023 the World Cup will be held earlier: from August 14 to 21 in Glasgow. .“La Vuelta will start with a team time trial in Barcelona of about 14 kilometers, going through the most emblematic places of the city. The second stage, which will start from another town, It will also end in Barcelona, this time at Alto de Montjuic”, revealed from Unipublic, the organizing company, to the media present at the Utrecht start of La Vuelta 2022 last August.
The last time La Vuelta passed through Barcelona was eleven years ago, with triumph of Philippe Gilbert. Although there is still a month and a half left to discover the complete route, whose presentation is made in December other years but which this year was postponed, among other reasons, so as not to coincide with the World Cup, that will monopolize a good part of the spotlight, some brushstrokes are already being known. Valladolid is very interested and “bidding” to have a time trial. Javier Guillén himself, in various local events, announced that Navarra and Asturias, a regular in the race, could also have a leading role in 2023. In addition, after a year of absence, the Valencian roads will once again have La Vuelta through their territory.
The north, in general, and the Pyrenees, in particular, will have great prominence. And it is that after the Catalan start, the race will reach Andorra to finish the third day and it is probable that to start the fourth, according to the Andorra Newspaper. And, possibly, the highlight, several days later, would be the Tourmalet, in France. In 2023, its more than 2,100 meters will be very popular, since it will also be a port of passage in the sixth stage of the Tour de France and will be the outcome of the seventh and penultimate day (the queen) of the women’s Tour. This arrival is something that La Vuelta has been working on for years, and in 2020 it was part of the plan, but the pandemic and the change of dates forced it to be postponed. In this way, La Vuelta will have “the international touch” that its director Guillén announced.