The Giro d’Italia is far more than a bike race. It’s a three-week celebration of cycling that showcases Italy’s beauty and culture better than a plate of pasta, an Aperol spritz, or an Armani fashion show.
The 21 stages of the Corsa Rosa visit every corner and highlight every geographical detail of the ‘Bel Paese.’ The Giro covers the barren but beautiful roads of the south, climbs into the steep central Apennine hills, skirts the long coastlines, passes through historical towns and villages, and then high into the mountains in the third and decisive week of racing.
Race organiser RCS Sport loves to describe the Giro as ‘The toughest race in the world in the world’s most beautiful place’. It is a marketing spin, but it also evokes the Giro’s unique beauty. There is nothing like seeing the peloton ride through the snow-covered Dolomites, contest a sprint around the Bay of Naples or celebrate reaching the finish in Rome with laps of the Colosseum.
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