Cash, card or bike, sir? Carrefour hypermarket to host latest Vuelta a España offbeat stage start

Save the date. Be it a giant oyster-farming raft in Galicia or a dug-out side of a man-made salt ‘mountain’ in Alicante,  the interior of an aircraft carrier in Cadiz or a Roman amphitheatre in Nîmes, a whisky distillery in Segovia or a meat processing factory in Murcia, the Vuelta a España has always had a longstanding tradition of unconventional and eye-catching starts. 

The latest frontier in the Vuelta’s predilection for wacky salidas is set to be crossed this August 22, when the 2024 race peloton will start what will – presumably – be a neutralised section of stage 6 along the food aisles, round the special offer bins and past the cashdesks of a giant hypermarket in southern Spain.