TOUR DE FRANCE – GRAND DEPART

For the first time in its 120 years of history, the 2024 edition of the Tour de France has chosen an Italian debut on the occasion of the centenary of the first victory of an Italian cyclist, Ottavio Bottecchia, at the
tour. There are three scheduled appointments: on June 29, 2024, the first Italian stage will take the caravan from Florence to Rimini, while the following day, Sunday, June 30, the tour will start again from Cesenatico to Bologna. The third Italian stage will take instead from Piacenza to Turin on July 01. In particular, the stage arriving in Rimini will pass through the roads of Romagna where Marco Pantani used to train. The Italian start of the tour is indeed a tribute to Pantani and the other Italian champions who have marked the history of the Tour: Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi and Vincenzo Nibali.
Cesenatico and all the Romagna are ready to welcome this great sporting event. We are a land of cycling and tradition projected towards the future, where legends of the sport were born and where breathtaking cycling routes, infrastructures and events await for you in every season of the year.

You can consult the official websites Tour de France Grand Départ2024 and https://www.letouritalia.it/

CESENATICO – The city route of the stage
In Cesenatico, the race village will be set up in the area around the municipal stadium. In the perpendicular streets the stadium, the spectators can stay next to the cordoned off streets to see the athletes and the teams parade. For the benefit of the public, there will be maxi screens positioned in strategic places to allow maximum visibility. The first part of the route will be urban with departure scheduled at 12 a.m. on Sunday, June 30, in front of the stadium. In addition to the runners, about thousand vehicles will move, one hundred just for the advertising caravan.

The serpent of runners will cross the city traveling, at reduced speed as if it were a parade, viale Trento, viale Carducci, viale Roma, heading to via Saffi to reach the canal port, it will turn left on via Armellini, where the Seafaring Museum is located and then right in via Cecchini to pass in front of the Spazio Pantani in homage to Marco Pantani.
From the square of the railway station, you will travel almost entirely along Via Mazzini to Via Dei Pini to reach the Deledda promenade in Cervia from which the kilometer zero will start. It will be a parade, a “slow” ride, where the public will be able almost experience first end the event called to go down in the sporting history of Romagna.