October 27/05 9:58 am - 2006 Tour de France Route Announced
Posted by Editoress on 10/27/05
2006 Tour de France Route Unveiled
For 2006 the Tour will take an anti-clockwise route around France, with short excursions into Luxembourg, Spain, Belgium and Holland. L'Alpe d'Huez returns as a mountaintop finish - one of five mountain stages. There are also two time trial stages, but no team time trial.
| July 1 | Prologue | Strasbourg ITT | 7 km | | July 2 | Stage 1 | Strasbourg to Strasbourg | 183 km | | July 3 | Stage 2 | Obernai to Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) | 223 km | | July 4 | Stage 3 | Esch-sur-Alzette to Valkenburg (Netherlands) | 216 km | | July 5 | Stage 4 | Huy (Belgium) to Saint-Quentin | 215 km | | July 6 | Stage 5 | Beauvais to Caen | 219 km | | July 7 | Stage 6 | Lisieux to Vitré | 184 km | | July 8 | Stage 7 | Saint-Grégoire to Rennes ITT | 52 km | | July 9 | Stage 8 | Saint-Méen-le-Grand to Lorient | 177 km | | July 10 | Rest Day | Bordeaux | | July 11 | Stage 9 | Bordeaux to Dax | 170 km | | July 12 | Stage 10 | Cambo-les-Bains to Pau | 193 km | | July 13 | Stage 11 | Tarbes to Val d'Aran/Pla-de-Beret (Spain) | 208 km | | July 14 | Stage 12 | Luchon to Carcassonne | 211 km | | July 15 | Stage 13 | Béziers to Montélimar | 231 km | | July 16 | Stage 14 | Montélimar to Gap | 181 km | | July 17 | Rest Day | Gap | | July 18 | Stage 15 | Gap to L'Alpe-d'Huez | 187 km | | July 19 | Stage 16 | Le Bourg-d'Oisans to La Toussuire | 182 km | | July 20 | Stage 17 | Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Morzine | 199 km | | July 21 | Stage 18 | Morzine to Mâcon | 193 km | | July 22 | Stage 19 | Le Creusot to Montceau-les-Mines ITT | 56 km | | July 23 | Stage 20 | Antony (Parc de Sceaux) to Paris Champs-Elysées | 152 km |
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