Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements

[Mayomaniac]

Col Drusciè!

My only fear is that they'll want to go through Cortina, so that it'll be Tre Croce > Cortina > Col Drusciè rather than Giau > Col Drusciè.

It could be the last stage in the second week or the first in the third:

Udine > Cortina d'Ampezzo (Col Drusciè)

182.0 km, +4347 m. Bike ride in Passons, Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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You also used the worst possible climb before Tre Croci, with something more it's an acceptable stage.
Not sure if there is enough space at Col Drusciè to host a MTF, there is a parking lot, but the parking lot seems big enough.

 

[gavia88]

Lads

We're still on for Finestre in every Grand Tour in 2025

I thought that Prudhomme already mentioned that the tour 2025 will be on France territory only

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Col Drusciè!

My only fear is that they'll want to go through Cortina, so that it'll be Tre Croce > Cortina > Col Drusciè rather than Giau > Col Drusciè.

It could be the last stage in the second week or the first in the third:

Udine > Cortina d'Ampezzo (Col Drusciè)

182.0 km, +4347 m. Bike ride in Passons, Friuli-Venezia Giulia

ridewithgps.com

If they need to go through Cortina, they can simply come from Giau, then leave the main road near the ski lifts at Lacedel to descend through either Mortisa or Meleres, which leaves the section of main road you need to get to Drusciè available to climb. In fact, from satellite images it looks like part of those roads have been repaved very recently, perhaps in anticipation of the 2025 Giro?

Like this.

 

[OlavEH]

Col Drusciè!

My only fear is that they'll want to go through Cortina, so that it'll be Tre Croce > Cortina > Col Drusciè rather than Giau > Col Drusciè.

It could be the last stage in the second week or the first in the third:

Udine > Cortina d'Ampezzo (Col Drusciè)

182.0 km, +4347 m. Bike ride in Passons, Friuli-Venezia Giulia

ridewithgps.com

If they start in Udine and finish at Col Drusice, the only option should be to cross Giau. And do as many climbs before that within a reasonable length of the stage.

 

[Mayomaniac]

If they start in Udine and finish at Col Drusice, the only option should be to cross Giau. And do as many climbs before that within a reasonable length of the stage.

Pura-Sella Razzo-Tre Croci would still be somewhat acceptable, but clearly not on the same level.

 

[OlavEH]

Pura-Sella Razzo-Tre Croci would still be somewhat acceptable, but clearly not on the same level.

Putting Tre Croci as the penultimate climb when you could use Giau would feel as a major disappointment.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Why not go through Cortina earlier in the stage and do a Cortina-Falzarego-Caprile-Giau-(Drusciè instead of Cortina) loop like in the 2008 Giro but in reverse?

 

[Netserk]

You also used the worst possible climb before Tre Croci, with something more it's an acceptable stage.
Not sure if there is enough space at Col Drusciè to host a MTF, there is a parking lot, but the parking lot seems big enough.

I went for the most plausible option from Udine.

But you can easily imagine the stage to start in Veneto, and then a loop like @Libertine Seguros mentioned can come in play.

 

[pastronef]

I'm absolutely in awe about the way you remember year by year stages and climbs, wow

 

[OlavEH]

I went for the most plausible option from Udine.

Why ist that the most plausible option? Regional borders? Length? Going through Cortina? Something else?

 

[Netserk]

Why ist that the most plausible option? Regional borders? Length? Going through Cortina? Something else?

Going through Cortina and length (and simplicity). Udine is just a pure guess and functions as a placeholder for a stage start in Friuli, it's probably more likely to start near Pordenone or in Veneto, if it comes after the two Friuli stages. But if I had to commit to a single bet on what RCS will serve if the stage goes from Udine to Col Druscié, that is what I find most likely. Much better options are available, but that is always the case.

 

[houtdffan]

I think what the news told is both Giro and Tour may use Finestre.
A single stage in GT with 2×Finestre? No way

Hopefully the giro does a traditional finestre stage and prudhomme makes gouvenou grow a pair and include finestre in a stage as hard as sestrieres 1992

 

[staubsauger]

My personal aspiration has declined so vastly. I'm fine with Stelvio - Bormio 2000.

It's realistic. Stelvio was strongly rumored for 2025. It means Stelvio would be ridden from the hard Prad am Stilfsersjoch side. Bormio 2000 is a nice average mtf to make long-range attacks stick. The ski station could potentially pay for it. Most important both Stelvio & Bormio get constantly cleared with a snowplow so the stage actually takes place.

Finestre will be at the Tour de France for its 20 years anniversary. That's what they pay for.

Everything else. Kronplatz / Corones, Würzjoch / Erbe, Jaufenpass / Giovo, Fauniera, Gavia. It's nice dreams but not happening.

Only Manghen - Alpe di Pampeago sounds like a good and realistic idea. Then again, Reiterjoch MTF from the South Tyrolian side would be better...

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

So I read that correctly?

Giro 2025 with Finestre as the penultimate climb.
Tour 2025 with a Finestre MTF after a hard mountain stage.
Vuelta 2025 with a Finestre Unipuerto finish within the first 4 stages.

Here we go, officially confirmed, Alexa play Despacito!!!

 

[Mayomaniac]

My personal aspiration has declined so vastly. I'm fine with Stelvio - Bormio 2000.

It's realistic. Stelvio was strongly rumored for 2025. It means Stelvio would be ridden from the hard Prad am Stilfsersjoch side. Bormio 2000 is a nice average mtf to make long-range attacks stick. The ski station could potentially pay for it. Most important both Stelvio & Bormio get constantly cleared with a snowplow so the stage actually takes place.

Finestre will be at the Tour de France for its 20 years anniversary. That's what they pay for.

Everything else. Kronplatz / Corones, Würzjoch / Erbe, Jaufenpass / Giovo, Fauniera, Gavia. It's nice dreams but not happening.

Only Manghen - Alpe di Pampeago sounds like a good and realistic idea. Then again, Reiterjoch MTF from the South Tyrolian side would be better...

Bormio 2000 could happen because it's the 2nd place besides Cortina to hold Alpine Ski races at the 2026 Olympics, + 200 years Stilfser Joch road next year.
The climb from Prad is pure bike porn, best pass ever!

 

[Froome]

The Tour needs more the Finestre than the Giro.

 

[Netserk]

You also used the worst possible climb before Tre Croci, with something more it's an acceptable stage.
Not sure if there is enough space at Col Drusciè to host a MTF, there is a parking lot, but the parking lot seems big enough.

Btw, @Mayomaniac, have you climbed Drusciè? The road visible on satellite images from this year match the Google Street View images from 2011, but OSM shows a slightly different path for the road near the top.

It seems like a quite consistent climb on cyclingcols, but it's sometimes hard to judge even if the profile shows a lot of detail.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Btw, @Mayomaniac, have you climbed Drusciè? The road visible on satellite images from this year match the Google Street View images from 2011, but OSM shows a slightly different path for the road near the top.

It seems like a quite consistent climb on cyclingcols, but it's sometimes hard to judge even if the profile shows a lot of detail.

No, nearby MTB climbs and I've gone downhill on it. When I'm in Cortina on the road bike it's nearly always Giau or Falzarego/Valparola, sometimes both in one loop that starts and finishes in Cortina.

Last year it hosted a MTF in the Giro del Veneto, so it can at least host smaller MTFs. The results: https://www.procyclingstats.com/national-race/giro-del-veneto2/2023/stage-4

Cortina is a bit of a mess atm with tons of construction sites (I counted +20 tower cranes today). Speculation and investors are destroying the few things left that still make the town unique + nobody there seems to actually want the waste of money that is the bobsleight course, but that is another discussion.

 

[Netserk]

Nice, video confirms that OSM is correct, and that they made a new road at the top:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8O3i-3K4g

The finish-line in the video is at the junction of the old and new road:

 

[ChiefMasterPro]

Bormio 2000 could happen because it's the 2nd place besides Cortina to hold Alpine Ski races at the 2026 Olympics, + 200 years Stilfser Joch road next year.
The climb from Prad is pure bike porn, best pass ever!

Finally someone is mentioning the important things for next year. It will be the Giro before the 2026 Olympics in Lombardy, South Tyrol and Veneto. So I would assume, that we will see some of the places, where the olympic action in 2026 may be. This also could create hope for something in the Val di Fassa, maybe the Alpes of Pampeago, Gardeccia or Cermis? Maybe we also may see Antholz again, which is not great, but maybe with some more creative stage design even this breakaway MTF could become a GC day. Same applies for the arena in Verona, which will host the closing ceremony and the Giro did that too.

 

[Valv.Piti]

Ah yes, everyone on CN trying to predict whats gonna happen at the presentation due to the amount of absolutely great climbs and opportunities RCS have to make great stages in the Alps.

Chances are we will get disappointed again...... but a man (and woman) can hope, I guess

 

[staubsauger]

So we realistically could get Stelvio - Bormio 2000 and / or Manghen - Alpe di Pampeago?

Guess I'm fine with that!

 

[OlavEH]

Ah yes, everyone on CN trying to predict whats gonna happen at the presentation due to the amount of absolutely great climbs and opportunities RCS have to make great stages in the Alps.

Chances are we will get disappointed again...... but a man (and woman) can hope, I guess

I'm rarely disappointed by the Tour rote because I have rater low expectations. But often by the Giro route. The expectations are much higher and the possibility for good stages so immense that RCA almost always makes something underwhelming.

 

[ashhutch1997]

Regarding the Col Drusciè, the Giro has actually finished there back in 1977. I also heard some rumors off Le Gruppetto that the final weekend would have a stage in the Aoste Valley, followed by Finestre/ Sestriere, similar to 2015. Then a final TT in Rome starting in the Vatican.
I don't know how true this is, maybe some of you on here ITK could help.

 

[yaco]

Regarding the Col Drusciè, the Giro has actually finished there back in 1977. I also heard some rumors off Le Gruppetto that the final weekend would have a stage in the Aoste Valley, followed by Finestre/ Sestriere, similar to 2015. Then a final TT in Rome starting in the Vatican.
I don't know how true this is, maybe some of you on here ITK could help.

I just hope that we don't have ITT's as the last stage of a GT which happened in all three GT's in 2024. Not much GC action occur and it seems a waste of a stage.