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

[Ilmaestro99]

Are we talking about a some restaurant on a mountain in northeastern France

If we are talking about that, it's definitely closed when you arrive. 10% chance it's open but they are 'not suerving ze food' and instead you get a coffee which taste like it's made from ground parexetamol

 

[OlavEH]

put a couple of the aliens in the field and there won't be 20 riders together at the finish.

There are 20 riders because nobody is good enough to launch a real attack

A 5 % climb can be ridden in close to 30 km/h. It is extremely difficult to create much gaps then. You don't need 12 % climbs, but more than 5 % would really be an advantage.

 

[YavorD]

put a couple of the aliens in the field and there won't be 20 riders together at the finish.

There are 20 riders because nobody is good enough to launch a real attack

Prati di Tivo is much harder climb and it still had a group of 12(?) in the last kilometer.
Even freaking Galibier had a group of 8-9 before the last ramp.

 

[houtdffan]

Prati di Tivo is much harder climb and it still had a group of 12(?) in the last kilometer.
Even freaking Galibier had a group of 8-9 before the last ramp.

they didn't attack Galiber, but rode Tempo (an alien tempo, but still tempo) until the final km

But once the 3 aliens went, nobody was staying anywhere near them

 

[pman]

I don't know, I am starting to get excited about this. A foreign start could bring a boat ton of cash into the race. It sounds like they're still planning on going into Slovenia which could attract one or both of the Slovenians. Last I heard Jonas is still iffy about the race. I read here too that stage 21 in Rome could be an individual time trial? Throw in some climbs tied to the Olympics? I know you guys love to analyze the specifics of different climbs, I just think that in abstract, this looks like a Giro that could build on the momentum of Roglic and Pog winning the last two years.

 

[Potomac]

When do they normally unveil the route?
Don't they need to do it before Le Tour does theirs?

 

[SafeBet]

Grande Partenza will be presented in early October. Full route around mid November.

 

[OlavEH]

I don't know, I am starting to get excited about this. A foreign start could bring a boat ton of cash into the race. It sounds like they're still planning on going into Slovenia which could attract one or both of the Slovenians. Last I heard Jonas is still iffy about the race. I read here too that stage 21 in Rome could be an individual time trial? Throw in some climbs tied to the Olympics? I know you guys love to analyze the specifics of different climbs, I just think that in abstract, this looks like a Giro that could build on the momentum of Roglic and Pog winning the last two years.

I still want to see the Slovenians pay up for a last week in Friuli and Slovenia (2 or 3 stages) with the very last as a hilly stage in Trieste. That means a couple of big mountain (queen stages) stages in the Dolomites the second weekend and that the last week should consist of a big medium mountain stage in Friuli, a mountain stage that ends in Slovenia (Kranskja Gora), perhaps an ITT and a hilly stage in Trieste.

 

[Netserk]

An overview of the rumours so far. I don't have @Eshnar's sage calibration to judge how reliable which ones are. Rest days are both assumed to be on Mondays, but I've seen no rumours of that. I don't know if there will be a third rest day after the Albanian stages.

Date	Stage	Type	Start	Finish	Comments
May 10, Saturday	1			[Albania]
May 11, Sunday	2			[Albania]
May 12, Monday	3			[Albania]
May 13, Tuesday	4		[Abruzzo]	[Abruzzo]	First Italian stages should be in Abruzzo
May 14, Wednesday	5
May 15, Thursday	6
May 16, Friday	7
May 17, Saturday	8
May 18, Sunday	9		Gubbio	Urbino?
May 19, Monday	-	Rest Day	-	-
May 20, Tuesday	10
May 21, Wednesday	11
May 22, Thursday	12			Vicenza	Monte Berico?
May 23, Friday	13	I.T.T.		Montebello	Hilly
May 24, Saturday	14	Hilly	[Friuli]	Gorizia	Similar to 2021?
May 25, Sunday	15	Mountain	[Friuli]	Col Drusciè	Would NOT have to go through Cortina
May 26, Monday	-	Rest Day	-	-
May 27, Tuesday	16
May 28, Wednesday	17
May 29, Thursday	18		Borgomanero?
May 30, Friday	19	Mountain		[Aosta Valley]
May 31, Saturday	20	Mountain		Sestriere	Finestre
June 1, Sunday	21	I.T.T.	Vatican?	Rome

 

[ashhutch1997]

Surley it would make sense to transfer to Apulia if they are starting in Albania?

 

[Netserk]

Surley it would make sense to transfer to Apulia if they are starting in Albania?

Probably not financially.

 

[Eshnar]

I don't know if there will be a third rest day after the Albanian stages.

Pretty sure there will be no rest day for the transfer.

 

[Mayomaniac]

An overview of the rumours so far. I don't have @Eshnar's sage calibration to judge how reliable which ones are. Rest days are both assumed to be on Mondays, but I've seen no rumours of that. I don't know if there will be a third rest day after the Albanian stages.

Date	Stage	Type	Start	Finish	Comments
May 10, Saturday	1			[Albania]
May 11, Sunday	2			[Albania]
May 12, Monday	3			[Albania]
May 13, Tuesday	4		[Abruzzo]	[Abruzzo]	First Italian stages should be in Abruzzo
May 14, Wednesday	5
May 15, Thursday	6
May 16, Friday	7
May 17, Saturday	8
May 18, Sunday	9		Gubbio	Urbino?
May 19, Monday	-	Rest Day	-	-
May 20, Tuesday	10
May 21, Wednesday	11
May 22, Thursday	12			Vicenza	Monte Berico?
May 23, Friday	13	I.T.T.		Montebello	Hilly
May 24, Saturday	14	Mountain	[Friuli]	Tarvisio	Passing through Slovenia, I guess Predil could be the last climb
May 25, Sunday	15	Hilly	[Friuli]	Gorizia	Similar to 2021?
May 26, Monday	-	Rest Day	-	-
May 27, Tuesday	16	Mountain	[Veneto]	Col Drusciè	Possibly stage 13; would NOT have to go through Cortina
May 28, Wednesday	17
May 29, Thursday	18		Borgomanero?
May 30, Friday	19	Mountain		[Aosta Valley]
May 31, Saturday	20	Mountain		Sestriere	Finestre
June 1, Sunday	21	I.T.T.	Vatican?	Rome

According to Tuttobiciweb the Gorizia stage will take place on the 24th and the Dolomites stage on the 25th.
Source: the last paragraphe of this article https://www.tuttobiciweb.it/article...2025-governatore-fedriga-weekend-rosa-gorizia

 

[staubsauger]

How did we get from Finestre almost certain for the 2025 Tour de France to it suddenly being included at the Giro d'Italia? As the single noteworthy mountain stage at a time the race is already decided despite.



Sounds like another mediocre edition now already. What's going on!?

 

[Netserk]

According to Tuttobiciweb the Gorizia stage will take place on the 24th and the Dolomites stage on the 25th.
Source: the last paragraphe of this article https://www.tuttobiciweb.it/article...2025-governatore-fedriga-weekend-rosa-gorizia

Thanks, that seems like a more reliable source. I had hoped the order would have been the other way around though.

 

[pman]

Any updates on Jonas and or Pog for this? The prospect of both of them going for the double is so exciting.

 

[YavorD]

Any updates on Jonas and or Pog for this? The prospect of both of them going for the double is so exciting.

I would be surprised if any of them shows in the Giro.
It seems likely that Pog is aiming for the Vuelta and may come back to the classics (although I'd prefer him going to Basque Country-Dauphine so he ticks them off) while Vingegaard will most probably try the Tour with a traditional preparation.

 

[staubsauger]

They paved the north side of Reiterjoch / Pampeago 12 years ago, only to never ever use it again. Not even Manghen - Alpe di Pampeago from the other side.

Sometimes you really don't need to understand what they're doing.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our post-2022 equivalent of the Gamoniteiru/Puy de Dôme rumour.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838449676426625344

 

[houtdffan]

Contador simply didnt want to do a long range attack that day is why he whined.

He had done one the previous day and was planning another one on the 7 hour Sunday stage

 

[Peyroteo94]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our post-2022 equivalent of the Gamoniteiru/Puy de Dôme rumour.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1838449676426625344

OMG, I would love Crostis and Zoncolan combo to happen! It won't happen I know, that descent is crazy dangerous.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Contador simply didnt want to do a long range attack that day is why he whined.

He had done one the previous day and was planning another one on the 7 hour Sunday stage

The reason was WW's death mate.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Weylandt's death being so soon beforehand meaning nerves were raw and fears were heightened understandably about potentially dangerous descents, compounded by a misleading angled photograph that made an already off-camber corner look terrifyingly dangerous, and which was purported to be from the descent but was in fact from the plateau. It was very understandable at the time.

 

[ashhutch1997]

The Crostis/ Zoncolan combo is brutal, one of the hardest final chains ever, but what's more crazy is they did the Gardeccia stage the following day.
This was Angelo Zomegnan heritage.

 

[houtdffan]

The Crostis/ Zoncolan combo is brutal, one of the hardest final chains ever, but what's more crazy is they did the Gardeccia stage the following day.
This was Angelo Zomegnan heritage.

I think had it not been for that Sunday stage, Crostis stays in. Perhaps that mountain block was a little too hard looking back at it. Putting in a Finestre level climb before Zoncolon followed by the 7 hour death march... I can see why the peloton revolted

The descent was already made safe with crash barriers. Would have been the safest in the race.