Vuelta a España Vuelta 2025 route rumors

[houtdffan]

And a sand/gravel stage on Isla de Lobos.

first a real final stage of the TDF and now an interesting ending to the Vuelta?

Did the Amary family finally lay down the law and produce good routes?

 

[E_F_]

first a real final stage of the TDF and now an interesting ending to the Vuelta?

Did the Amary family finally lay down the law and produce good routes?

You are aware, that we're joking, right?

I for one can't wait to see Mads P. taking the final stage on Teide, after they take the longest and softest route possible up there!

 

[Libertine Seguros]

You know I'll be whining when they don't do a stage on La Palma

A week-long diversion to the Canaries from an unpublished Vuelta route of mine:

Lanzarote:

Mirador Barranco del Chafarís 27km from home, breakaway stage

Fuerteventura:

Rolling Vuelta flat stage, probably a sprint finish, allows for a short boat transfer after the stage

Gran Canaria:

Undercategorising some climbs here, the last 2 climbs are the first 24km of this profile but there's quite a bit of descent and flat because the days to come are going to be more severe.

Again undercategorising La Güirra (18km at 5% or so) before climbing this side of Pico de las Nieves as far as the Tejeda junction about 1,5km from the summit. Then a loop containing Degollada del Humo via the Valley of the Tears, which probably ought to be HC as well, 33km from the line, then coming back through the first 7km of this before a short descent and a fairly steady 10km @ 7% MTF route to the observatory at Pico de las Nieves.

La Palma (probably requires a short air transfer):

The first of two very short (sub-140km) stages in a row, opening right from the gun with El Pilar - final 13,8km @ 8,2% so basically Alpe d'Huez after a few introductory kilometres - then the monster that is Roque de los Muchachos - only not doing the last final ascent, just the main body of the climb, for 33km at 6,8% of brutality. This crests 55km from the line and most of the rest is descent, before a loop including the 9,8km @ 8,8% Alto del Castillo (no profile that I could find but it's a usable road. I've possibly undercategorised it as cat.1 again) around 10km from the line before a downhill sauntering to the finish and a short boat trip to Tenerife.

Tenerife:

Short stage aimed at being a bit of a medium mountain one which changes up the feel of the climbing, with 7km at over 10% 34km from the line, although it's wide and accessible roads which are more consistent and less challenging than the gradient overall would suggest. There's then around 4km at 8% into Los Campitos and an uncategorised drag of 3,7km at around 5,5% to the line that I see as being similar to the drags into Guarda in the Volta a Portugal or the 1994 Agrigento Worlds finish.

Queen stage, with a long drag to Pico del Inglés dwarfed by Teide, which we climb in part and then in full, first ascending through Alto de Los Loros (which I used in a previous version of the Vuelta) to the Puerto de Izaña for about 35km at just under 6% before descending to the north and a long loop to avoid there being too long a spell on a road we will be descending now and climbing later, with some 40km between the diversions so this should be safe to do. We descend through Benijos and Realejo Alto and then down to Puerto de la Cruz before climbing through Orotava and Hacienda Perdida to return to the road we were descending earlier - with a final climb of 43km at 5,4% to Mirador del Tabonal Negro, cresting just a couple of kilometres from the line, descending briefly in classic Vuelta fashion (think Xorret del Catí, Anglirú, Arrate) before a final 500m of a short uphill dig to finish.

In my route these were stages 11-17, placing the Pico de las Nieves and La Palma stages on the weekend, with a rest day either side and utilising cruise ship logistics like the Arctic Tour of Norway.

 

[houtdffan]

You are aware, that we're joking, right?

I for one can't wait to see Mads P. taking the final stage on Teide, after they take the longest and softest route possible up there!

CN now reporting that this may be fake news

But they did quote Unipublic not ASO. The Vuelta has been an ASO race for about 13 years

 

[E_F_]

But they did quote Unipublic not ASO. The Vuelta has been an ASO race for about 13 years

50/50 ownership between them, I believe?

 

[Red Rick]

50/50 ownership between them, I believe?

IIRC it's 51/49 for Unipublic.

 

[houtdffan]

IIRC it's 51/49 for Unipublic.

ASO fully bought Unipublic more than 11 years ago.

Unipublic - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[E_F_]

Yeah so ASO owns Unipublic and they organize the Vuelta together. lmao.