Towns along the great journeys.

Grand Tour Towns tells the stories of the places the world's great journeys pass through — beginning with cycling's three Grand Tours: the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. Every day a race leaves one town, follows a road, and arrives in another. We follow that line — the towns, the roads between them, and the days the races made unforgettable.

Start with the Giro

The 110th Giro d'Italia runs from Trieste — once the Habsburg Empire's window on the sea — to Rome, the Eternal City: 3,418.9 km and 50,250 m of climbing through border ports, Apennine valleys and the high Alps. The full journey is published now, town by town, with a stage guide for its queen stage.

Giro d'Italia 2027 — From the Empire's Window on the Sea to the Eternal City →
Stage 16 guide — Sondrio → Aprica: Mortirolo, Gavia, Mortirolo →

About

Grand Tour Towns is a reading project about places, not results: no predictions, no gear, no tactics — the stories of towns and roads, and the race memories that changed what a place means. It is the flagship series of a small portal that may one day also hold ski towns and city stories under the same roof. Published in English, with a Japanese edition under /ja/.