Barcelona will host the Grand Departure from the Tour de France 2026 and the latter will be unprecedented with atypical profiles.
This Tuesday, February 25, 2025, the organizers of the Tour de France unveiled the first stages of the 2026 edition of the Tour de France. If the big departure in Barcelona was already announced, we now know more about the profiles of the first stages and the surprise is great! For the first time in history, one against the watch by team will launch this Tour de France. A test absent since 2019 and which therefore returns through the big door.
The second step will be just as spectacular with a very hilly online stage of 178 km with a muscular final and three laps of a circuit drawn around Montjuïc … Enough to dig a little more the differences between the favorites of the general classification . “It was a reciprocal wish, mentioned in 2009 during the last passage of the Tour in Barcelona. A wish revived by Jaume Collboni Cuadrado ten years later, when he became first deputy of the municipality, and concretely expressed in 2023, during His accession to the mayor’s armchair. Attractiveness, his beating heart were already as many assets to welcome a big start, “explained Christian Prudhomme.
The steps
Saturday July 4, 2026 – Step 1 : Barcelona – Barcelona, CLM by teams / 19.7 km
Sunday July 5, 2026 – Step 2 : Tarragona – Barcelona / 178 km
Monday July 6, 2026 – Step 3 : Granollers -?