Giro d’Italia 2025 to start in Albania

Two road stages and an individual time trial to take place across three days of racing in Balkan country

Tadej Pogacar
(Image credit: Getty Images)

The start of the 2025 Giro d’Italia will take place in Albania, the race’s organiser confirmed on Monday. RCS Sport is still set to release the full race route for next year, in a ceremony in Rome on 13 January.

Two road stages and an individual time trial will take place in the Balkan country when the race gets underway on 9 May before a transfer across the Adriatic sea and a rest day in Puglia three days later.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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