Date: Monday, July 21st, 2025

Stage:  75 km  |  1.529 m

Start: h. 9.00 Bolzano Fair 

Finish: Bolzano Fair

Locations: Bolzano, Ora, Aldino, Pietralba, Nova Ponente, Rauth, Cardano, Bolzano

Crono: Ponte di Aldino/Aldeiner Brücke (km 26) –> Monte San Pietro/Petersberg  > 16,2  km |  628 m

Feed zone after 39 km in Maria Weissenstein/Pietralba

Lunch in Bolzano Fair

SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION

We cycle from Bolzano in a southerly direction to Laives/Leifers and continue on roads with little traffic to Ora/Auer, where the road leads up in several bends along a steep porphyry wall and finally flows onto a natural terrace. After a short, relaxing stretch of flat land, you turn off at “Brückenwirt” onto the road to Monte San Pietro/Petersberg. The start of the timed section is at the parking lot in front of the bridge. The next 9.5 km and 590 m of climbing to the finish line in Monte San Pietro/Petersberg have to be covered in “race mode”. In Aldein/Aldino the worst is over and you can start the final spurt. After the finish arch, the road leads to the highest point of the day, to Pietralba/Maria Wessenstein, South Tyrol’s most important pilgrimage site with the imposing basilica, in whose shadow the refreshment station awaits the cyclists. Freshly strengthened, you roll over the Reggelberg plateau, on the western edge of the Fiemme Valley Dolomites, to Nova Ponente/Deutschnofen. In Rauth you reach the road to valley of Eggental. Now you can put your feet up, because the 20 km to Cardano/Kardaun is a single flowing descent. From here, the last few kilometers are covered in a relaxed manner until you arrive in Bolzano: There in the trade fair, a well-deserved lunch awaits all cyclists.

STAGE 1

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