STAGE 3-2025 | PASSI MENDOLA E PALADE

Ph.Credits: Archivio GdD, TV-Kaltern_Fabian-Call / Helmuth Rier

Date: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

Stage:  92 km  |  1.691 m

Start: h. 8.30 Bolzano Fair 

Finish: Bolzano Fair

Locations: Bolzano, Appiano, Passo Mendola, Fondo, Passo Palade, Lana, Bolzano

Crono:  Appiano/Kalterer Höhe  (km 12,5) –>  Passo Mendola         9,7 km |  666 m

Feed zone after 27 km on Passo Mendola and after 49 km on Passo Palade

Lunch in Bolzano Fair

SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION

We have reached our third day together. The climb up the Passo Mendola is a great way for local cyclists to get into shape for the long summer mountain tours. With 1,363 metres of climbing, the pass is not very high, but its location on the far edge of the Mendola makes it a first-class vantage point. From here, the view extends to the Bolzano basin, Lake Caldaro and the many mountains in the background. It is therefore no wonder that the “Giro d’Italia” and the “Tour of the Alps” have incorporated this climb into their stages. Shortly after Appiano, the timed section begins, where you can test your fitness over approximately 10 km and 670 m of altitude difference. After a break at the Passo Mendola, you descend to the village of Fondo (Trentino), on the border between South Tyrol and Alta Val di Non: here begins the long but rideable climb to the Passo Palade at 1,518 metres asl. Now begins the pleasant descent towards the Adige Valley: in the shade of the woods we let the bike flow until Lana and to Bolzano carefree crossing the large valley with extensive apple trees. Lunch awaits us at the fair.

STAGE 3

 

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