The Giro di Campania brings professional cycling to southern Italy through a region of volcanic landscapes, ancient settlements and roads stretching between the Apennines and the Mediterranean. Revived in 2026 after decades away from the professional calendar, the race reconnects modern cycling with a name whose history reaches back to the early twentieth century.
Around the Peloton explores the Giro di Campania through the territory itself, following the race past historic towns, archaeological landscapes and communities shaped by Greek, Roman and later southern Italian history, revealing one of the most culturally layered settings in Italian cycling.
Twenty-five years after professional cycling last contested the Giro di Campania, the race returns with a route designed to cross the region rather than simply borrow one of its famous landscapes. Over 193.1 kilometres, it passes through all five provinces…
