Most road races begin with a peloton. The Chrono des Nations begins with a rider waiting alone on the starting ramp in Les Herbiers, watching the final seconds disappear from the clock before being released onto the roads of the…
Binche–Chimay–Binche travels through a part of Belgium that looks very different from the country portrayed by the great Flemish spring classics. There are no famous cobbled bergs rising from the fields of East Flanders, no procession of spectators on the…
Lissone → Lissone · 166.7 km · Sunday, 4 October 2026 · UCI 1.1 The Coppa Agostoni takes place entirely inside Brianza, a historical and geographical region immediately north of Milan, where the immense flatness of the Po Valley begins…
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…
The Gran Premio del Lazio is new in its present form, but the landscape it crosses is anything but new. Over 182.35 kilometres, the race travels from Fiuggi in the hills south-east of Rome to Anguillara Sabazia on Lake Bracciano,…
The Trofeo Matteotti is one of those races whose name only becomes meaningful once the history behind it is understood. It is not named after a sponsor, a mountain, a town or a former cyclist. It carries the name of…
A Personal Note There was never really a choice about where this article had to begin. Marco Pantani is the man who brought me to cycling. I have followed many sports, watched great athletes and teams, celebrated victories and lived…
The Giro della Toscana begins and ends in Pontedera, in a part of Tuscany that sits slightly outside the version of the region most familiar to visitors. Florence and Siena are elsewhere, and the great Renaissance monuments that have come…
