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The Route
A tough summit finish awaits the peloton after a full mountain stage. The route briefly travels up the Valdastico and climbs up the right side of the valley, through Tonezza del Cimone, up to Forcella Valbona. The climb is very long, with steady gradients and several short tunnels along the way, with excellent visibility. After a long descent leading all the way to Calliano, the route takes in the Monte Bondone climb coming from Aldeno (20 km with avg. 6.8% and 15% max. gradients). The stage then descends into Sarche, clears the Passo Durone, and reaches Terme di Comano and Tione di Trento. The road goes up again, starting with a false flat until Pinzolo, and then climbing with 6% avg. gradients until the final 3 km before Madonna di Campiglio.
Final kilometres
In Carisolo, the road begins to climb steadily around 6.5% for 12.5 km. The route flattens out over the last 2 km, after entering the urban area through a short artificial tunnel. The finish line lies on a 650 m long, 6.5 m wide, well-paved tarmac home stretch.
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Host city:
Bassano del Grappa
Overview
In the heart of Veneto, crossed by the river Brenta, the town of Bassano del Grappa is characterized by tourists for its cleanliness, elegance and order.
The two welcoming squares (Garibaldi and Libertà) are protected by refined facades of late medieval buildings, above all stands the town’s civic tower which rises 43 meters.
The town of Bassano del Grappa, at the foot of the Monte Grappa of the same name, the scene of the bloody battles of the First World War, also consists of a vast industrial area specializing in the sectors: Goldsmith, metalworking, furniture.
Food
Among the food and wine specialties of Bassano and its vast area we find dishes of all kinds.
The Bigoli di Bassano, a typical and tasty first course, the Bassano asparagus washed down with Pove del Grappa Olive Oil, and the Polenta and Asiago, to be enjoyed in the coldest months of the year.
Drink
The vineyards of the area produce wines, both red and white, from breganze, to the Montello and Colli Asolani wines to get to the real Grappa di Bassano.
Points of interest
The city of the Ponte Vecchio, the symbol par excellence of the Alpini, is characterized by multiple points of historical and architectural interest.
Bassano del Grappa, a city awarded the Gold Medal for Military Valor, still preserves the memory of what happened during the two World Wars.
The statue of General Giardino that welcomes tourists at the entrance of the city is inevitably turned towards Monte Grappa, where Gaetano Giardino was decisive in resolving the bloody battles held on Monte Grappa.
Madonna di Campiglio
Overview
Madonna di Campiglio, Pinzolo and Val Rendena (western Trentino) are a mosaic of naturalistic beauties where to live a mountain experience 360° around. In these places, the alpine setting shows its best: on the east side there are the Brenta Dolomites-UNESCO World Heritage, on the west side you can admire the shiny glaciers of the Adamello and Presanella.
Food
The traditional food of Val Rendena sinks its roots into a poor past and features wholesome ingredients and exquisitely authentic flavors like the cornflour for polenta, garden produce, herbs and other aromas. Sausages and cheeses, polenta, mushrooms and wild game are typical Val Rendena delicacies.
Points of interest
Dolomiti di Brenta
On 2009, at the Seville Conference Center in Spain, the 21 members of the UNESCO World Council unanimously proclaimed the Dolomites’ Brenta Group to be a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The new World Heritage Site extends to nine Dolomite groups for a total area of 142,000 hectares (over 350,000 acres), plus a buffer area of an additional 85 hectares (210 acres) for a total of 231,000 hectares (over 570,000 acres) across 5 provinces.
The announcement came at the end of a session of the World Heritage Committee in Seville, and the recognition arrived 17 years after the Dolomites’ initial candidacy for this important recognition, which includes the area among the world’s 176 natural jewels for their extraordinary beauty and specific geological features.
Adamello-Presanella mountain groups
There are some peculiarities that make Adamello and Presanella very fascinating: the Presanella mountains have 7 glaciers, while in the Trentino part of the Adamello there are 17 glaciers, among which the Mandrone glacier, the widest of the Italian Alps. Besides, Cima Presanella peak (3558 m.a.s.l.) is the higher mountain of Trentino. On Adamello ridges, between 1914 and 1918, there was the highest battle front of the Great War. Here, at 3.000 m.a.s.l., in snow and ice, the Adamello Gret War took place and today there is a museum dedicated to it in Spiazzo Rendena (20 km from Madonna di Campiglio).
Salone Hofer in Madonna di Campiglio
This prestigious feast hall is inside the Des Alpes hotel, the old alpine establishment. Its name comes from the presence of some paintings in liberty style realized by Gottfried Hofer. The big canvas on the entry wall represents the Brenta Dolomites seen by Monte Spinale mountainside: there are some children that pay homage to the sweet and humble Virgin with Child.
The painting with the vision of the Madonna on Spinale is important because its title gives us the first attestation of the name of Madonna di Campiglio, then confirmed in a monograph written in 1900 dedicated to the resort. On the opposite wall, in two medallions with the gold ground, the painter represented the faces of the Sissi Princess and the Franz Josef Emperor.
3Tre, slalom stadium in Madonna di Campiglio
“3Tre” is the World Cup slalom competition par excellence. It was born in 1948 by an idea of Rolly Marchi as an event made of three competitions (slalom, giant and downhill) and it has always kept intact its glamour and excitement.
On 18th December 2012 the “Canalone Miramonti” ski run will host again this great competition, where many international and Italian ski champions raced in the past, as Alberto Tomba, Zeno Colò, Gustav Thoni, Piero Gros, Ingemar Stemmark