The Tour of Sicily, it is a cycling race which has a bit of the charm of the epic; for the paths, the views, the stones that exude history and the hospitality of the people, unique and typical of the south. The competition is organized by "GS Mediterraneo", under the aegis of Italian Cycling Federation.
The goal of the Giro di Sicilia is to make known places of great beauty and naturalistic value of Trinacria; without neglecting the local gastronomic and artisan products. Within the race, along the route, there will also be timed uphill trials. The 2019 edition includes four stages over five hundred kilometers, which will begin on the twenty-seventh of April and will end on the second of May, in which we will see both tourist cycle sections, and precisely timed.
ASD GS Mediterraneo
The “ASD GS Mediterraneo”, established in 2003 to promote cycling, not only as a sport, but also as a keystone for exploring wonderful territories; thus coming into contact with cultural identities, combining the binomial, "body and mind", stimulating the new generations. About amateur sport, the GS Mediterraneo, believes that it is important to renew cycling, making it dynamic, fun and itinerant. Fans of Cycling are thrilled for the return of great cycling to Sicily!
Finally, the show of two wheels lands on the island with four stages that on paper are beautiful, exciting for the routes. There will be, very suggestive, the spectacular closing uphill, as befits great cycling, on top of Etna. It was forty-two years that the Tour of Sicily was missing from the cycling calendars, and the occasion is finding not only new fans, but many old fans.
The stages of the tour of Sicily
A historic race among the most romantic, full of charm, born in 1907 and interrupted in 1977 which has absolute champions among the winners; like Beppe Saronni and Roger De Vlaeminck, it is long awaited and preparations are in full swing. Along the way, cyclists will have to face extraordinary stages, touching the Colle San Rizzo, Taormina, Milazzo, Petralia Soprana, Palermo, Vittoria, Comiso, and Giardini Naxos.
As we said, the arrival will be onEtna, evoking Contador's victory in 2011 at the Giro d'Italia. Warming up the wheels, on April XNUMXnd at XNUMXpm, in the Exhibition Center "The Chimneys" of Catania, the jerseys of the Giro di Sicilia will be presented. Then the first stop will be Catania - Milazzo with 165 km to go. It will be a mostly flat stage, except for the climb of Colle San Rizzo after Messina. The second tappa it will be two hundred and thirty-six km from Capo D'Orlando - Palermo.
From Capo D'Orlando to Palermo
It will be a stage in which we will see both a path flat, both uphill; first we start sliding along the coast, and then we will go inland in the mountains as far as to Geraci Siculo, Up to Petralia Soprana. Then we will descend again on the coast up to Palermo. The third stage will be Caltanissetta - Ragusa with one hundred eighty-eight km.
The route will unfold inland, between ups and downs, characterized for the most part by a succession of curves for at least one hundred and twenty km. It will come to Victory, where the road will become flat. The fourth stage will go by Giardini Naxos to Etna, with one hundred nineteen Km; divided into two distinct parts. The first section will be the ascent to the summit of Etna, up to 1000 meters high. Then we will descend to the base of the final climb which begins in Nicolosi.
From the Gran Fondo del Mediterraneo to La Domenica Favorita
La "ASD GS Mediterraneo" boasts to his credit the organization of various cycling events, such as the Mediterranean Granfondo, Randonnée Palermo and CX Favorita; and also socio-cultural events such as La Domenica Favorita. Since 2017 the ASD GS Mediterraneo has started a project, which is a "mission" to bring young people to love sport; especially cycling among children aged eight to twelve.
Therefore, the Giro di Sicilia 2019 is an excellent opportunity, and the island is preparing to return to the "big" of great cycling. Those that are expected will certainly be thrilling stages, and red-hot by the cheering that is best organized on social networks, for the eighteen formations at the start, with seven riders each.
