2025 Vuelta a España will see riders head back into terrible Alto de l'Angliru according to report

The 2025 Vuelta a España will have an unusual start, one in Italy, but slowly we can start to piece together the route. Little is known, but a report suggests that next year we could already see the return of one of the race's most mythical climbs: the Alto de l'Angliru!

This is reported by La Nueva España who write that this week, race director Javier Guillén travelled to the region and had a meeting with a representative of the Asturias region and that a deal had been reached when it came to hosting two stages. This would be two summit finishes...

One of them at the Alto de l'Angliru, climb made famous in the past decades and perhaps the most recognizable mountain of the race's history. It has seen iconic names take victories atop it and most recently it hosted a dramatic internal battle between the Team Visma | Lease a Bike riders. Primoz Roglic took the win on that day in the third week, but that was after dropping his teammate and race leader Sepp Kuss. Jonas Vingegaard followed Roglic, and without attacking came only seconds to Kuss' red jersey. Repeating that drama would be quite difficult, but in 2017 Alberto Contador's victory was not too far from the same spectacle.

The other stage would likely go through some of the region's classics and then end in La Farrapona, most commonly known as the final climb in the 2014 race where Chris Froome and Alberto Contador battled for the red jersey. It was most recently used in 2020 and on both occasions it featured the climbs of the Alto de la Cobertoria and Puerto de San Lorenzo beforehand, making it a brutal day in the mountainns where the weather also frequently plays a big role.

After hosting the start of the 2024 Giro d'Italia and a finale of the Tour de France in the same year, the city of Torino will most likely also take in the start of the route and the region of Piedmonte will likely take in 4 stages before the peloton flies back to Spain where it would likely restart racing in the Basque Country. The route will be revealed in December.