Virtually confirmed - 'Mini Strade Bianche' on stage 9 of the 2025 Giro d'Italia with gravel and finale in Siena

The Giro d'Italia route will be announced in a few weeks and several details are already known. Besides the start in Albania, one stage finale in Slovenia and a few arrivals in the Alps and big cities of the Italian nation, one thing can be assured: The peloton will race through the Strade Bianche gravel sectors and end stage 9 at the iconic Piazza del Campo in Siena.

This is something that has already been rumoured for several months now but it is a certainty according to CicloWeb who report that the ninth stage of the race, the last of the first week, will feature five gravel sectors and have it's finale in Siena, most likely after tackling the very steep Via Santa Caterina on the way up to the town square where the spring classic ends every year.

This will be a crucial moment to the race taking into consideration that it will come in the first week, still before big gaps are created in the GC fight. In recent years the race organizers have played around with gravel stages in the region of Tuscany but usually with a finale elsewhere. In Siena, differences are assured with the hilltop finish even if the treacherous and tense gravel sectors don't do it fully. Excitement for the route reveal is at an all-time high as almost everyday new details surge about the route - which is set to have many mountain stages with the most difficult ascent not being the final climb.