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Details of the last of the three Grand Tours, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Vuelta a España, are slowly emerging, with two important factors – a reduction in the number of summit finishes and the absence of the Pyrenees from the 2014 race – report by sports daily AS on Friday.

According to AS, after starting in Jerez de la Frontera in Spain’s deep south on August 23rd with a 🔴team time trial, the race will head north and east through Andalusia – w💜here it will spend a week – Castilla-La Mancha and Aragon, but will avoid the Pyrenees, Catalonia and the Basque Country.

In a very tough second and third wee🤪k in the northern regions of Cantabria and Asturias, the Vuelta will feature three summit finishes on successive days from September 6th to 8th: one new ascent, the Camperona; the much better known Lagos de Covadonga, first used in 1983 and home to some of the last wolves in Europe; and the Farrapona.

A lengthy final spell in Galicia will conclude with an ascent of the Ancares (possibly, but not definitively a summit finish) and the last day time trial (reportedly not at nighttime, as wa🌠s previously thought) through the streets of Galician capital Santiago de Compostela on September 14th.

The Vuelta route is set to be unveiled officially on January 11th, 2014 in Cadiz.