The Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain) 2013

The route for the 2013 La Vuelta was unveiled in Vigo on Saturday the 12th of January and it will feature a mountainous course which will favour the climbers.

There will be 2 packages to the 2013 Vuelta, a trip to the 3 Andalusian mountain stages, and a trip to the final week, from Andorra to Madrid.

The 68th edition will go back to traversing the entire country. Following its start in the north-west, riders will have to fend off the extreme August heat of southern Andalucia before returning to the north for a series of gruelling mountain challenges.

The course becomes more difficult for sprinters as the days go by with the race's single individual time trial coming on the 11th stage. Three days later riders leave Spain through the Andorran Pyrenees, before entering France for a critical 15th stage which ends in the Peyragudes summit.
Riders will face 13 mountain stages in all.

The Vuelta a España or Tour of Spain is an annual multi stage race held in Spain. Along with the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia, the Vuelta makes up cycling's prestigious, three week-long Grand Tours.

While the route changes each year, the format of the race stays the same with the appearance of at least two time trials, the stages that take place in the Pyrenees and the finish in the Spanish capital Madrid. The recent editions of the Vuelta a España have consisted of 21 days of riding over a 23-day period that includes 2 rest days. The winner of the Vuelta wears the red jersey.

The 2012 edition of the Vuelta was won by Alberto Contador of Team Saxo Bank.

The 68th edition of the Vuelta a España will take place between the 24th of August and the 15th of September 2013.

3 Andalusian mountain stages - 30th August to 3rd September 2013 This trip to the 2013 Vuelta is from Friday the 30th of August 2013 until Tuesday the 3rd of September and it will take in the 3 Andalusian mountain stages. This tour is for those people who have a limited amount of time to watch the 2013 Vuelta a España, but want to see the most exciting and dramatic stages.

The Final Week - 6th to 16th September 2013 On this tour you will follow the final week of the 2013 Vuelta a España from Andorra, through the Pyrenees and and onto the northern Spanish coast before finishing in Madrid. Packed into this final week are no less than 7 mountain top finishes, one of them being a massive 232km stage from Andorra to the French ski station of Peyragudes (site of a stage finish in last year's Tour de France). The penultimate stage of La Vuelta will be the decisive stage as it finishes atop one of the most feared climb in cycling, El Angliru.

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