The organization of the Tour de France, with its director Christian Prudhomme at the helm, has already disembarked in Bilbao to carry out the Gran Départ (the Great Departure) of the 2023 edition, which will start on Saturday, the 1st, in the capital Biscayan.
Until the cyclists start the tour in the vicinity of the San Mamés field, the ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) will establish its nerve center in the Bilbao Exhibition Center (BEC) in Barakaldo.
In the BEC, the largest fairgrounds in the Basque Country, the press room is located, which is expected to be crowded in the coming days because more than two thousand accredited journalists are expected.
That is one of the mammoth figures generated by the French race, which can be experienced in the ‘Fan Park’ located in El Arenal de Bilbao, not too far, although at a certain distance from where the goal of the first stage is located, very close to the emblematic Basilica of Begoña.
With the city little by little turning yellow, the iconic color of the race and of the cyclist who leads the general classification of the event, the most important, one of the first visits that Prudhomme has received has been that of the president of the Basque Nationalist Party, Andoni Ortúzar.
In the conversation they have had, Ortuzar has transferred the director of the Tour, according to the PNV itself, that he hopes that the start of the 2023 Tour, with the first three stages on Basque roads, will be “the best in history” of the most important race on the international calendar.
Ortuzar has trusted that the Basque Country can offer its “best image to the world” these days.
