The 2025 Tour de France will begin in Lille, the most important city in northern France, which will host the first stages of the 112th edition, the organizers indicated this Tuesday.
After three years of beginnings outside the borders of France, the Tour will once again give its starting signal in the country that gives its name to the race and the north will once again host the “Grand Depart” for the first time since Dunkirk in 2001.
The organizers indicated that they will give more details about the start of the 2025 edition at a press conference in Lille on the 30th.
But the local press has announced that northern France, on the border with Belgium, will be the scene of the first four stages, before heading west to enter Normandy and Brittany.
The last time the Tour began in France was in 2021 when it was launched from the Breton port town of Brest, after Copenhagen gave up doing so due to the pandemic.
The Danish capital did so the following year, when it became the northernmost start of the Tour in history, followed the following year by Bilbao, which became the southernmost.
Next year the Tour will begin in the Italian city of Florence and, for the first time, it will not end in Paris, which a few days after the end of the French round will host the Olympic Games. The finale will be in Nice, according to the route revealed by the organizers on October 25.
