Meet the 7 great ports of the next Tour of Spain

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This Saturday 19 of August in the French town of Nimes starts a new edition of the Vuelta Ciclista a España, with a tour highlighting its hardness with many stages with lots of long and hard ports.

In the following article we wanted to highlight 7 large mountain passes, all with an altitude above 1500m and with more than 10km rise.

STAGE 3 - Monday 21 of August

This day the stage ends in Andorra and its most outstanding port is the Coll de la Rabassa.

COLL DE LA RABASSA

• Altitude: M 1.820
• Length: 13,3 km
• Average Slope: 6,8%
• Maximum Slope: 15%

  Photo: abuestaenlamontana.blogspot.com.es

STAGE 11 - Wednesday 30 of August

Stage with end in the Astronomical Observatory of Calar Alto, in Almeria. Its most outstanding ports:

VELEFIQUE

• Altitude: 1.810
• Length: 13,2 km
• Average slope: 8,6%
• Maximum Slope: 15%

  Photo: mapio.net

OBS. ASTRONOMIC CALAR ALTO

• Altitude: M 2.120
• Length: 15,5 km
• Average slope: 5,9%
• Maximum Slope: 12%

Photo: telescopios.org

STAGE 14 - Saturday 2 of September

Stage with end in the town of Valdepeñas de Jaen, in the Alto de la Pandera.

HIGH SIERRA DE LA PANDERA

• Altitude: M 1.830
• Length: 12 km
• Average slope: 7,3%
• Maximum Slope: 13%

Photo: andaluciainformacion.es

STAGE 15 - Sunday 3 September

One of the queen stages of La Vuelta, with more than 4000m of vertical drop. It has more than 50 km of rise in total.

HALT OF HAZALLANAS

• Altitude: M 1.680
• Length: 16,3 km
• Average slope: 5,5%

SIERRA NEVADA. HIGH OF THE MORA. MONACHIL (Summing the rise of El Purche)

• Altitude: M 2.510
• Length: 29 km
• Average slope: 7%
• Maximum Slope: 16%

Photos: El Puerche https://andaluciacicloturismo.com

Sierra Nevada. Alto de la Mora: https://unavueltamejor.files.wordpress.com

STAGE 20 - Saturday 9 of September

Penultimate stage of La Vuelta, and last chance for changes in the general. A route similar to that of 1999 with the ports of Cobertoria, Cordal and Angliru.

ALTO DEL ANGLIRU

• Altitude: M 1.560
• Length: 12,5 km
• Average slope: 10%
• Maximum Slope: 23,5%

Photo: http://www.theworldinbike.com