La Vuelta 2025

For yet another year, Madrid will host the final stage of La Vuelta (which is holding its 80th edition in 2025) in a circuit with various laps around the most tourist streets of Madrid, from Puerta del Sol to Calle Mayor, ending with the classic final podium scheduled for 14 September in the Landscape of Light.

The final stage, which will take place in Madrid on 14 September will crown the winner in the Landscape of Light and, as a new feature, it will pass through historic Madrid, enabling the cyclists to go down Calle Mayor, Puerta del Sol, Carrera de San Jerónimo, Gran Vía or Callao.

La Vuelta’s anniversary

La Vuelta 2025 consists of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,151 kilometres, from 23 August to 14 September 2025. The stages are distributed as follows: 4 flat stages (1 with a steep finish); 6 mid-mountain stages; 5 mountain stages; 1 individual time trial; 3 undulating stages with a steep finish; and 2 rest days. 

La Vuelta will start in the Piedmont region, at the foot of the Italian Alps. This is a new and demanding start to the race, in a setting steeped in history and natural beauty. From Italy, the route will move on to the roads of France before entering Spain via Catalonia. The subsequent stages will go to the mountainous Principality of Andorra, the fourth country to be visited in this edition, before returning to Spain to continue towards the conclusion of the race in Aragon, La Rioja, Navarra, the Basque Country, Cantabria, Galicia, Castile and Leon, until reaching Madrid, where one of its iconic peaks will be revisited, along with the traditional circuit through Madrid. 

The route for the 2025 edition pays tribute to some of La Vuelta’s historic mountain passes. The pack will face some of the mountain passes that have marked these nine decades of the competition. Morredero, Cerler and Valdezcaray will once again feature in key moments of this edition.  

There will also be ascents that have marked the race’s recent history, including Andorra, Angliru, La Farrapona or Bola del Mundo. In this nod to tradition, Valladolid will also stand out as the city that hosted the first finish in the history of La Vuelta in 1935 and it will host a decisive individual time trial just four days before the grand final.  

See official route for La Vuelta 2025

Winners of previous editions of the male La Vuelta

• 2024 Primoz Roglic (SLO)
• 2023 Sepp Kuss (USA)
• 2022 Remco Evenepoel (BEL)
• 2021 Primoz Roglic (SLO)
• 2020 Primoz Roglic (SLO)
• 2019 Primoz Roglic (SLO)
• 2018 Simon Yates (GBR)
• 2017 Chris Froome (GBR)
• 2016 Nairo Quintana (COL)
• 2015 Fabio Aru (ITA)
• 2014 Alberto Contador (SP)