BURGOS
Updated:15/08/2021 00:44h
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The people of the Vuelta kiss the shield of the black shirts they wear when the success of such a spectacular exit as that of this Saturday in the Cathedral of Burgos, eighth centenary of its construction, a magnificent scene of promotion of the capital is pointed out Castilian. One more of the many cultural places that the round has spread since it decided to take risks with the locations and show the wealth of a country.
That innovative spirit has expanded since 2009, when the race made its second foray abroad to leave from outside Spain for the second time. The famous Assen circuit, the motorcycling cathedral, hosted the start of the Spanish round in Holland.
The succession of original criteria continued with the Night time team time trial held in Seville in 2010. The color of the Andalusian city and the spotlights at night showed an attractive and visual modality. The direction of the Vuelta is concerned, above all, with the television broadcast that is projected to the 190 countries that broadcast the signal.
In 2012 the race started from a unique and global place, Estafeta street where the brave run in the Sanfermines. Sensational those images of cyclists reaching the final stretch of Estafeta. Always in training for creativity, the Vuelta started the following year in a time trial mode from the mussel rafts of Villagarcía de Arousa, on one side the Atlantic Ocean and on the other, the Vuelta.
The third stage of the 2014 Vuelta started from the largest warship in the Spanish Navy, the aircraft carrier Juan Carlos I. Cyclists emerging by bicycle from the interior of a huge ship, another photo for the history of the race.
2015 led to a notorious controversy with the protests of cyclists led by Froome for the innovative route proposed by the race on the Costa del Sol: a time trial that ran on pallets, concrete, marble and albero. The times did not count for the general.
The Pompidou Center of Malaga hosted the start time trial of the 2018 round. Salt flats of Torrevieja the prologue of 2019. With the 2020 pandemic hiatus in Irún replacing the departure in Utrecht, the Vuelta has ended this year on the steps of Burgos Cathedral, one more notch in the territories of Spain.
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