The 11th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 26 April to 13 May 1956. It consisted of 17 stages covering a total of , and was won by Angelo Conterno of the Bianchi cycling team. Rik Van Steenbergen won the points classification and Nino Defilippis won the mountains classification.
The race was run with national teams of France, Spain, Switzerland and Belgium, and an additional four regional Spanish teams. Each fielded 10 cyclists, for a total of 90.
Teams and riders
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 26 April Bilbao to Santander 2 27 April Santander to Oviedo 3 28 April Oviedo to Valladolid 4 29 April Valladolid to Madrid 5 30 April Madrid to Albacete 6 1 May Albacete to Alicante 7 2 May Alicante to Valencia 8 3 May Valencia to Tarragona 9 5 May Tarragona to Barcelona 10a 6 May Barcelona to Barcelona Team time trial France 10b Barcelona to Tàrrega 11 7 May Tàrrega to Zaragoza 12 8 May Zaragoza to Bayonne (France) 13a 9 May Bayonne (France) to Irun Individual time trial 13b Irun to Pamplona 14 10 May Pamplona to San Sebastián 15 11 May San Sebastián to Bilbao 16 12 May Bilbao to Vitoria 17 13 May Vitoria to Bilbao Total
Results +Final general classificationRankRiderTeamTime 1 Angelo Conterno Bianchi 105h 37' 52" 2 Jesús Loroño + 13" 3 Raymond Impanis Elvé-Peugeot + 1' 54" 4 Federico Bahamontes + 3' 27" 5 Rik Van Steenbergen + 7' 48" 6 Miguel Chacón Díaz Elvé-Peugeot + 8' 30" 7 Gilbert Bauvin + 19' 18" 8 Brian Robinson + 20' 36" 9 José Serra Gil + 23' 38" 10 Manuel Rodríguez Barros + 24' 55" 11 Emilio Rodríguez 12 Giancarlo Astrua 13 Giuseppe Buratti Bianchi 14 Carmelo Morales Erostarbe 15 Cosme Barrutia 16 Hilaire Couvreur 17 Juan Bibiloni 18 Nino Defilippis Bianchi 19 Arrigo Padovan 20 Antonio Barrutia 21 René Marigil 22 Edgard Sorgeloos 23 Vicente Iturat 24 Giovanni Pettinati Bianchi 25 Remo Pianezzi
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