The Giro d'Italia is an annual road bicycle race held over 23 days in May and June. Established in 1909 by newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Giro is the second-most well-known and prestigious of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; the others are the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. The race usually covers approximately 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi), passing through Italy and neighboring countries such as France and Switzerland. The race is broken into day-long segments, called stages. Individual finishing times for each stage are totaled to determine the overall winner at the end of the race.
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+Giro d'Italia Grande Partenza hostsYearCountryRegionGrande Partenza hostWinning rider1909 Italy LombardyMilan (Piazzale Loreto)1910 Italy LombardyMilan1911 Italy LazioRome 1912 Italy LombardyMilan Atala–Dunlop1913 Italy LombardyMilan 1914 Italy LombardyMilan 19151916191719181919 Italy LombardyMilan 1920 Italy LombardyMilan 1921 Italy LombardyMilan 1922 Italy LombardyMilan 1923 Italy LombardyMilan 1924 Italy LombardyMilan 1925 Italy LombardyMilan 1926 Italy LombardyMilan 1927 Italy LombardyMilan 1928 Italy LombardyMilan 1929 Italy LazioRome 1930 Italy SicilyMessina1931 Italy LombardyMilan 1932 Italy LombardyMilan 1933 Italy LombardyMilan 1934 Italy LombardyMilan 1935 Italy LombardyMilan 1936 Italy LombardyMilan 1937 Italy LombardyMilan 1938 Italy LombardyMilan 1939 Italy LombardyMilan 1940 Italy LombardyMilan 194119421943194419451946 LombardyMilan 1947 LombardyMilan 1948 LombardyMilan 1949 SicilyPalermo1950 LombardyMilan1951 LombardyMilan 1952 LombardyMilan 1953 LombardyMilan 1954 SicilyPalermo1955 LombardyMilan 1956 LombardyMilan 1957 LombardyMilan 1958 LombardyMilan 1959 LombardyMilan 1960 LazioRome 1961 PiedmontTurin1962 LombardyMilan 1963 CampaniaNaples1964 Trentino-Alto Adige/SüdtirolBolzano1965 San MarinoCity of San Marino1966 MonacoMonte Carlo1967 LombardyTreviglio1968 LombardyCampione d'Italia1969 VenetoGarda1970 LombardySan Pellegrino Terme1971 ApuliaLecce1972 VenetoVenice1973 WalloniaVerviers1974 Vatican CityVatican City1975 LombardyMilan1976 SicilyCatania1977 CampaniaBacoli1978 Aosta ValleySaint-Vincent1979 TuscanyFlorence1980 LiguriaGenoa1981 Friuli-Venezia GiuliaTrieste1982 LombardyMilan1983 LombardyBrescia1984 TuscanyLucca1985 VenetoVerona1986 SicilyPalermo1987 LiguriaSan Remo1988 MarcheUrbino1989 SicilyTaormina1990 ApuliaBari1991 SardiniaOlbia1992 LiguriaGenoa1993 TuscanyPorto Azzurro1994 Emilia-RomagnaBologna1995 UmbriaPerugia1996AtticaAthens1997 VenetoVenice1998 Provence-Alpes-Côte d'AzurNice1999 SicilyAgrigento2000 LazioRome 2001 AbruzzoMontesilvano2002 GroningenGroningen2003 ApuliaLecce2004 LiguriaGenoa2005 CalabriaReggio Calabria2006 WalloniaSeraing2007 SardiniaCaprera2008 SicilyPalermo2009 VenetoLido di Venezia2010 North HollandAmsterdam2011 PiedmontVenaria Reale2012 Mid Jutland (Midtjylland)Herning2013 CampaniaNaples2014 Northern IrelandBelfast2015 LiguriaSan Lorenzo al Mare2016 GelderlandApeldoorn2017 SardiniaAlghero2018Jerusalem DistrictJerusalem2019 Emilia-RomagnaBologna2020 SicilyMonreale2021 PiedmontTurin 2022Central HungaryBudapest 2023 AbruzzoFossacesia 2024 PiedmontVenaria Reale 2025 Durrës CountyDurrës 2026 Burgas Province Nessebar
Countries that have hosted Grande Partenza +Countries that have hosted Grande PartenzaNo.CountryCities3Groningen, Amsterdam, Apeldoorn2Verviers, Seraing1Athens1 Vatican CityVatican City1 San Marino1 Monte Carlo1 Herning1 Belfast1 Jerusalem1 Budapest1 Durrës1 Nessebar
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See also List of Giro d'Italia classification winners Pink jersey statistics List of Grand Tour general classification winners