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Head to France for Le Tour
30 Apr 2009
Holidaymakers will be able to visit France in July to experience one of the country's grandest sporting traditions.
The 2009 Tour de France will run from 4 to 26 July, getting underway in Monaco and visiting destinations including Marseille, Montpellier and Perpignan in the first few days.
Crossing the border with Spain on 9 July, the teams will ride through Girona, Barcelona and Andorra before returning to France and heading north to Limoges.
The Tour will also visit Switzerland this year, with stages in Verbier and Martigny ahead of the grand finale on Paris' Champs-Elysees on 26 July.
Highlights of this year's race will include seven mountain stages, three mountain finishes and 55km of individual time trials.
The Tour has been a part of French sporting history since 1903, crowing famous cyclists including America's Lance Armstrong, who won it seven times between 1999 and 2005. The reigning champion is Carlos Sastre of Spain.
Opodo cheap flights, hotels and car hire - let the journey begin!
The 2009 Tour de France will run from 4 to 26 July, getting underway in Monaco and visiting destinations including Marseille, Montpellier and Perpignan in the first few days.
Crossing the border with Spain on 9 July, the teams will ride through Girona, Barcelona and Andorra before returning to France and heading north to Limoges.
The Tour will also visit Switzerland this year, with stages in Verbier and Martigny ahead of the grand finale on Paris' Champs-Elysees on 26 July.
Highlights of this year's race will include seven mountain stages, three mountain finishes and 55km of individual time trials.
The Tour has been a part of French sporting history since 1903, crowing famous cyclists including America's Lance Armstrong, who won it seven times between 1999 and 2005. The reigning champion is Carlos Sastre of Spain.
Opodo cheap flights, hotels and car hire - let the journey begin!
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