Queen of the Tour of Spain 2025: Altimetry, Tour and where to see

The squad during the twelfth stage of the Cycling Tour of Spain 2025 this Thursday in Laredo (Cantabria). The director of the Israeli team, the Navarro Oscar Guerrero, has assured Efe that they will continue in the return.

Photo: EFE – Javier Lizón

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The Back to Spain 2025 It reaches The anglingits first key event, the first of the two major ports of this edition and the one that has to select the group that will designate the World ball In the penultimate stage.

With departure in Cantabria, in Cabezón de la Sal, the stage of this Friday, the thirteenth, is the first of the two stages of the weekend by Asturian land hard port The second, on Saturday, will end in the Farrapona (1st; 17 km to 6 percent).

Considered by many the hardest port in the worldof those who surely, L'Angliru (special) is a wall of 12.4 km to 10 percent of average unevenness with 7 km tremendous final with sections at 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and up to 23 percent of the dreadful cueña les bells, 3 km from the finish line.

L'Angliru will be the end of a no less fearsome stage that the final risesince it is long for what is stylish in modern cycling, 202.7 km. And it has two other entity ascents just before the final ascension. In fact, it is the longest stage of this 80 edition of La Vuelta.

It is those two high ports of first and located in the final part of the route. La Mozqueta (1st; Km 153.6; 6.3 km to 8.4 percent) and the Cordal (1st; 181.6; 5.5 km to 8.8 percent), both common already in the race.

To the rise to the mozqueta, which marks the last quarter of the stage, The race runs through flat terrain, which begins to be in a slight climb from km 90 with some repect in between.

Day for the great favorite, the double Danish winner of the Tour de France, Jonas Vingegaardand its main rivals. That, after almost two weeks of races, the Portuguese are mainly outlined JOAO ALMEIDA (UAE) and the British Tom Pidcock (Q36.5).

Fernando Escartín, sports director of La Vuelta, highlights “the hardness is concentrated in the final stretch, with the mozqueta and the Cordal, both of the first category, as a prelude to the final climb to the very hard Altu de l'Angliru”.

In addition, he considers that “facing the cueña with almost 200 kilometers on their legs It will be a fire test for favorites“Those who,” if they have a bad day, could say goodbye to the return. “

Tomorrow will be the tenth occasion that the return undertakes L'Angliru and among its victors appear cyclists of the entity of Alberto Contadortwice, the Chava Jiménezwhich opened the history in 1999, Gilberto Simoni, Roberto Heras O Primož Rogličthis the last winner in 2023.