Saragossa It will be the protagonist of the eighth stage of the Tour of Spain 2025 on August 30 with an end of the route that will cross 32 km of streets of the Aragonese capital. The city continues with its commitment to great sporting events in its objective of becoming European Sports Capital 2027.
A path with special Aragonese prominence
Tour and schedule
The caravan of The return He will enter the city through the neighborhoods of Peñaflor and Montañana and will cross the goal placed on the Paseo María Agustín. The tour will pass through emblematic points of the city such as the Aljafería Palace, Los Pinares de Venice or the Center. The mayor, Natalia Chueca, he has defended the event as “a great showcase that will allow Zaragoza to look in the more than 190 countries from which the return is followed.”
Zaragoza was already one of the destinations chosen for the first round to Spain in 1935. Now, with the return immersed in the celebration of its 90th anniversary, “there are weight arguments to recall that first edition with a different and special proposal,” explained the director of the Vuelta, Javier Guillén.
The Maria Agustín Paseo is the stage chosen for the goal. Photo: Google Maps
A path with special Aragonese prominence
This year’s return will begin on August 23 in the Italian region of Piedmont and will come to an end on September 14 in Madrid. Aragon It will have a large number of kilometers of mountain and city travel.
The landscapes of the Pyrenees will focus all the attention of the seventh stage on Friday, August 30 with an arrival at the goal located in Cerler. The next day, the squad will move to the Oscense town of Monzón to leave the eighth stage that will end in Zaragoza.
The race cyclist par excellence of our country he returned to the Aragonese capital in 2023 after 15 years without visiting it. The City Council and the organizers have decided to draw a large urban circuit that the cyclists will take about 40 minutes to travel after the expectation generated that year in what was a rapid end of the stage and arrival at the finish line.
Tour and schedule
The squad will enter, first, by two rural neighborhoods of Zaragoza: Peñaflor and Montañana, between 16.25 and 16.55 hours. Then, the Gállego river will cross at the height of Santa Isabel to take Catalonia avenue and go to the bridge of La Unión. Once on the right bank, the circuit will travel the Echegaray and Caballero Paseo to the European Plaza and will upload the Paseo de María Agustín to the Puerta del Carmen, where the first runners will arrive between 16.50 and 17.10 hours.
The great novelty is that, this time, the first step by goal will not end the stage, since a circular circuit of another 23.4 kilometers will be ahead of several districts of the city.
The cyclists will rotate at the Puerta del Carmen to Hernán Cortes and the Paseo de Teruel, will take Anselmo Clavé avenue to reach the Aljafería Palace on Escrivá Street in Balaguer and from there they will tour the Avenida City of Soria to the Delicias station. After surrounding the bus terminal and going to Navarra Avenue, the squad will run through Hispanidad to turn right through Gómez Laguna in the direction of Valdespartera.
When it flows into the Iberian road, the circuit will turn right to the roundabout of the N-330 and will access the road of La Fuente de la Junquera to the Paseo del Duque de Alba to climb the Pinares de Venice and go to the third belt at the height of the Municipal Cemetery of Torrero. Due to the Hispanic round, the Avenida de Cesáreo Alierta will be reached, where it will go back into the urban area to the Paseo de la Mina, the Assault Street and, again, the Paseo de Echegaray and Caballero.
From there, the section will be repeated by the Ebro banks to the European Plaza, the Paseo María Agustín and end, this time definitively, in the finish line of the Paseo de María Agustín. The arrival is expected to occur between 5:15 p.m. and 5:45 p.m.
