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P 822 DEPARTURE 788 862 DEPARTURE tively. Starting from Paesana (614 m above ra valley.614 700 Departure from Dronero (625 m). Paesana (614 m) mean sea level), the road climbs easily.Then there Afterwards there is an easy nearly 20 km Dronero (625 m) ARRIVAL is a series of hairpin bends until the junction for stretch leading up the valley touching San ARRIVAL km 00 Pian del Re (2020 m) Oncino.After passing the junction for Ostana, it Damiano Macra (745km 20,550m), Bedale (818 m), The Sampeyre Pass km 35,400 a n e

climbs upwards with a few demanding hairpin and Stroppo (910n m). After leaving the valley (2284 m) l o a A

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the Cottian from the . The the “Giro”. In 2000 Stefano Garzelli was the i r a

climb can be tackled starting either from Vi- first across the finish line thus moving into the u

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nadio (904 m) or Pietrkm 20,550aporzio (1246 m). top positions and eventuallykm 30,000 winning in Milan. a

Colle della Maddalena Prato Nevoso (1615 m) S After Pontebernardo, home of the cross- So it is a tricky uphill climb.km 14,500 We are in the Mon- km 15,000 (1996 m) o l a d e LENGTH d d i b r a

country skiing champion Stefania Belmondo, regalese area,e in the Maudagna valley: you r colle maddalena n colle sampeyre a sant'anna vinadio A r e a

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COLLE DELLA BOSSEA LOMBARDA ENTRACQUE VALCASOTTO GARESSIO S. ANNA LIMONE P. DI VINADIO TERME DI VALDIERI FRANCIA ISOLA 2000 26 27 The “Giro d’Italia” The “Giro d’Italia” mountains mountains COLLE COLLE 5 FAUNIERA DELL’ AGNELLO 6 The “Giro” discovered Fauniera in 1999.You A legendary climb. The Agnello Pass has a VALLE realize at once that it is one of those climbs place in cycling lovers’ hearts. At an altitude VALLE GRANA that make the difference: 14.4 km long, an of 2748 m it is the third highest pass in Euro- VARAITA altitude difference of 1687 m with an aver- pe (after Bonette and Stelvio): it is a truly DEPARTURE age gradient of 9.5%. To reach the altitude striking climb. We start off from Sampeyre DEPARTURE Pradleves (824 m) of 2511 m of the Fauniera Pass, the cyclists (971 m) in the heart of the Varaita valley. The Sampeyre (971 m) INTERMEDIATE start out from the Grana valley, famous for its road begins climbing near Casteldelfino ARRIVAL Colle Fauniera (2511 m) cheese named Castelmagno. The road starts (1296 m) with a series of very demanding Colle dell’Agnello a n

climbing in Pradleves (822 m) and enters a hairpin bends, and again before the lake of (2748 m) n A

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P 822 788 862 m 1687 Magno’s Shrine (1761 m). Keep climbing sections614 700 of 14% and the last one that reach- AVERAGE GRADIENT for the remaining 6.7 km to the peak. There es 18%) and the altitude. A spectacular view AVERAGE GRADIENT 9.30 % (from Chianale) are really tough hairpin bends for the last 2 welcomes us on the top: we can see Monviso 9.50 % km 00 MAX GRADIENT km. The downhill ride leads to the Stura val- mountain, the Provençalkm 20,550 valleys of Cuneo and km 35,400

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