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Consult the profiles of the mountain stages
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The route
Running from Saturday July 1st to Sunday July 23th 2006, the 93rd Tour de France will be made up of a prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,600 kilometres.
These 20 stages have the following profiles:
* 9 flat stages,
* 4 medium mountain stages,
* 5 mountain stages,
* 2 individual time-trial stages,
Distinctive aspects of the race
* 3 mountain finishes,
* 2 rest days,
* 116 kilometres of individual time-trials (including the prologue)
* 22 Category 1, Category 2 and highest level passes will be climbed
* 9 new stop-over towns: Obernai, Saint-Grégoire, Saint-Méen-le-Grand, Cambo-les-Bains, Val d'Aran - Pla-de-Beret, Montélimar, La Toussuire Les Sybelles, Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Antony.
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| The Stages |
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| The towns |
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Saturday, July 1st |
7,1 km |
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Strasbourg |
(TT) |
| 1 |
Sunday, July 2nd |
184,5 km |
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Strasbourg > Strasbourg |
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| 2 |
Monday, July 3rd |
228,5 km |
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Obernai
> Esch-sur-Alzette |
| 3 |
Tuesday, July 4th |
216,5 km |
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Esch-sur-Alzette > Valkenburg
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| 4 |
Wednesday, July 5th |
207 km |
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Huy > Saint-Quentin
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| 5 |
Thursday, July 6th |
225 km |
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Beauvais
> Caen |
| 6 |
Friday, July 7th |
189 km |
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Lisieux
> Vitré |
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| 7 |
Saturday, July 8th |
52 km |
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Saint-Grégoire
> Rennes |
(TT) |
| 8 |
Sunday, July 9th |
181 km |
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Saint-Méen-le-Grand
> Lorient
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Monday, July 10th |
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Rest day - Bordeaux |
| 9 |
Tuesday, July 11th |
169,5 km |
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Bordeaux > Dax |
| 10 |
Wednesday, July 12th |
190,5 km |
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Cambo-les-Bains
> Pau |
| 11 |
Thursday, July 13th |
206,5 km |
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Tarbes > Val d'Aran - Pla-de-Beret
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| 12 |
Friday, July 14th |
211,5 km |
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Luchon
> Carcassonne
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| 13 |
Saturday, July 15th |
230 km |
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Béziers Méditerranée > Montélimar
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| 14 |
Sunday, July 16th |
180,5 km |
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Montélimar
> Gap |
| R |
Monday, July 17th |
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Rest day |
| 15 |
Tuesday, July 18th |
187 km |
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Gap > L'Alpe d'Huez
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| 16 |
Wednesday, July 19th |
182 km |
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Bourg d'Oisans
> La Toussuire |
| 17 |
Thursday, July 20th |
200,5 km |
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Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne
> Morzine |
| 18 |
Friday, July 21st |
197 km |
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Morzine-Avoriaz > Mâcon |
| 19 |
Saturday, July 22nd |
57 km |
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Le Creusot
> Montceau-les-Mines
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(TT) |
| 20 |
Sunday, July 23rd |
154,5 km |
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Sceaux-Antony
> Paris Champs-Élysées |
| TOTAL |
3 657,1 km |
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