The route for the 2020 Giro d'Italia has been announced in Milan. The 103rd Corsa Rosa will feature a 58.8 km individual time trial, and the final week will include Monte Bondone, Passo dello Stelvio, Colle dell'Aniello, Col d'Isode (France), and Piacavallo, Madonna di Campiglio, above Bormio Lago di Cancano, and a mountain finish to Sestriere are scheduled. The Giro d'Italia 2020 will begin with an 8.6km individual time trial in Budapest on Saturday, May 9, followed by a 16.5km flat and fast individual time trial in the center of Milan on Sunday, May 31, to determine the Maglia Rosa winner. After three stages in Hungary, the race will fly to Sicily, where after three stages on the island, it will head north along the Adriatic coast. The black ash slopes of Mount Etna will be the first mountain finish on stage 5, and the long, steep climb to Camigliatello Silano in Calabria will also be an early test for the overall contenders. The 2020 Giro d'Italia will also see group finishes on stage 2 in Gyor, stage 3 in Nagykanizsa (Hungary), stage 8 in Brindisi, stage 11 in Rimini, stage 13 in Monselice, and stage 19 in Asti (Piemonte) (251km). A group finish is also expected on stage 19 in Asti (Piemonte) (251km). Other stages in Agrigento, with its Greek temples, and along the Adriatic coast, with short, steep climbs, are also suitable for riders like Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe), who is set to compete in the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career in 2020.

While the 2020 Tour de France has only a final 36 km individual time trial to La Planche des Belles Fils, a steep climb, and a short stage, the Giro d'Italia follows a more traditional Grand Tour route, with over 200 km in the final week There are five stages, three of which include climbs over 5,000 meters. The total race distance is expected to be over 3,579.8 km, with nearly 45,000 m of climbing in all 21 stages. The 33.7km time trial in the prosecco fields of Conegliano on stage 14 and the 16.5km time trial to Milan on the final stage will appeal to Tom Dumoulin, Primoz Roglic (Jumbo Visma), and Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) Could be. New Welsh teammate and 2019 Giro d'Italia winner Richard Kalapas, who attended the route presentation, is expected to target the Corsa Rosa again. Vincenzo Nibali was unable to attend the route presentation as he will be joining his new Trek-Segafredo team in the United States. However, he will represent Italy at the Giro d'Italia and will concentrate on the Tokyo Olympic road race in late July and the World Mountain Championships in Switzerland.

The Giro d'Italia will start outside Italy for the 14th time, with the Grande Partenza and the first three stages taking place in Hungary, and the 8.6km individual time trial on May 9 will start in Budapest's Heroes' Square and follow a route along the Danube River to the old City and finishing in the Castle district. The final 1.5km climb will be the first sectional climb of the Giro d'Italia, with an average gradient of 4%.

Stage 2 is 195 km from Budapest to Gyor, where the mostly flat course is broken up in the finale by a short climb to the Pannonhalma Monastery, 22 km from the finish. The third stage from Székesfehérvár to Nagykanitsa is also flat, and time bonuses could change the race leaders. All three stages seem to offer Peter Sagan a chance to shine in Slovakia and near his home town of Žilina.

UCI rules limit rest days during the Grand Tour, so riders will fly to Sicily immediately after Monday's stage to Nagykanitsa and then race a 136-km stage from Monreale to Agrigento on Tuesday. Agrigento hosted the 1994 World Championships, and Luc Leblanc won the rainbow jersey for France. The riders climb Mount Etna from the lesser-known Ring Agrossa north on stage 5, an 18-km winding climb at 6-7%, ending with 3 km above 10%. Sprint finishes in Brindisi and Vieste will set the stage up for the first rest day on the Abruzzo coast after nine days of racing.

The second week of the race will be a hilly finale with a flat stage to Rimini, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of film director Federico Fellini, before finishing with a 212-km Tortoreto Rido di.

Stage 12 starts and finishes at Cesenatico and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Nove Colli Gran Fondo, one of the first mass participation races, as well as the memory of Marco Pantani. RCS Sport gave this stage 4 stars, suggesting that it will be a hard 205 km stage.

The race heads north to the Vento region, where the Prosecco vineyards will host the stage 14 time trial, a 33.7 km stage similar to the 2015 Giro d'Italia time trial, but shorter. It includes the steep Ca del Poggio climb, which averages 12.7%, some 19%, and ends with another climb before the finish in Valdobbiadene.

Another novelty, stage 15 starts in Livorto, an Italian air force base near Udine, and celebrates the 60th anniversary of the founding of the "Frecce Tricolori" aerobatic jet team; the mountain finish in Piancavallo, won by Marco Pantani in 1998. Three bad roads await before the race.

A second rest day on Monday, May 25, will be the last chance for the overall contenders to refresh before the Giro d'Italia enters the high mountains for the finale.

Stage 16 is a hard ride that starts with a short climb to San Daniele del Friuli, then crosses the Forcella Valbona, Monte Bondone, and Passo Durone before climbing west to the Madonna di Campiglio. 202km long, this stage is the first of three mountain stages with more than 5,000m of climbing. This 202km stage is the first of three mountain stages with climbs of more than 5,000m.

Stage 18 from Pinzolo to Laghi di Cancano is undoubtedly the queen stage of the 2020 Giro d'Italia. It begins with the little-known Campo Carlo Magno and the climb up the Castorin Pass, then heads east through winding hairpins to the legendary Stelvio Pass. The Passo dello Stelvio will be awarded the Cima Coppi prize as the highest peak of the 2020 Giro d'Italia, leading to a fast descent to Bormio and an ascent to Laghi di Cancano. The narrow road is much like the climb of the Lacée de Montvernier, which appeared in the 2015 Tour de France. The former military road cuts through the rocks through several tunnels before turning into a gravel road for the last few kilometers. As if the Giro d'Italia were a response to the Tour de France or the Vuelta a España, it offers dirt roads, epic climbs, and legendary climbs and 200km of racing. The 251-km flat stage from Morbegno to Asti is a purely mobile stage that takes the Giro d'Italia west to the Alps for the final showdown. Stage 20, from Alba to Sestriere, also has more than 5,000 meters of climbing over the course of 200 kilometers. The start is at 21.3 km in Colle della Nierro. The summit marks the border between Italy and France and is a breathtaking 2,744 m. The last time it was climbed was in 2016, when Vincenzo Nibali attacked the summit and Steven Kruijswijk crashed into a snowbank, losing Maria Rosa. After 13 years, the Giro d'Italia will return to the Col d'Isere, a symbol of the Cassé Desert and the 2,360-meter-high French summit. The Giro has entered France seven times in the past, winning the Col d'Iseult. Notably, in 1949, Fausto Coppi rode alone between Cuneo and Pinerolo. The stage descends to Briancon, climbs the Montgenèvre pass, returns to Italy, and finishes in Sestriere.

The Alpine finale was rumored to include an additional 7km dirt section to Monte Freiteve above Sestriere, but race director Mauro Veni was well aware of the extreme weather conditions in Italy in May and the risk of road closures above 2,000m elevation He is well aware of the risks. He will also no doubt have alternative routes in place to avoid the embarrassment of the Tour de France in 2019 when the decisive stage to Tignes was cancelled due to landslides and extreme weather conditions.

The climb to Sestriere will serve to set up the final battle for the Maglia Rosa on the final time trial stage to Milan. Dumoulin snatched the final victory in 2017 in a similar finale, a minute ahead of Nibali and Nairo Quintana. Veni and RCS Sport must be hoping for a similar three-week battle and finish at the 103rd Giro d'Italia next May.