Sant Joan de les Abadesses (Girona) will host a start of the Volta a Catalunya 2024 fifty years after the last and only visit of the Catalan race to this town, in 1973.
As reported this Monday by the organization of the test, this town in the Catalan pre-Pyrenees, with 3,270 inhabitants and which has an important medieval heritage, will be the scene of the 103rd edition of the Volta, as it was the scene of the 53rd edition half ago. century.
Then, it hosted the end of the second sector of the fourth stage, a 131.4 km day starting in Sant Antoni de Calonge that was won by the Italian Wladimiro Panizza, and also the start of the fifth stage, which ended in Andorra with the victory. from the Basque 'Txomin' Perurena, the final winner of that edition.
The Volta a Catalunya, which will be held from March 18 to 24, has the participation of the 18 best cycling teams in the world guaranteed as it is a test on the UCI World Tour calendar. The Slovenian Primoz Roglic was the winner of the last edition.
