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The best version of a country is offered by top-level cycling. We understand cycling as an unbeatable tool to promote the different attractions of our land, paths, wild coasts and colourful forests. Galicia offers the best setting for the spectacle of major cycling races.
With early editions unworthy of a 2.1 category race, O Gran Camiño is building a record full of top-tier champions.
A journey that began in 2022, where Spanish cycling legend Alejandro Valverde claimed victory (his last as a professional) in a fiercely contested final time trial, followed by two wins for Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard, who dominated each edition he participated in (also racking up 6 stage wins across the two years he competed), and most recently a victory for Canadian Derek Gee, a rising talent who has been impressing the world since 2023 with his remarkable quality. His achievements already include: a stage win in the highly prestigious Critérium du Dauphiné, a ninth-place finish in the 2023 Tour de France (his first and so far only appearance), and a fourth-place finish in the recent Giro d’Italia, battling with the best until the very last day of the race.
The fourth edition of O Gran Camiño offered us another journey through the history, landscape, and heritage of our land.
FROM GALICIA TO THE WORLD
O Gran Camiño kicked off its 2025 edition with an international leap. The first stage beyond our borders took us to Portugal, following the Camino de Santiago routes, to highlight the social, cultural, and above all, sporting ties with our neighboring country. The route started and finished in the Porto District, between Maia and Matosinhos.
From the Rías Baixas to the hinterland
The second stage of O Gran Camiño ’25 — in a year that featured five stages — took place in the province of Pontevedra, the cradle of Galician cycling. A truly “fun” route that began in Marín, in the heart of the Rías Baixas, and moved inland through Pontevedra, finishing in the town of A Estrada. A showcase for the province’s rich diversity.
A time trial at the halfway point
Right at the halfway point of the race, on the last day of February, the international peloton of O Gran Camiño arrived in the province of Ourense for an exciting time trial that paid tribute to both history and the Camino. The stage started in the provincial capital and finished in Pereiro de Aguiar.
The high mountain road
This year, Lugo was the stage for the queen stage of O Gran Camiño, where the cyclists ventured into the high Galician mountains, decisively shaping much of the race’s final standings. The route began in A Pobra do Brollón and concluded at the gateway of the French Way into Galicia: Pedrafita do Cebreiro.
From the sea to the Cathedral
The golden finale of O Gran Camiño ’25 came with the stage in the province of A Coruña, featuring a route that started by the sea in Betanzos and finished at the ultimate pilgrimage destination: Santiago de Compostela. Landscape, history, and tradition pedaled together to crown the winner of the fourth edition of O Gran Camiño: Derek Gee.
The fourth edition of O Gran Camiño offers us another journey through the history, landscape and heritage of our land.
We are proud to be from where we come from. A proposal that is born in Galicia, with a handcrafted soundtrack, with locations typical of the best blockbusters and a cast of actors, the cyclists, who are the best in the world.
Discover the new horizons we have prepared for O Gran Camiño 2025! O Camiño dos camiños!
The best version of a country is offered by first level cycling. We understand cycling as an unbeatable tool to show the different attractions of our land, roads, wild coasts and colorful forests. Galicia offers the best scenario for the cycling spectacle of the great races.
One of the premises we had in mind from the beginning of the project was to take the event to another level, offering different points of view.
In the 2023 edition, we materialised this idea with the use of an FPV drone during the live broadcast. An unprecedented resource, until now, in this type of competition. The device was piloted by Ivan Merino, who leads the national ranking and has extensive experience in Moto GP and Formula 1.
2 hours a day of the best live TV coverage with an audiovisual production at the same level of Grand Tours.
A STORY OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
Galicia is a region of tradition when it comes to cycling, with a great number of names in the history books of cycling, both in old and modern times. Cyclists such as Rodríguez Barros brothers (of whom Delio still holds the record of stage wins in the Tour of Spain with a total of 39), Álvaro Pino, Jesús Blanco Villar, Óscar Pereiro or “deluxe” domestiques that were part of top-level teams during their professional careers such as Marcos Serrano or José Ángel Vidal, are some of the names that are part of the cycling culture.
Moreover, Galicia had for many years a professional race that brought together the best riders of international cycling.
With a first edition dated in 1933 and despite not happening in some years, the palmares of the race is linked with distinguished names of the cycling history of different eras: Salvador Cardona, Julián Berrendero, Vicente Belda, Marino Lejarreta, Laudelino Cubino, Miguel Induráin, Abraham Olano, Laurent Jalabert, Claudio Chiapucci, Andrew Hampsten, Piotr Ugrumov, Gianni Bugno o Frank Vandenbroucke are a few of the stars that participated in some of its editions.
Big names from our land: Delio Rodríguez, Emilio Rodríguez (on 3 occasions), Blanco Villar y Marcos Serrano also had the professional Volta a Galicia in their palmares.
This background is an additional incentive for cycling fans and teams to pay special attention to O Gran Camiño, a new stage race that, despite having its first edition in 2022, has tradition and history already in its favour.
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