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Follow the roads that have shaped the Tour de France. These photos put the climbs in view, from Alpe d’Huez’s stacked hairpins to the pale, exposed slopes of Mont Ventoux. The captions point out what makes each road distinctive and where it figures in Tour history.

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Alpe d’Huez
Alpe d’Huez: The road from Bourg d’Oisans climbs through 21 numbered hairpins. Fausto Coppi won the Tour’s first stage…
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Mont Ventoux
Mont Ventoux: Riders climb the bare limestone slopes beneath the summit observatory. Charly Gaul won the first Tour stage…
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Col du Tourmalet
Col du Tourmalet: The road folds across the grassy slopes of this Pyrenean pass. The Tour first crossed it in 1910, when…
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Col du Galibier
Col du Galibier: Switchbacks climb through snow patches near the top of the Galibier. The Tour first crossed the pass in…
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Col d’Izoard
Col d’Izoard: On the approach from the south, the road winds below the scree and rock pinnacles of the Casse Déserte…
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Col d’Aubisque
Col d’Aubisque: The road at the top opens onto a broad view of the Pyrenees. In 2022, the Tour climbed the 16.4 kilometers…
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Col du Soulor
Col du Soulor: The road clings to the mountainside between Aubisque and Soulor. The Tour crossed the Soulor on its 2025…
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Lacets de Montvernier
Lacets de Montvernier: Riders thread a narrow stack of cliffside hairpins during the 2015 Tour. Romain Bardet led into the…
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Puy de Dôme
Puy de Dôme: The summit road curls around the volcanic dome. Jacques Anquetil and Raymond Poulidor’s shoulder-to-shoulder…
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Hautacam
Hautacam: Hairpins fold up this Pyrenean slope toward the ski station. The climb was the finish of a mountain stage in 2022…
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Col de la Croix de Fer
Col de la Croix de Fer: Spectators line the road below the pass on a Tour race day. The Croix de Fer is one part of an…
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Col du Télégraphe
Col du Télégraphe: The road from Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne climbs through forest to reach the Télégraphe. In the 2026 Tour…
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Col de Joux Plane
Col de Joux Plane: The road climbs through open pasture near the top. In 2023, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar fought so…
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Col de la Colombière
Col de la Colombière: The road crosses an open saddle between grassy slopes. Julian Alaphilippe went over the Colombière…
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Col de la Loze
Col de la Loze: The paved bike route pitches steeply in places above the ski resorts. On its second Tour appearance, in…
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Cime de la Bonette
Cime de la Bonette: The road skirts a steep gray slope on its way around the summit. At 2,802 meters, the Cime de la…
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Col de Vars
Col de Vars: The road climbs high above the valley toward the Col de Vars. In 2024 it was the first of three major ascents…
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Col d’Aspin
Col d’Aspin: Hairpins zigzag through wooded slopes on the climb from Arreau. The Tour used the Aspin and Tourmalet together…
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Luz Ardiden
Luz Ardiden: Tight bends climb above the valley toward the ski station. Tadej Pogačar won at the top on the final mountain…
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Grand Colombier
Grand Colombier: The road above Culoz repeatedly doubles back along the hillside. On the Tour’s 2020 summit finish here…
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Col de la Madeleine
Col de la Madeleine: The road bends through open pastures on the ascent from La Chambre. The Tour covered 19.2 kilometers…

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