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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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Col de l’Iseran
Col de l’Iseran: The road loops across the mountainside above Val d’Isère. When hail and ice made the route impassable…
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La Planche des Belles Filles
La Planche des Belles Filles: The road rises out of the wooded Vosges onto the ski area’s grassy slope. In 2020, Tadej…
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Plateau de Beille
Plateau de Beille: The Tour caravan fills the road to Plateau de Beille in this 2007 photo. The same climb was the 2024…
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Col du Granon
Col du Granon: The road from Saint-Chaffrey bends across open slopes toward the pass. Greg LeMond took yellow here from…
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Col de Peyresourde
Col de Peyresourde: A broad bend cuts across the green hillside above Bagnères-de-Luchon. In 2016, Chris Froome attacked…
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Port de Balès
Port de Balès: The road curves through open pasture near the saddle. In 2010, Andy Schleck dropped his chain on the ascent…
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Col du Portet
Col du Portet: The final hairpins climb an exposed slope above Saint-Lary-Soulan. Nairo Quintana won the short 65-kilometer…
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Luchon-Superbagnères
Luchon-Superbagnères: The road doubles back on the climb from Bagnères-de-Luchon to the ski station. Superbagnères was a…
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Col de la Couillole
Col de la Couillole: The road cuts into the southeast side of the pass. Tadej Pogačar won the 2024 stage from Nice that…
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Col de Sarenne
Col de Sarenne: The narrow road turns across an exposed Alpine hillside. The Tour climbed the Sarenne before the final…
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Pra-Loup
Pra-Loup: The road climbing to this southern Alpine ski resort decided the race in 1975. Bernard Thévenet caught Eddy…

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