Cronometro Individuale di Roma, a time-trial as it should be. It starts at the Stadio Olimpico, Italy's national stdium. The parcours then goes south in long straight roads, passing Rome's most important train stantion, Roma Termini and the famous Via Appia, until it reaches the EUR-district. The riders, how great there names are, all dissappear into the background of the impressive fascist buidings like the Museo Dello Civilt...
Read moreCronometro Individuale di Roma, a time-trial as it should be. It starts at the Stadio Olimpico, Italy's national stdium. The parcours then goes south in long straight roads, passing Rome's most important train stantion, Roma Termini and the famous Via Appia, until it reaches the EUR-district. The riders, how great there names are, all dissappear into the background of the impressive fascist buidings like the Museo Dello Civiltà Romana, made to make you look worthless.
The riders that can handle with this kind of psychological warfare go north again, following Via Cristoforo Colombo and Via Marco Polo, before reaching Rome's famous city center. After a quick tour round the Vatican and the Tiber, the riders enter the unbelievably technical end zone in the ancient center of Rome. They start at the Piazza del Populo, the making their way down via the Piazza Spagna, then bending their way to the Pantheon. Next they go round Piazza Navona, just before making some tight turns around Caracalla's bathtubs.
The riders can give everything around the Circus Maximus and will give everything on the final straight alongside the Forum Romanum, before making the last turn around the Collosseum. The riders will have given everything at the finishline next to the Arch of Constantine. As said before, Cronometro Individuale di Roma, a time-trial as it should be, but also a very good touristic tour.
