GAP
Avenue d’Embrun

Gap, city of light, shines at the foot of the Bayard Pass, which stands as one of the most striking climate boundaries between the northern and southern Alps. Sports, the arts and the outdoors can be enjoyed in various forms throughout the seasons. Nearly half the inhabitants belong to a sports club. Outdoor leisure is most favored in this region where the sun shines three hundred days a year. Only a few minutes from the city center, the Gap-Bayard resort, one of Europe’s most stunning mountain golf courses in the summer, provides the largest cross-country skiing resort in the southern Alps come wintertime. Gap-Tallard has established itself as one of the leading spots in France for aerial sports and competitive skydiving, while Gap-Céüze’s attracts climbers from all over the world with its famed five kilometers of chalky cliffs.

Town of Gap : www.ville-gap.fr

L'ALPE D'HUEZ
On the right side of Rif Neil road

Located on the southern face of the Grandes Rousses range in Isère department, l’Alpe d’Huez remains the Tour’s marquee stage. A resort dedicated to enjoying life, it is renowned for its sunny weather (three hundred days of sun a year), its state of the art infrastructures, its wide range of outdoor activities on snow and otherwise, and its calendar of artistic and sporting events of international scope.

Very much a Tour de France fixture, l’Alpe d’Huez has witnessed some of the most memorable exploits ever seen on the Grande Boucle. Many cycling greats, the likes of Coppi, Zoetemelk, Hinault, Pantani, and Armstrong, rose to the occasion for this legendary stage.
This year once again, for the 25^th time, the 15 km climb will provide a unique showdown full of emotion, suspense and surprises.

L’Alpe d’Huez : www.alpedhuez.com