A team time trial kicks off the 2023 Vuelta a España in Barcelona but in an edition where climbing is the theme, the 14.6 kilometre stage includes an uphill finish in Montjuic Park.
The route is most definitely not one for the sprinters, with only four truly 'flat' stages - 7, 12, 19 and the final day in Madrid, and punishing ascents such as the Col du Tourmalet in the same day as the hors categorie Col d'Aubisque, Col du Soulor and Col de Spandelles, and a short but frantic stage finishing on the brutally steep Alto de l'Angliru.
