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2017 Tour de France stages: (ITT = individual time trial)

Stage	Date	Route	Distance
1	Saturday, July 1st	Düsseldorf / Düsseldorf, ITT	14 km
2	Sunday, July 2nd	Düsseldorf / Liège	203.5 km
3	Monday, July 3rd	Verviers / Longwy	212.5 km
4	Tuesday, July 4th	Mondorf-les-bains / Vittel	207.5 km
5	Wednesday, July 5th	Vittel / La planche des belles filles	160.5 km
6	Thursday, July 6th	Vesoul / Troyes	216 km
7	Friday, July 7th	Troyes / Nuits-Saint-Georges	213.5 km
8	Saturday, July 8th	Dole / Station des rousses	187.5 km
9	Sunday, July 9th	Nantua / Chambéry	181.5 km
Rest day	Monday, July 10th	Dordogne / Dordogne
10	Tuesday, July 11th	Périgueux / Bergerac	178 km
11	Wednesday, July 12th	Eymet / Pau	203.5 km
12	Thursday, July 13th	Pau / Peyragudes	214.5 km
13	Friday, July 14th	Saint-Girons / Foix	101 km
14	Saturday, July 15th	Blagnac / Rodez	181.5 km
15	Sunday, July 16th	Laissac-Sévérac l'église / Le Puy en Velay	189.5 km
Rest day	Monday, July 17th	Le Puy en Velay
16	Tuesday, July 18th	Le Puy en Velay / Romans-sur-Isère	165 km
17	Wednesday, July 19th	La Mure / Serre-Chevalier	183 km
18	Thursday, July 20th	Briançon / Izoard	179.5 km
19	Friday, July 21st	Embrun / Salon-de-Provence	222.5 km
20	Saturday, July 22nd	Marseille / Marseille, ITT	22.5 km
21	Sunday, July 23rd	Montgeron / Paris Champs-Élysées	103 km

2017 Tour de France route and distinctive aspects of the race:

Running from Saturday July 1st to Sunday July 23rd 2017, the 104th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,516 kilometres.

9 flat stages
5 hilly stages
5 mountain stages including altitude finishes (La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Izoard)
2 individual time-trials stages
2 rest days

HEXAGON + 3
The 104th Tour de France will visit three neighboring countries: Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg. In France, 34 counties will be visited.

25 YEARS AFTER...
It hadn’t happened since 1992. The five main mountain ranges of France will be on the program in 2017. The Tour will visit, in the following order, the Vosges, the Jura, the Pyrenees, the Massif Central and the Alps. The highlight will be the very first stage finish at the top of the Col d’Izoard.

OPENING AND (ALMOST) FINISH IN SOLO
It’ll be after a 13-kilometre time-trial in the streets of Düsseldorf that the first Yellow Jersey of the 2017 Tour de France will be awarded. In Marseille, after the 20th and penultimate stage, a 23 kilometre time-trial, the winner of the 104th edition of the Grande Boucle will be crowned.

BONUSES
Re-introduced in 2015 after a seven-year absence, bonus seconds will again be up for grabs at the finishes of all the normal stages. There will indeed be 10, 6 and 4 seconds to be gained for the first three of each stage.

POINTS
The green jersey will be awarded to the leader of the points classification. These points will be given out at the finishes of each stage as well as on the unique intermediate sprints of normal stages.
The polka-dot jersey will be on the shoulders of the leader of the best climbers’ classification. Points will be awarded at the top of each Col or Côte and the three altitude finishes (La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Izoard).

2017 Tour de France route presentation, October 18, 2016:

The course of the 104th Tour de France (1-23 July, 2017), which was unveiled before an audience of almost 4,000 people at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, stands out for its atypical mountain stages. Although there will be fewer climbs than usual, their steeper gradients will separate the men from the boys. From the time trial in Düsseldorf to the one in Marseille on the eve of the finish, there are plenty of hat-tips to tradition. Inspiration for the brave.

Key points:
- 30 years after the 1987 Grand Départ in Berlin, the Tour will start in the German city of Düsseldorf and later head to Belgium and Luxembourg.
- The course of the 2017 Tour de France will feature France's five mountain ranges. Tour favourites will go head-to-head on steep gradients. The Izoard will host the last summit finish.
- Exceptional locations such as Marseille's Stade Vélodrome and the Grand Palais in Paris will roll out the red carpet for the peloton.

Vosges, Jura, Pyrenees, Central Massif and Alps —the 2017 Tour de France will tackle France's five major mountain ranges in this order. 1992 was the last time this mountainous Grand Slam was in the race. The new features it is rolling out this time around will raise eyebrows: the queen stage will tackle the Jura mountains between Nantua and Chambéry (Col de la Biche, Grand Colombier and Mont du Chat, for a total altitude gain of 4,600 m!); pretenders to the crown will go head-to-head in the Pyrenees in a 100 km stage from Saint-Girons to Foix; sections approaching a 20% gradient will provide fertile ground for attacks on La Planche des Belles Filles and Peyragudes; and the race will be decided in a spectacular climax on the Izoard, a fabled climb which will set the scene for the concluding mountain showdown in its first stage finish ever.

Mountain goats, however, will not have all the fun, and they will have to fight for the yellow jersey in a time trial on the Mediterranean coast, with the finish line right in Marseille's Vélodrome stadium. The last time a stage finished in a football ground was in Bordeaux's Parc Lescure in 1979. Less than 24 hours later, the peloton will be in Montgeron —start of the 1903 Tour— for the final stage, which will see them ride indoors in the prestigious Grand Palais. The Champs-Élysées will see a fast-man apotheosis to cap a series of sprints which will start in Liège and probably continue in Vittel, Troyes, Nuits-Saint-Georges and Romans-sur-Isère. Time to settle old scores…

La Course: the girls take the Izoard
Since 2014, the Tour de France has leveraged its fame and know-how to support women's cycling by organizing La Course, a prestigious event for the world elite, which has been held three times on the Champs-Élysées finishing circuit in Paris. The fourth edition will send the ladies on a mountain quest: just a few hours before the men's peloton, they will light the first fireworks in the final 66 kilometres of the stage from Briançon to the Izoard. Sprinters will be nowhere to be seen on the final ascent, described by Jacques Goddet as "[a] harrowing trial which establishes the boundary between difficult and terrifying". The girls will bring back memories of riders such as Gino Bartali, Fausto Coppi, Louison Bobet and Bernard Thévenet as they tackle the 10 kilometers leading to Casse Déserte, which boast an average gradient of over 9%. Welcome to the Alps, ladies.

Imagine the Tour finds its poster boy
For the first time ever, the design of the Tour de France visual was decided in a public contest which invited all graphic designers in love with the Grande Boucle to imagine the poster of the 2017 edition. Over 300 submissions were received and evaluated by a jury made up of seven celebrities. 20-year-old Alexis Boulivet's entry was declared the winner. The Concept Art student will be rewarded with a cheque for €5,000 and an invitation to a one-day VIP outing on the roads of the Tour de France.

Étape du Tour: thousands of cyclosportive riders in Casse Déserte
Ever since 1993, the Étape du Tour has given amateur cyclists the unique opportunity to tackle a Tour de France mountain stage just a few days before the elite peloton. 15,000 cyclosportive riders are expected to make this event the highlight of their 2017 season. It will be held on the course of the stage from Briançon to the Izoard on Sunday, 16 July.

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