The 2013 Tour de France will be the 100th Tour de France. It is scheduled to start in Corsica, in the city of Porto-Vecchio. The island will host the first three stages.Corsica is currently the only Metropolitan department through which the Tour has never passed and the organisers wanted to combine the 100th edition of the Tour with the Tour’s first ever visit to Corsica.
The tour will be the first to be completed only on French soil for ten years. It will feature a final set of stages which have been described as “brutal”, including three Alpine stages in the last week along with a “viciously hard” time trial. These include a double ascent of l’Alpe d’Huez, the first time the tour will feature a double climb of this scale. The race organisers have released the following details on the type of stages: seven flat stages, five hilly stages, six mountain stages (with four summit finishes), two individual time trial stages and one team time trial stage.