Overview
- Barcelona activated a public 100‑day countdown Thursday as Mayor Jaume Collboni and Tour director Christian Prudhomme lit the Arc de Triomf yellow, with Tarragona and Granollers staging parallel events.
- The opener will be a 19‑kilometre team time trial from the Fòrum to the Olympic Stadium on July 4, and organizers project about 300,000 spectators along the city route.
- The program sets a free team presentation on July 2 between the Sant Pau complex and the Sagrada Família, followed by Stage 2 from Tarragona to Montjuïc on July 5 and Stage 3 from Granollers to Les Angles on July 6.
- Teams begin rolling in around June 30 under UCI rules that keep riders near the start, with pre‑race anti‑doping checks on July 1 and morning training windows planned around Castelldefels.
- Volunteer sign‑ups are open for people 16 and older who speak Catalan, Spanish or French and can attend training to help with public information and logistics.