Tarancón has hosted this Friday the presentation of the passage through Castilla-La Mancha of the 76th edition of The Cycling Tour of Spain.
The region will host two stages, the 4th from Burgo de Osma to Molina de Aragón and the 5th from Tarancón to Albacete.
The Minister of Economy, Business and Employment, Patricia Franco, has presented these two stages at the Hotel Ánsares in the municipality, a town that opens this year as the start of the round in its 5th stage.
Tourist promotion
Likewise, the counselor has indicated the tourism promotion strategy of the Community, through the window that offers a top-level sports competition which is broadcast live to 189 countries around the world, with a television return equivalent to 117 million euros. Thus, it has estimated that the return for the tourism sector in the region can reach five euros for each euro mobilized by the regional government.
Franco has stressed that the arrival of the La Vuelta caravan supposes “more than 3,000 hotel overnight stays in each stage, mobilizing in each of them around 250,000 euros in hotel and lodging resources ”.
The La Vuelta peloton will pass this year through 15 towns in Castilla-La Mancha, and will premiere a final, in Molina de Aragón, and a stage start, in Tarancón, in a route that will end that day in Albacete.
For his part, director of the Spanish round, Javier Guillén, has reiterated the importance of the tour as a tourist and sports enhancer and has celebrated the effort that municipalities such as Tarancón and Albacete are making an effort to promote the use of bicycles.
Along with Patricia Franco, the director of the Spanish round, Javier Guillén; the general director of Tourism, Commerce and Crafts, Ana Isabel Fernández; the president of the Albacete Provincial Council, Santiago Cabañero; the president of the Cuenca Provincial Council, Álvaro Martínez; the president of the Diputación de Guadalajara; José Luis Vega; the mayor of Albacete, Vicente Casañ; the mayor of Tarancón, José López; and the mayor of Molina de Aragón, Francisco Javier Montes.
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