From the beautiful shores of lake Annecy – the backdrop to the greatest and most spectacular time trials of the Tour de France, onwards to the dizzying hairpins of le lacets and to the mythical slopes le Croix de Fer and Alpe d’Huez – the scene of some of the greatest and memorable battles in the history of the le tour before riding onwards to arguably the most iconic mountain and spiritual home of cycling – the sleeping giant of Provence… Mont Ventoux!
