Asturias tour

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The Tour of Asturias (Spanish Vuelta a Asturias ) is a Spanish road bike race .

The stage race runs through the autonomous community of Asturias and is held over two stages in late April or early May. In earlier years the race had up to seven stages and took place in June. The race has been part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005 and is classified in category 2.1. Since 2008 the race has had the suffix Julio Alvarez Mendo after the President of the Asturian Cycling Federation, who died in the same year.

From 2011 to 2013, the Subida al Naranco race was integrated into the tour as a stage.

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Individual evidence

  1. La Nueva España: Muere Julio Álvarez "Mendo". In: lne.es. February 23, 2008, accessed April 30, 2019 .