What is the name of the Italian Grand Tour cycling race?

What is the name of the Italian Grand Tour cycling race? Giro d’Italia.

The Giro d’Italia, meaning “Tour of Italy,” is Italy’s premier three-week professional road-cycling race. It is one of cycling’s three Grand Tours, alongside France’s Tour de France and Spain’s Vuelta a España. The race is primarily held in Italy, although individual stages sometimes cross national borders.

The first Giro took place in 1909 and was created by La Gazzetta dello Sport to increase newspaper sales. Its route changes every year, combining flat stages for sprinters, time trials, and demanding mountain stages. Modern editions generally include 21 stages spread across roughly three weeks, with rest days between racing blocks.

The overall leader wears the maglia rosa, or pink jersey, a color chosen to match the newspaper’s pink pages. The rider who wins the general classification has the lowest cumulative time, not necessarily the most stage victories. This is why the Giro can be confused with the Tour de France or Vuelta a España: all are Grand Tours, but only the Giro is Italy’s national race. Its nickname, La Corsa Rosa, means “The Pink Race.”