A very compact Giro delle Dolomiti will take place from 21 to 25 July 2025. All passionate amateur cyclists can not only already look forward to it but also register to take part. The 48th edition of the prestigious tour through the unique mountain scenery of Trentino-South Tyrol comprises five stages and has two absolute treats to offer with the circumnavigation of the Sella massif and the Passo Stelvio. As usual, the field rides the greater part of the individual stages together and at a controlled speed. However, each section also includes a short mountain time trial, which is essential for determining the overall winner. The GIRO DELLE DOLOMITI will offer you the best road biking routes. The efforts of the classic Dolomite climbs are rewarded with unforgettable panoramic views in a UNESCO-protected scenery. Experience the most wonderful cycle routes up to famous peaks, through steep-sided valleys flanked by towering turrets of rock. If you’re fit and like climbing, register now!
Description
The first stage of the Giro delle Dolomiti 2025 bring participants from Bolzano to Pietralba, a pilgrimage site famous throughout the world. After completing the section of the Crono from the Aldeno bridge to Monte San Pietro, you return to the starting point through the Val d’Ega. This stage is followed by a classic of the Dolomites, the tour of the 4 passes around the Sella Group, better known as Sellaronda, in 2025 in an anti-clockwise direction with the timed route from “Lupo Bianco” to the Pordoi Pass. But this is only one of the 4 passes: the Sella, Campolongo and Gardena passes must also be overcome. The 3rd day offers a wonderful bike tour on 2 traditional climbs, not far from the provincial capital of Bolzano: once you reach the Mendola and Palade Passes you return via Lana to the Bolzano Fair. In the 4th stage the Stelvio Pass (Crono) is scheduled, awaited by many cycling enthusiasts. After the transfer from Bolzano to Alta Val Venosta we cycle from Trafoi to face the famous Stelvio climb and go, passing via Müstair to Glorenza. In the fifth and final stage we explore the wonderful mountainous area of ​​Monzoccolo, between Meltina and Avelengo, before returning to Bolzano via Merano.
the Race
For the 48th edition of the famous cycling event, the non-profit association ASD Giro delle Dolomiti, which has organised the event since 1977, has come up with a new formula with five stages this year, which will be cycled from Monday 21st to Friday 25th July, 2025. This is one of the significant changes for the next Giro delle Dolomiti, which every year attracts hundreds of enthusiastic participants from all parts of the world to Italy's northernmost province. “It is a kind of return to our roots. Only one section of each stage is timed - the mountain time trial. The time achieved is included in the overall ranking. We also opted for a more compact event without interruptions. This enables visitors from further afield to choose whether to add the weekend to their stay and fill it with their own preferred activities”, Bettina Ravanelli, busy President of the ASD Giro delle Dolomiti explained.
In fact, every year many enthusiasts from outside the province come to South Tyrol to take part in the Giro delle Dolomiti. Its international popularity is enormous and should remain so in the future. "Every day we will set off from Fiera Bolzano, the logistical centre of the event, towards the South Tyrolean and Trentino mountains. This year's stages are full of charm and offer participants the opportunity to admire unique landscapes while climbing the wonderful classic Dolomite passes and immortalise their experiences with beautiful photos. Many of these climbs have been locations for the Giro d'Italia in recent years," Ravanelli added: “We hope that we can again welcome many participants. Our team is highly motivated and passionately engaged in ensuring that the 6th Giro delle Dolomiti will be an unforgettable experience for all cyclists who participate in our event in the last week of July.” An event in which the cyclists cover a whopping 503.5 kilometres and an altitude differential of 11,509 metres.
Ways of participating:
a) Giro delle Dolomiti: all 5 stages from JULY, 21st to 25th, 2025
b) Single Stage/s: any single stage from JULY, 21st to 25th, 2025. For those who cannot ride the whole week, we hold tickets also for single days. Sleeping always in the same hotel makes logistics easy.
The participation at the event is open toall cycling amateurs between 16 and 75 years old, members of ACSI, F.C.I.or other Italian promotionalsportorganizations, as well as foreign cycling amateurs with a valid 2025 UCI license issued bythe national cycling federation. Participation is allowedtoall cycling amateurs. Also sports men with no UCI licence, can ride in the event, but must bring a valid health certificate (see Art. 4M.D.16/24.04.2013 ) as well as an Ethic Declaration; both of them can be uploaded on www.girodolomiti.com. Professionals and/or the elite cyclists are admitted only for promotional purposes and will not be registered for the overall standing
A Health Certificate is indispensable for a regular registration. In case it is missing, you will automatically lose the right to take part in the eventand any deposit paid for enrolment will be forfeited.
Each stage will include a timed free-speed sections and is valid for the final ranking. At the end of each stage all rankings will be displayed at the Fair grounds and also published on the website www.girodolomiti.com. To be ranked in the Giro delle Dolomiti competitors are required to complete all stages. The Organising Committee reserves the right to properly modifyany stage incaseof arising situations which may compromisethe safety of competitors or the successful conclusion of the event.
Tecnical details
Date of the Giro delle Dolomiti: July, 21st - 25th, 2025
Starting place: Bolzano, South Tyrol - Italy
Total distance: 500 km / 11.000 m of climbing
Total distance of timed sections: 62.1 km / 4.756 m elevation gain
STAGES 2025
STAGE 1: PIETRALBA - MARIA WEISSENSTEIN
Monday, July 21st, 2025
Stage: 75 km | 1.529 m
Start: h. 9.00 Bolzano Fair
Locations: Bolzano, Ora, Aldino, Pietralba, Nova Ponente, Rauth, Cardano, Bolzano
Crono: Ponte di Aldino/Aldeiner Brücke (km 26) –> Monte San Pietro/Petersberg > 16,2 km | 628 m
Feed zone after 39 km in Maria Weissenstein/Pietralba
SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION
We cycle from Bolzano in a southerly direction to Laives/Leifers and continue on roads with little traffic to Ora/Auer, where the road leads up in several bends along a steep porphyry wall and finally flows onto a natural terrace. After a short, relaxing stretch of flat land, you turn off at “Brückenwirt” onto the road to Monte San Pietro/Petersberg. The start of the timed section is at the parking lot in front of the bridge. The next 9.5 km and 590 m of climbing to the finish line in Monte San Pietro/Petersberg have to be covered in “race mode”. In Aldein/Aldino the worst is over and you can start the final spurt. After the finish arch, the road leads to the highest point of the day, to Pietralba/Maria Wessenstein, South Tyrol’s most important pilgrimage site with the imposing basilica, in whose shadow the refreshment station awaits the cyclists. Freshly strengthened, you roll over the Reggelberg plateau, on the western edge of the Fiemme Valley Dolomites, to Nova Ponente/Deutschnofen. In Rauth you reach the road to valley of Eggental. Now you can put your feet up, because the 20 km to Cardano/Kardaun is a single flowing descent. From here, the last few kilometers are covered in a relaxed manner until you arrive in Bolzano: There in the trade fair, a well-deserved lunch awaits all cyclists.
STAGE 2: SELLARONDA
Date: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
Stage: 107 km | 3.100 m
Start: h. 8.00 in Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck
Finish: in Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck
Locations: Ponte Gardena – Selva Val Gardena – Passi Sella, Pordoi, Campolongo – Corvara – Passo Gardena – Ponte Gardena
Crono Lupo Bianco – Passo Pordoi (at km 40) —> 6,1 km | 422 m
Feed zone in Plan de Gralba + Passo Pordoi
Lunch in Corvara
SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION
This stage takes you into the heart of the Dolomites. From Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck you go directly in the Gardena valley passing through the villages of Ortisei/St. Ulrich, Santa Cristina and Selva/Wolkenstein. From here the first climb of the day begins up to the Passo Sella. Once you have descended to Pian de Schiavaneis, on the road to the second peak of the day, you will take the timed section: the 6.1 km and 422 meters of climbing up to the Passo Pordoi must be covered as quickly as possible. At Pordoi a rich refreshment awaits you and a 360° panorama of the most beautiful and highest peaks of the Dolomites. A fun descent towards Arabba follows, where you can gather your strength to start pedaling on the Passo Campologo, pass number 3 of the Sellaronda. In Corvara, main village of Val Badia, cyclists can stop and enjoy a well-deserved lunch necessary to overcome the last uphill that ends on the Passo Gardena. Here the circle around the Sella massif closes and the almost endless descent through Gardena valley begins until arriving in Ponte Gardena/Waidbruck.
STAGE 3: PASSO MENDOLA E PASSO PALADE
Date: Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025
Stage: 92 km | 1.691 m
Start: h. 8.30 Bolzano Fair
Locations: Bolzano, Appiano, Passo Mendola, Fondo, Passo Palade, Lana, Bolzano
Crono: Appiano/Kalterer Höhe (km 12,5) –> Passo Mendola 9,7 km | 666 m
Feed zone after 27 km on Passo Mendola and after 49 km on Passo Palade
SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION
We have reached our third day together. The climb up the Passo Mendola is a great way for local cyclists to get into shape for the long summer mountain tours. With 1,363 metres of climbing, the pass is not very high, but its location on the far edge of the Mendola makes it a first-class vantage point. From here, the view extends to the Bolzano basin, Lake Caldaro and the many mountains in the background. It is therefore no wonder that the “Giro d'Italia” and the “Tour of the Alps” have incorporated this climb into their stages. Shortly after Appiano, the timed section begins, where you can test your fitness over approximately 10 km and 670 m of altitude difference. After a break at the Passo Mendola, you descend to the village of Fondo (Trentino), on the border between South Tyrol and Alta Val di Non: here begins the long but rideable climb to the Passo Palade at 1,518 metres asl. Now begins the pleasant descent towards the Adige Valley: in the shade of the woods we let the bike flow until Lana and to Bolzano carefree crossing the large valley with extensive apple trees. Lunch awaits us at the fair.
STAGE 4: PASSO STELVIO
Date: Thursday, July 24th, 2025
Stage: 58 km | 1.867 m
Start: h. 9.00 in Prato allo Stelvio
Finish: in Glorenza/Glurns
Bus transfer: Bolzano -Prato allo Stelvio / Glorenza-Bolzano
Locations: Prato allo Stelvio, Trafoi, passo Stelvio, Münstair, Glorenza
Crono: Trafoi –> passo Stelvio 13,7 km | 1.183 m
Feed zone after 26 km on passo Stelvio
Lunch in Glorenza/Glurns
SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION
Bus transfer from Bolzano to Prato allo Stelvio where a rich refreshment awaits us before starting the legendary climb up the Stelvio Pass. As soon as we arrive in the village of Trafoi we are on the starting line of the timed section. Here we begin the 48 U-turns on the South Tyrolean side. It is surely one of the most impressive roads in the world! Not for nothing is it called “the Queen of Alpine roads.” The road was built between 1820 and 1928 as an alternative route between Tyrol and Lombardy region, then Austro-Hungarian territory. At the top we descend toward Bormio and after a few km we turn left to take us over the Umbrail Pass (Giogo di S. Maria), on the border between Italy and Switzerland. On Swiss territory we descend to S.Maria Münstair where we enter the Monastero Valley that takes us back to Italy. As soon as the fortified city walls of Glorenza/Glurns become visible, we are also almost at our destination. We enter the town through the big gate and cross it along the main street. At the end we reach the festival square, where lunch is served in the shade of the fortified city walls. Outside the walls the buses are waiting for the return to Bolzano.
STAGE 5: MELTINA - AVELENGO
Date: Friday, July 25th, 2025
Stage: 79 km | 1.390 m
Start: h. 8.00 Bolzano Fair
Locations: Bolzano, Terlano, Frassineto/Verschneid, Meltina, Verano, Avelengo, Merano, Bolzano
Crono: Terlano –> Frassineto/Verschneid 9,3 km | 839 m
Feed zone after 20 km a Frassineto/Verschneid (Meltina)
SHORT STAGE DESCRIPTION
This last stage takes us from Bolzano to mount Monzoccolo, as the vast plateau between San Genesio/Jenesien and Avelengo/Hafling is called. After a leisurely ride, we reach the start of the timed section in Terlano. From here on, we will quickly overcome 10 km and 838 m of climbing until we arrive in Verschneid/Frassineto. The route offers continuous views of the Adige Valley and you can check the altitude gained every time the road changes direction. Once we reach our destination, the route continues undulating to Meltina/Mölten, always in the shade of the larch forests, passing through meadows with Haflinger horses and large pastures. After passing the locations of Verano/Vöran and Avelengo/Hafling, the rapid descent towards Merano begins, with a difference in altitude of about 1,000 meters. From there, we will quickly cross the Adige Valley until we arrive in Bolzano, where lunch has already been prepared and everything for the final awards ceremony of the Giro delle Dolomiti, 2025 edition.
RACE FEE 2025:
€ 550 until 31.12.2024
€ 600 01.01.2025 – 20.04.2025
€ 650 21.04.2025 – 19.07.2025
The starter package includes:
Participation in 5 different stages
Rider pack
High-quality event jersey
Bib collection
Luggage transport service (daily)
Timed sections in every stage
Insurance by ITAS
Professional timekeeping (chip)
Feed stations in each stage on the route
Warm meals after the ride in the Fiera
Mechanical assistance on the route
Bags service
Medical and safety assistance
Car/motorbikes escort along the route
Roadbook (digital) – profiles – GPX files
Event office in the Fiera
Briefings
Daily headquarter / office in the Fiera
Massage
Rankings – categories
Prize giving ceremony
Giro Guest – program for companions
Photo service (Fotostudio3)
Media support
Aperitivo on day 0
Broom wagon
The event is a touristy sporting cycling tour and all applicable rules of ACSI must be observed.Roads will remain open to traffic (except the timed stage). Competitors shall at all times and under all circumstances comply with the Highway Code (even in the timed stage). Fastened helmet is mandataroy at all times.The instructions of the race marshal,who is the sole responsible of everythingduring the stage,shall be strictly followed.Competitors not complying with the safety rules maybeimmediately disqualified from the event and,in cases of accidents, the person(s) responsible shall be charged according tothe law.Competitors overtaking the “start race” vehicle as well as those overtaken by the “end race” vehicle are no longer part of the event (read insurance policy) and cycle on their own risk and will. All competitorsmust behave properly, in conformity with the rules of the event and generally use common sense.