From 3 to 8 April, the 62nd edition of the Itzulia Basque Country Banco Sabadell Grand Prix will be held. This year, the race will coincide with Easter and a large number of spectators and cycling enthusiasts are expected to travel to the Basque Country to enjoy and follow the emblematic race.  

At Banco Sabadell, we continue to make a firm and decisive commitment to top-level cycling in the Basque Country and, for this reason, we are once again supporting the Itzulia. This will be our 12th time collaborating, bringing this great sport closer to the Basque society as a whole.

The #Itzulia2023 will count with the participation of 23 teams and the best cyclists of the national and international peloton. The 62nd edition of the race will consist of six stages, none of them against the clock, so the number of kilometres to be covered will increase: a total of 992.5 km. In this edition there will be 26 mountain passes, most of them in the third category (16) and also in the second category (7), while the first category will be only 3, all of them in the last stage.

.Image of the Gran Premio Banco Sabadell cycling event

The cycling peloton will start on Monday 3 April from Vitoria-Gasteiz and will finish in Éibar on Saturday 8 April.

The details of the #Itzulia2023 are as follows:

Image of the 62nd Itzulia Basque Country by Banco Sabadell

1st stage (3 April) Vitoria-Gasteiz – Labastida

The 62nd Basque round will set off from the town of Vitoria-Gasteiz to get the cyclists warmed up. The route will consist of 165.4 km and a single climb up the Opakua pass, where the first mountain jersey will be decided. The first stage will finish in Labastida with a sprint finish that is expected to be decisive.

2nd stage (4 April) Viana – Leitza 

The second stage of the #Itzulia2023 will be the longest stage, with a 193.80 km route, and will test the peloton of cyclists who will have to overcome up to five peaks, almost all of them located in the final part of the route that will end in Leitza.

3rd stage (5 April) Errenteria-Amasa – Villabona

The province of Guipúzcoa will host the third stage of the race. Starting in Errenteria, the peloton of cyclists will have to overcome five mountain passes on a 153.9 km circuit with narrow roads and many ups and downs. The last kilometre of the third day is expected to be very explosive and hard until we reach Hika.

4th stage (6 April) Santurtzi – Santurtzi

At the halfway point of the race, the peloton will have moved on to the province of Vizcaya for the fourth and fifth day of the race. The municipality of Santurtzi will be the starting and finishing point of this fourth day of 175.7 km and four mountain passes.

5th stage (7 April) Amorebieta-Etxano – Amorebieta-Etxano

The penultimate stage of the race will also take place in the same locality as the starting and finishing point: Amorebieta. The cyclists will have to cover 165.9 km over a complex terrain with four high passes.

6th stage (8 April) Éibar – Éibar

The last day of the #Itzulia2023 will coincide with the queen stage of the competition. The peloton will set off from Eibar to tackle the shortest circuit (137.8 km) but the toughest, with a challenge of seven mountain passes that will be decisive.

And in the same town of Eibar we will find out which cyclist will win the 62nd Itzulia Basque Country Banco Sabadell GP and be crowned with the traditional txapela