In 2024, for the first time in its history, Tour de France will start from Italy. But the race visited already the neighbour country several times already. Of course, mostly during mountain stages in the Alps.
Take a look at the list of occasions.
1948 Marseille — San Remo (Gino Sciardis)
1949 Briançon – Aoste (Fausto Coppi)
Saint-Vincent-d’Aoste – Lausanne (Vincenzo Rossello)
1952 Le Bourg-d’Oisans Sestrières (Fausto Coppi)
Sestrières – Monaco (Jan Nolten)
1956 Gap – Turin (Nino Defilippis)
Turin – Grenoble (Charly Gaul)
1959 Lautaret – Saint-Vincent, Aosta (Ercole Baldini)
Saint-Vincent, Aosta – Annecy (Rolf Graf)
1961 Grenoble – Turin (Guy Ignolin)
Turin – Antibes-Juan-les-Pins (Guido Carlesi)
1966:Briançon – Turin (Franco Bitossi)
Ivrea – Chamonix (Eddy Schutz)
1992 Saint-Gervais – Sestriere (Claudio Chiappucci)
Sestriere -Alpe d’Huez (Andrew Hampsten)
1996 Le Monêtier-les-Bains – Sestriere (Bjarne Riis)
Turin – Gap (Erik Zabel)
1999 Le Grand-Bornand – Sestriere (Lance Armstrong)
Sestriere – Alpe d’Huez (Giuseppe Guerini)
2008E Embrun – Prato Nevoso (Simon Gerrans)
Cuneo – Jausiers (Cyril Dessel)
2011 Gap – Pinerolo (Edvald Boasson Hagen)
Pinerolo Col du Galibier (Andy Schleck)