Amsterdam hosted the first Tour de France start abroad in 1954.
List of Grand Départs outside of France
1954 Amsterdam (Netherland)
1958 Brussels (Belgium)
1965 Cologne (Germany)
1973 Scheveningen (Netherlands)
1978 Leiden (Netherlands)
1980 Frankfurt (Germany)
1982 Basel (Switzerland)
1987 West Berlin (Germany)
1992 San Sebastián (Spain)
1996 ‘s-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands)
1998 Dublin (Ireland)
2002 Luxembourg City (Luxembourg)
2004 Liège (Belgium)
2007 London (United Kingdom)
2009 Monaco (Monaco)
2010 Rotterdam (Netherlands)
2012 Liège (Belgium)
2014 Leeds (United Kingdom)
2015 Utrecht (Netherlands)
2017 Düsseldorf (Germany)
2019 Brussels (Belgium)
2022 Copenhagen (Denmark)
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