The fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia 2024 takes the peloton from Liguria to Tuscany. Genova hosts the restart of this day that will run 178 kilometers until arriving in Lucca with a fairly bumpy development. Nothing impossible, but it will be necessary to tackle a couple of Apennine GPMs to reach Lucca, where it will be quite likely to witness another sprint. Lucca has been the protagonist of the Giro d’Italia several times, but it has even been missing since 1985, when it hosted the final stage: a time trial won by Francesco Moser that crowned Bernard Hinault for the third, and last, time.

Route Stage 5 Giro d’Italia 2024

The start will then be given from Genova and the stage will run almost entirely along the Aurelia, presenting a fairly jagged route in the first part. In fact, in the first 45 kilometers there will be some ups and downs that are not too challenging, while once past Sestri Levante, the first of the day’s two GPMs, the Passo del Bracco, a long, 15.3-kilometer climb, but very rideable (average gradient is 3.9%, max. 8%), will be faced. Once past this climb and the following descent, the road will instead become flat again and remain so for the next 70 kilometers.

At this stage, the riders will pass through the flying sprints of Ceparana, Luni (valid for the Intergiro classification) and Camaiore, past which the short Montemagno climb (3 km at 4.2%, max. 8%) will begin, which will be climbed with 21.1 kilometers to go. Hardly any sprinters will go into big trouble on this climb, but if it happens there should be enough space to get back into the peloton. The approach to the finish will be almost all on a very slight descent and on long straights, but in the final visogner will have to pay attention to some bends, the most treacherous of which at 2500 meters to the finish, while in the last kilometer there will be two semi-curves to the right, the last one at -350 meters.