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STAGE 2

SUNDAY AUGUST 30

Nice Haut Pays › Nice

186KM

The Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, its domed pavilion designed in the 1870s by Gustave was going to attack on the slopes of the col, just before the descent into Nice. After a fairly neutral day in the higher mountains to the north, the stage would be decided among the hilltop settlements - the - linked by the corniche roads, climbs and descents. Alaphilippe territory, in other words.

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