Cycling in Yorkshire & Beyond
Cycling in Yorkshire & Beyond
Stage 18 | Stage 19 | Stage 20
Stage 19 of the Tour de France 2025 is a 129.9km mountain stage from Albertville to La Plagne.
The biggest climbs are the Col des Saisies, the Col du Pré/Cormet de Roselend, and the summit finish at La Plagne.
This is the race report for Stage 19 Tour de France 2025.
These are video highlights of Stage 19.
Race Details | Poll | Map & Profile | Timings | Videos | Food & Drink | Route Notes | Favourites
| Date | Friday 25th July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Stage classification | Mountain |
| Distance | 129.9km |
| Intermediate sprint | Ugine |
| Climbs | Côte d'Héry-sur-Ugine (Cat. 2) Col des Saisies (Cat. 1) Col du Pré (HC) Cormet de Roselend (Cat. 2) La Plagne (HC) |
| Total climbing | 4,550m |
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This is a map of the route of Stage 19, Tour de France 2025.
This is a zoom-able map of Stage 19 Tour de France 2025.
This is the profile of Stage 19 Tour de France 2025.
| Caravan | Fast Schedule | Slow Schedule | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Time (départ fictif) | 1130 |
1330 |
1330 |
| Start Time (départ réel) | 1140 |
1340 |
1340 |
| Ugine Intermediate Sprint | 1153 |
1352 |
1353 |
| Col des Saisies Climb | 1259 |
1448 |
1459 |
| Cormet de Roselend Climb | 1417 |
1558 |
1617 |
| Finish Line La Plagne (129.9km) | 1546 |
1718 |
1746 |
This is a video of the route of Stage 19 Tour de France 2025.
La Plagne will always live in the memory for Stephen Roche's performance there in 1987.
'And just who is that rider coming up behind? Because that looks like Roche! That looks like Stephen Roche! It's Stephen Roche who's come over the line! He almost caught Pedro Delgado, I don't believe it'.
Stage 19 is an Alpine stage to La Plagne, in Savoie, and therefore this race should be accompanied by Savoyarde specialities. These include fondue, raclette and pierrade.
Vin de Savoie is usually drunk with a traditional Savoyarde meal.
Savoie wines are generally quite light with relatively high acidity. The reds are often made from Gamay grapes, and the whites from Chasselas, Altesse, Chardonnay, Roussanne or other varieties.
Apremont is one of the areas that makes vin de Savoie, generally white wine. The soil is chalky, the result of a landslide from Mont Granier in the 1200s. The slopes enable the vines to catch the morning sun. The main grape variety for Apremont is Jacquère, and the resulting wines are light and dry with floral, mineral character.
Another Savoie wine is Roussette. Buy a bottle of Roussette de Savoie (affiliate link).
The stage starts in Albertville (départ fictif).
Albertville is a town on the river Arly, near its confluence with the river Isère. It is surrounded by mountains - the Bauges to the west, the Beaufortain to the north, and the Chaine de la Lauzière to the south.
Albertville was on the Roman route from Milan to Vienna (which crossed the Alps via the Col du Petit St-Bernard). Because of the confluence of the Arly and the Isère, the Romans called the higher part of the town ad confluentes. (This part of Albertville is called Conflans today). There was a customs post lower down, referred to as ad publicanos.
At the end of the C12th, the Knights Hospitaller of St John of Jerusalem founded a hospital for travellers and pilgrims down near the river, and the village which developed around it was called l'Hôpital.
Modern Albertville was formed in 1836 by King Charles Albert of Sardinia, of the House of Savoie. He merged the medieval town of Conflans with the town of l'Hôpital.
Albertville's economy is largely industrial, with hydroelectricity and paper mills two of its industries. Kassbohrer, who make piste bashers, have premises here.
Albertville hosted the 1992 Winter Olympics. Many of the events took place in nearby ski resorts, including Le Praz (ski jumping), Val d'Isère (men's giant slalom, Super G, downhill, and combined), Méribel (women's Alpine skiing events), and Les Menuires (men's slalom). The skating took place in Albertville: the ice rink (Halle de Glace Olympique) remains; the speed skating venue (l'anneau de vitesse) has been given over to athletics.
There's a travel festival in Albertville at the end of October, for travel writers and photographers, called Le Grand Bivouac. Albertville Jazz Festival is at the end of July.
There's a cycle path most of the way from Albertville to Annecy.
From Albertville, Stage 19 heads along the D1212 towards Ugine, with the départ réel about a third of the way there.
The intermediate sprint is at Ugine, before the day's climbing starts.
The intermediate sprint at Ugine comes with just 8km raced.
Green jersey competition: from 20 points for 1st place down to 1 point for 15th place.
Then Stage 19 goes up a climb called the Côte d'Héry-sur-Ugine.
The Côte d'Héry-sur-Ugine is the road you have to take from Ugine to Flumet on the (quite frequent) occasions when the Gorges d'Arly are closed due to landslides.
It is twisty and steep.
As a whole, the climb is 11.3km at an average 5.1% to a height of 1,004m.
KOM competition: from 5 points for 1st place down to 1 point for 4th place.
There's then a descent into the Gorges d'Arly.
The riders soon start the next climb, to the Col des Saisies.
The Col des Saisies climb begins on the D71A through Crest Voland. The riders join the D218B and continue to the Col des Saisies at 1,650m.
In total, the climb is 13.7km at an average 6.4%.
KOM competition: from 10 points for 1st place down to 1 point for 6th place.
The name Les Saisies refers to seizures of contraband which were made at a time when it was at the frontier between Savoie and Haute Savoie, in the 1860s.
Les Saisies is a family ski resort, with views of the Mont Blanc range. Although its altitude is modest, the snow record is very good.
An Austrian ski instructor, Erwin Eckl, was central to the development of the resort between 1937 and 1961. He thought the landscape was similar to the Tyrol, and called it 'le Tyrol français'.
The descent from Les Saisies is on the D218B, then Stage 17 continues on the valley road, the D925 to Beaufort.
Beaufort, or Beaufort-sur-Doron, is a village in the Beaufortain area of Savoie. It's close to the winter and summer resort of Arêches-Beaufort.
Other than tourism, the main occupation is agriculture. The village of Beaufort gives its name to Beaufort cheese (a firm, raw cow's milk cheese similar to Gruyère but nicer).
After Beaufort comes the Col du Pré climb.
Sometimes the Tour de France goes direct from Beaufort to the Col du Méraillet and Cormet de Roselend. This time, as on Stage 11 of the 2018 Tour, the race goes up the Col du Pré first.
These are highlights of Stage 11 of the 2018 Tour.
That was Geraint Thomas's day and Tour de France.
In 2018 the Col du Pré was hors catégorie, and it will be again in 2025. It is 12.6km at an average 7.7%, and 1,748m altitude at the top.
KOM competition: from 20 points for 1st place down to 2 points for 8th place.
This is the climb profile from 2018.
inrng said in 2018 that the Col du Pré was an example of the Tour de France using smaller, back road climbs.
The route is via Arêches, and it's after that the road narrows and
'the magic begins' (inrng). '...[I]t's the stuff of postcards, with
chalets, cows, and a sustained slope...there are 15 hairpins in 7km -
only with each bend the view down the valley improves.'
2.5km after the Col du Pré, the riders reach the Barrage de Roselend - the dam which creates the Lac de Roselend.
After going along the barrage and the lake shore, this route meets the main D925 route up from Beaufort at the Col du Méraillet.
The Col du Méraillet (1614m) is at the Chalet de Roselend Hotel, overlooking the Lac de Roselend.
Now the D925 skirts the Lac de Roselend.
After going around the north end of the lake, the road rises up towards the Cormet de Roselend.
Cormet is just another word for 'col' in the local Beaufortain patois.
This climb is exposed and tree-less, but for low-growing, avalanche-resistant alder. The steeper part comes first.
The gradient eases once a barren plateau is reached.
After a couple of hairpins, the riders will reach the top of the Cormet de Roselend.
The Cormet de Roselend is 5.9km at an average 6.3%, to a height of 1,968m.
KOM competition: from 5 points for 1st place down to 1 point for 4th place.
This is the Col Collective's video of the Cormet de Roselend climb via the Col du Pré.
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The other side of the col, the road becomes the D902. It's a long descent to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, losing 1,156m height over a distance of 18.5km.
At first, the downhill is neither technical nor particularly steep.
There are four hairpins, then more straight road alongside the Torrent de Glaciers.
It's lower down that matters get trickier, with a series of tight hairpin bends in the woods.
The D902 brings the peloton to Bourg-Saint-Maurice.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice is a town in the Tarentaise valley, on the river Isère.
It is surrounded by ski resorts, and there's a funicular railway link to Arc 1600, part of Les Arcs.
Bourg-Saint-Maurice is also popular in the summer as a base for walking, mountain biking, and road cycling.
There's a whitewater canoe and kayak slalom course on the Isère at Bourg, used for training and competitions.
From Bourg-Saint-Maurice, the route is down the Isère valley to Aime/Mâcot-la-Plagne. There, the final climb begins, to La Plagne.
The final climb to La Plagne is 19.1km at an average 7.2%.
It's shown, together with the whole route of Stage 19, on this reconnaissance video for the Etape du Tour with last year's winner Damien Jeanjean. (Most of the comments on YouTube are about Jeanjean's helmet being too small and wonky).
The Etape du Tour is the amateur sportif that takes place every year onthe route of one of the stages. In 2025, it's on Sunday 20th July, and it's on the route of Stage 19.
KOM competition at the finish line: from 20 points for 1st place down to 2 points for 8th place.
Green jersey competition at the finish line: from 20 points for 1st place down to 1 point for 15th place.
Time bonuses at the line:
The Stage 19 finish town is La Plagne. It is a major ski resort.
La Plagne is associated with Laurent Fignon, who beat Bernard Hinault here in 1984.
Favourites for Stage 19 of the 2025 Tour de France will of course include Pogacar and Vingegaard.
Could someone else spring a surprise - perhaps Vingegaard's teammate Matteo Jorgenson, or Florian Lipowitz?
Who do you think will win Stage 19 of the 2025 Tour de France?
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