Col d'Èze
Mountain pass — 507 m, the Grande Corniche
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- Years covered
- 1919–2009first to most recent
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- Oneone side on record
The Grande Corniche above Nice: 10 km at 4.9% from the edge of the city to a 507 m pass looking down on Èze and the Mediterranean. Its fame is Paris-Nice's, not the Tour's — from 1969 to 1995 the race ended with a time trial up it every year but 1977, when landslides closed the road, and Sean Kelly won that stage five times during his seven straight overall victories. The finish moved back to the Promenade des Anglais in 1996, but the col kept returning, and Bradley Wiggins set the climbing record of 19' 12" here in 2012 on his way to winning the race. The Tour has crossed it six times in a century, usually as a last obstacle on the way into or out of Nice; the 2026 Tour de France Femmes climbs it four times on the final stage.
The climb
The climb, from the foot.
The record
Raced here
0 of 4 open on the mapEvery Grand Tour day recorded on this road, newest first. The ones we hold the route for open on the map with that stage selected; the rest are the archive’s own account, most of them from before route data existed.
- 2009
Stage 2 · Monaco → Brignoles
Won by Mark Cavendish (GBR)
The 2009 Tour left Monaco by the Grande Corniche on its first road stage. Tony Martin countered as the early break was swept up and led over the day's only third-category summit above the principality, before the race dropped through Nice and turned inland. Mark Cavendish won the sprint 187 km later in Brignoles, the first of six stage wins that July, with Fabian Cancellara still in yellow.
- 1953
Stage 16 · Marseille → Monaco
Won by Wim van Est (NED)
236 km along the Riviera to a rest day in Monaco, with the Èze ranked second category — the climb from Nice, the same road Paris-Nice would later make famous. Joseph Mirando of the South-East regional team led over the summit and took the day's combativity award; Wim van Est won in Monaco, and Jean Malléjac kept the yellow jersey until Louison Bobet's Izoard raid two stages later.
- 1935
Stage 11 · Nice → Cannes
Won by Romain Maes (BEL)
A short, spiky 126 km loop out of Nice over the Col de Nice and the Col de Braus, down to Sospel and Menton, and back over the Èze from La Turbie before the flat run west. Yellow jersey Romain Maes went with the early move and stayed with the leaders all day, then escaped with Sylvère Maes on the run-in and beat him in the sprint on the allées de la Liberté — extending a lead he had held since the first stage and would carry all the way to Paris.
- 1919
Stage 9 · Marseille → Nice
Won by Honoré Barthélemy (FRA)
The col's Tour debut, at the end of a 338 km day that ran through Nice, out over the Col de Braus and the Col de Castillon to Menton, then back up to La Turbie and over the Èze to finish on the allées Risso. Barthélemy led over the summit and took his second stage win of the race. Eugène Christophe held the overall lead — two stages later, in Grenoble, he was handed the first yellow jersey ever awarded.
Elsewhere in the Alps
No Grand Tour day on record has taken this road and another of the atlas's famous climbs. These are its nearest neighbours.