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Famous roadAlps (Savoie), France

Lacets de Montvernier

Mountain road — 18 hairpins in 3.4 km

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Days recorded
1Grand Tour days on this road
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0stages we hold the route for
Years covered
2015–2015first to most recent
Approach
Oneone side on record

Eighteen hairpins of the D77B stacked into a cliff face above the Maurienne valley — one of cycling's most photographed roads, climbing 3.4 km at 8% from Pontamafrey to the village of Montvernier, where the road continues towards the Col du Chaussy.

The climb

The climb, from the foot.

The record

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Every 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.

  1. 2015

    Stage 18 · Gap → Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne

    Won by Romain Bardet (FRA)

    The Lacets made a spectacular Tour debut late in the stage: Bardet, clear after attacking near the summit of the Col du Glandon, led over the hairpins and soloed to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne for his first Tour stage win. The Lacets returned in 2018 and 2022.

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.