Giro dell'Emilia

Giro dell'Emilia

Race details
Date	Early-October
Region	Emilia, Italy
English name	Tour of Emilia
Local name(s)	Giro dell'Emilia (in Italian)
Discipline	Road
Competition	UCI ProSeries
Type	Single-day
Web site	www.gsemilia.it
History
First edition	1909 (1909)
Editions	106 (as of 2023)
First winner	Eberardo Pavesi (ITA)
Most wins	Costante Girardengo (ITA) (5 wins)
Most recent	Primož Roglič (SLO)

The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar.^[1] The race starts from Bologna, it generally takes a tour of Appennino Tosco-Emiliano National Park and ends in Bologna with 5 reps on the brutal climbing ring (Orfanelle climb, Montalbano climb and Casaglia downhill) of Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Luca. It is considered^{[by whom?]} one of the most important and historical classic bicycle races of the calendar, the palmarès shows great champions like Coppi, Bartali, Merckx and Roglič.^[2]