30 years after Marco Pantani's victory in the Tour De France, the work, designed by designer and artist Aldo Drudi and donated to the city by a pool of sponsors in love with cycling and the champion from Romagna, will be unveiled. One more opportunity to highlight, in conjunction with the arrival of the Tour de France, the legendary figure of Marco Pantani, the last cyclist ever to win the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same year, one of the greatest champions of all time, whose deeds are part of the history of cycling and to whom the Tour 2024 pays tribute along with Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi. The Mayor of the City, Jamil Sadegholvaad, and the President of the Emilia Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini, will be present. The installation will remain in the setting of the bimillenary Tiberius Bridge until the Pink Night event and will then be permanently transferred to an equally important area for the city.
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Rimini, piazza sull'Acqua - Parco Marecchia
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For the occasion, the cycle path in homage to Pantani is completed along a stretch of Via Montescudo, leading from the Gaiofana area to Ghetto Casale, thus joining the hill to the sea. The cycle path is interspersed, every 200 metres or so, with five coloured competition stages that made the Pirate a legend: “Mortirolo 1994”, “Alpe D’Huez 1997”, “Selva di Val Gardena 1998”, “Les Deux Alpes 1998”, “Oropa 1999”.