Cycling, the Grand Tour of Magna Grecia arrives, first edition next spring

The Magna Grecia Foundation and the Professional Cycling League have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to be able to start the organization of the Grand Tour of Magna Grecia, a professional cycling race project to be carried out over several stages through the regions of Southern Italy, scheduled for next spring. An opportunity to promote not only sport and cycling culture, but its history, social evolution and technological innovation linked to the introduction and use of the bicycle.

Among the collateral projects to the Grand Tour of Magna Graecia, the organization of conferences and seminars that link cycling and physical and psychological health, to raise awareness of correct lifestyles, the fight against obesity and the reduction of public health costs, with particular attention to the younger groups and the silver age.

The Grand Tour of Magna Graecia will also be at the center of a literacy project on the culture of green mobility, particularly in urban contexts, which will promote sustainable tourism to discover the historical places of ancient Magna Graecia.

President Nino Foti comments: “We are pleased to have signed this protocol which will allow us to give life to an ambitious and significant project, which includes the Magna Grecia cycling tour. An important sporting event and an opportunity for growth for the regions of Southern Italy, which will be protagonists of a path capable of celebrating and promoting them in their riches and potential, still largely unknown. Together with all those who wish to join this initiative, we want to set ourselves the goal of reaching the finish line together of outlining new possible opportunities for the regions of the South, in whose roots our history is rooted”.

Roberto Pella, President of the Professional Cycling League, adds: “I am particularly proud of this which is an important initiative at an institutional level for the League and, at the same time, a project of effective long-term collaboration. We will work synergistically to promote and develop professional cycling in the territories of the Southern Regions involved in the Grand Tour, increasingly exciting our communities and attracting new resources and new audiences in this exciting adventure”.