Sunday, June 1, Pope Leo XIV will greet the Giro d’Italia riders as they will pass through Vatican City.

This will happen to honour the memory of Pope Francis, that accepted the purposal made by the Cardinal Josè Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, and realized together with the Governatorate of Vatican City State and Athletica Vaticana.

The project of the stage on the Vatican soil – a step that anticipates the Jubilee of Sport planned on 14 and 15 June – has started on 28 October 2021 during the ceremony of the certification to Athletica Vaticana as official member of the UCI. The project was presented on 29 April, in Campidoglio, by Bishop Paul Tighe, Secretary of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See.

The start of the final stage of the Giro d’Italia 108 will be given at the Baths of Caracalla. The riders will enter in the Vatican City by the Petriano Entrance.

The route inside the Vatican Walls will be 3 km long.