100 years of the Tour of Italy

RCS and Gazzetta dello Sport celebrated the centenary of the Tour of Italy in a traveling photo exhibition inaugurated in Wertheim, after a stop in Milan at Bocconi University, will arrive in Rome May 23 to end 31 of the same month. Galleria Sordi, chosen for the exhibition, will host thirty-two large photographic panels that, through shots of the era, tracing the history of the Tour of Italy, starting from his first adventure editions. We will represent the samples that have made history, from the great constant Girardengo forced to defend dall'inarrivabile Alfredo Binda. Black and white photographs provide us with emotions intact vision of the scenarios through which the lap of the bike on which heavy Coppi and Bartali were given battle sweating and suffering in the mountain stages. Professionals and amateurs together in an effort athletic, in a company which initially had an aura of adventure as very often the participants did not have a place to dine and sleep at night. Images of fatigue, men standing on the pedals on the climbs of Bondone, on the Gavia pass, Pordoi. Stages celebrating the birth of the great mountaineers like the late Pantani or specialists absolute speed in time trial stages as Anquetil and Indurain. The photographic exhibition sull'epopea the Corsa Rosa will gather all the protagonists from the beginning to the present day, until the young Spanish phenomenon of 2008: Alberto Contador. One hundred years of history of a tour which has passed through Italy in the length and breadth of becoming a spectator in wars, fall and rebirth of a piece of Italian history and just waiting to be revived to tell.