Andorra will welcome the 103rd Tour de France, scheduled to start on July 2, 2016, from Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche). Christian Prudhomme, (director of the Tour de France) and Francesc Camp (Minister of Tourism of Andorra) made the announcement following the signature of a memorandum of understanding.

The peloton of the Grande Boucle will stay three days in the Principality, with a stage finish, a rest day and a stage start. The Tour de France will return to the Principality of Andorra in 2016, seven years after its last visit in 2009, when Frenchman Brice Feillu culminated a long breakaway at the summit of Andorra-Arcalís. It will be the Tour's fifth stopover in Andorra, after the ones in 1964, 1993, 1997 and 2009.

The latter stage was won by the Frenchman Brice Feillu after a amazing breakaway with among others former yellow jersey wearer Rinaldo Nocentini. And for a fact Nocentini won the jersey once again on this stage ahead of Contador and Lance Armstrong. The latter was later to get his results disqualified. Contador threw in a huge attack with 3 km to go to take the lead of the GC riders, though unable to gain time on Nocentini.

The stage was absolutely a vital stage for the 2009 edition of the Tour de France and it will probably be a happy revisit with the mountains of the European country.

One year before the 2016 Tour de France, the 2015 Vuelta a España will head for Andorra on September 2 (stage 11) in what is billed as its queen stage.

The entire route of the 2016 Tour de France will be revealed on October 20 in Paris.