Race director Javier Guillen and the Vuelta a Espana organizers plan to bring the race back to the Canary Islands. There is a strong desire to end the race in the region in 2017 and plan mountaintop finishes on Pico de las Nieves in Gran Canaria and Mount Teide in Tenerife.

Unipublic, organizer of the Vuelta, "have shown the regional government the project to finish the Vuelta in Gran Canaria and Tenerife,” according to La Provincia, Diario de las Palmas that speaks about "a sketch of four stages" for 2017 that will decide the final winner.

The Vuelta is hoping to have summit finishes on Pico de las Nieves (1945 meters), Gran Canaria, and in the Teide National Park in Tenerife (3,718 meters). "Both Gran Canaria and Tenerife have prominence, both with two stages. In Gran Canaria we will have a finish on Pico de las Nieves while the other start and finish locations are to be decided. In Tenerife there would be a final stage with finish on Mount Teide and the other star and finishes are still unknown," reports Canarias7. In the case of the Teide volcane, the stage is likely to finish at 2325 meters of altitude.

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Logistics has always been the main concern of the organizers. "ForUnipublic the problem of the transfer equipment from the Iberian Peninsula will be solved by a specific plan which includes aircraft and ships. All human contingent will fly to the Archipelago sea while 35 trailers, 38 trucks, 26 buses, 63 trucks, 250 cars, 105 motorcycles and 6 helicopters will be transported by sea," La Provincia reports.

Since 1987, the Vuelta has finished outside Madrid on only two occaions, in 1993 and 2014, both times in Santiago de Compostela.

This year Guillen has resumed contacts to fulfill his dream of seeing the Vuelta in the Canaries. "There is great enthusiasm on the part of the organizers, also because we realize that the fans looking forward to a return and it is certainly the next big challenge facing the Vuelta," he said. He has had the idea since 2011. "For the Vuelta, it is important to do new things. For years, the Vuelta has been focused on innovation and innovation is to propose new things. These proposals are sought in places where we have not been for a long time, like the Canaries," he said back then