Italian newspaper La Stampa has published what it claims is the full route of the 2016 Giro d’Italia, revealing that the Corsa Rosa will travel to Calabria in the south after the opening stages in the Netherlands, before heading north for a key mountain time trial in Alpe di Siusi on stage 13. Popular summer training resort Livigno is named as hosting a stage finish and the third rest day, with the finale of the race in the Italian and French Alps before the final road stage to Turin.

The official route of the 2016 Giro d’Italia will not be presented until Monday October 5, the day after the Il Lombardia one-day race.

It has been known foe a while that Apeldoorn in Holland would host the Grande Partenza of the 2016 Giro, but La Stampa has shed some more light on the course.

There will be three hard mountain stages in the third week in the Alps, finishing in Pinerolo, Risoul in France and then Sant’Anna di Vinadio. Stage 18 includes the little known La Colletta and the Colle di Pra Martino as it circles Pinerolo. Stage 19 includes the massive Colle dell’Agnello before the finish in Risoul, while stage 20 will return to Italy via the Colle di Vars, the Colle Fauniera and end with the climb to Sant’Anna di Vinadio.

The paper says the race will finish in Turin, rather than the usual finish city of Milan on Sunday May 29.