The route;<br /><br />Running from Saturday June 30th to Sunday July 22th 2012, the 99th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,497 kilometres.<br /><br />These stages have the following profiles:<br /><br />9 flat stages<br />4 medium mountain stages - one with a summit finish<br />5 mountain stages - two with a summit finish<br />2 individual time-trial stages<br />1 prologue<br />2 rest days<br />Distinctive aspects of the race;<br /><br />The 2012 Tour de France will have 25 mountain level two, level one or highest level mountain passes or summit fi nishes.<br />They will be divided up geographically in the following way:<br /><br />1 in the Vosges<br />3 in the Jura<br />4 in the Swiss Jura<br />6 in the Alps<br />11 in the Pyrenees<br /><br />9 new stage towns;<br /><br />Abbeville, Annonay Davézieux, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, La Planche des Belles Filles, Peyragudes, Porrentruy, Samatan, Tomblaine, Visé
