{"id":293790,"date":"2025-12-01T22:21:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293790\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:21:05","slug":"giro-ditalia-2026-race-will-begin-in-bulgaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/293790\/","title":{"rendered":"Giro d&#8217;Italia: 2026 race will begin in Bulgaria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bulgaria will host the first three stages of the 2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia &#8211; the second successive year it will begin outside Italy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Albania hosted the opening three stages of this year&#8217;s race in May, which since 2010 has started abroad seven times, including Jerusalem in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-week event will take place 8-31 May and finishes in Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 2026 edition will cover 3,458km with about 50,000 metres of elevation gain. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bulgaria will host the first three stages of the 2026 Giro d&#8217;Italia &#8211; the second successive year it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-293790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}