The 2001 Tour de France travels in a clockwise direction, mainly concentrating on the east of the country with a brief trip into Belgium the only racing on foreign roads.
The race begins in the far north of France in Dunkirk, a famous historical town on the Cote d'Opale that shares the opening weekend with Calais, St Omer and Boulogne.
The flatlands and hills of Belgium and the French Ardennes are the arena for the first week, before a team time trial and then the first meeting with the mountains in the Vosges area of Alsace.
After that. the massive climbs of the Alps are not far away, with the famous stage to L'Alpe d'Huez a real highlight. Only a single rest day divides these mountains from three arduous days in the Pyrenees.
If the race is not settled by then, the final flat time trial in central France could be the decisive moment before the traditional finale in Paris.
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