Amaury Sports Organisation who run the Tour De France have said that the 2016 Tour De France will start in the Department Of Manche, prompting a return to the start in mainland France, after Grand Departs in Corsica, Yorkshire and Holland.
Manche is in the Lower Normandy region, on land that was once connected to Cornwall and Dorset and it's most famous visitor attraction is Mont St Michel which staged the finish of a Tour De France stage in 2013 when Tony Martin won the 33km Time Trial from Avranches and Mont Saint-Michel.
The region has been visited by the race twenty times with it's first time in 1911, with sixteen stage finishes in Cherbourg, two in Avranches, one in Granville, one in Saint-Hilaire-du-Harcouët and the 2013 time trial which ended at the Mont Saint-Michel.
Full details of the opening stage and Grand Depart will be announced on December 9 by ASO at a press conference in Mont-Saint-Michel.
Source: DSG
