Tour de France 2027: Chambord time trial, Angers and Carlisle as stage towns, the castles on the route

Four of the castles on this map lie on the 2027 Tour de France route. The route of the 114th edition, presented in Paris on 22 October 2026, comprises 21 stages between 2 and 25 July 2027 and 3,479 kilometres, subject to homologation. It starts in Edinburgh, stops at Carlisle, crosses the Channel, finishes at Angers on 8 July, then launches the following day the race's first individual time trial, between Blois and Chambord. The monuments play different roles from one stage to the next: Chambord serves as a finish line, Carlisle and Angers are towns dominated by a fortress, and Blois hosts the start of the time trial. Here is what the presentations published since the unveiling say, and what these four castles have to tell.