Entertainment

Throughout the morning of 21 July, spectators can enjoy a wide range of products and gifts from numerous partner brands and their mascots, both in the streets of the Principality and in Port Hercule, just outside the Tour de France Village (access to which will be reserved for local authorities, partners, cycling teams and journalists).

Also on the programme is an event in support of the Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque charity, offering free eye and hearing tests, awareness-raising activities (car/cyclist co-existence, recycling/recovery, etc.), exhibitions of partner brand products, a photo-call and 'lucky wheels'.

There will also be shops selling official Tour de France merchandise, official kits and cycling team jerseys.

Source: ASO

In tandem with the main event and opening the publicity caravan, eight young riders (aged 15-18) will ride the entire stage (to be confirmed by the Monaco Cycling Union – to be confirmed). This initiative, sponsored by the tyre manufacturer, will mimic the experience of a professional team, with official support vehicles, an awards ceremony on the podium and the sound of the official Tour de France anthem.

More information: www.continental-tires.com/fr/fr/sponsoring/young-cadets

Source: ASO

The Tour de France riders have the opportunity to explore the route of the stage between 11:40am and 01.10pm.

See the Tour route in the Principality

A major event on every stage of the Tour de France, the Publicity Caravan is made up of around 150 vehicles representing about thirty brands, parading along a 10km route handing out gifts to spectators.

Departure from Monaco: 01.10pm. The publicity Caravan opens the road to the Tour riders.
Duration: approximately 30 minutes.

Source: ASO

Once the publicity Caravan has passed, the first rider will set off at 2.40pm.

The eight Monegasque winners of the 7th edition of the Dictée du Tour de France will be welcomed to the Tour Village on the morning of 21 July and invited to head behind the scenes of the start of the Grande Boucle.

These pupils, from Year 5 to Year 8, from Monegasque schools are the winners of a competition organised on 22 March by ASO and the stage towns (the Prince’s Government in Monaco's case): a dictation contest with the aim of correctly spelling a press article about the Tour, in this case the one in the local media Monaco Tribune about the Tour coming to the Principality in 2024. Their classes also received a visit from Antoine Berlin, one of Monaco's two professional cyclists (along with Victor Langellotti), who came to talk about his career.

In 2023, 23,000 children from all over France took part in this event, 300 of whom were lucky enough to attend the Tour.

For more information on the initiative, visit: www.letourfemmes.fr

Monaco Info report on the subject: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLTKTpN5qkY

Source: Monaco Info

From 1pm on Saturday 20 July, 9 female riders from "Donnons des Elles au Vélo" - an amateur club affiliated to the French Cycling Federation and dedicated to promoting women's cycling - will set off from the Quai Albert I^er (next to the Automobile Club de Monaco) to cover the Tour route as far as Nice.

In the same way as they have done for all the other stages of the Grande Boucle on the eve of the passage of the professional men, they will cover the whole of the 21st stage, in the presence of Céline Cottalorda, Interministerial Delegate for Women's Rights, to promote the development of the female cycling base.

More information: www.donnonsdeselles.net

Source: Donnons des Elles au Vélo

On display until 31 August on the gates of the Jardins Saint-Martin (between the Musée Océanographique and Monaco Cathedral) are 19 photographs measuring 1 metre by 1.5 metres, recounting the many times the Grande Boucle has passed through Monaco (taken from the archives of Presse Sports - owned by Amaury Sport Organisation, organisers of the Tour de France - and those of the Monaco Government Communications Department). The exhibition reveals close ties that the Principality has maintained with the Tour de France for 85 years.

Exposition photo "Monaco et Le Tour de France"

Exposition photo "Monaco et Le Tour de France"

Access free of charge.

Source: Government Communication Department 

A stamp highlighting the Tour de France's visit to the Principality has been specially designed by Monaco's Office des Émissions de Timbres-Poste (OETP). 

On sale: 15 July (from the OETP, the Museum of Stamps and Coins, post offices and philatelic counters in the Principality, Monegasque philatelic dealers and Carré d'Encre in Paris).
Format: 30 X 40.85 mm vertical
Print run: 40,000 copies

OETP website: www.oetp-monaco.com

Source: OETP

In collaboration with Amaury Sport Organisation, Peace and Sport* will be organising the "Ride for Peace" bike parade on 21 July, which will bring together around thirty athletes and personalities wishing to "contribute to the success of this 21st stage of the Tour de France by reinforcing its societal dimension".

The riders, who will be wearing white jerseys, the colour symbolising peace, will set off from Monaco (boulevard Albert I^er) at 10 a.m. and will follow the peloton time-trial route, finishing at Place Masséna in Nice at 12 noon.

* Peace and Sport, "L'Organisation pour la paix par le sport", is an NGO based in the Principality whose aim is to use sport and its values as an instrument of peace throughout the world. Known for its "White Card" campaigns, it operates under the patronage of HSH Prince Albert II.

On Friday 19 July at 11am, around 80 amateur runners will set off from the Quai Albert I^er (level with the Automobile Club de Monaco) and follow the route of stage 21 under the banner "Together❤Stronger" all the way to the Promenade des Anglais, at the foot of the Ange de la Baie, a memorial work in tribute to the victims of the attack on 14 July 2016 in Nice : This peloton, made up of victims and relatives of victims of terrorist attacks and led by V-Europe, the Belgian association for victims of terrorism, will be running to raise public awareness of the serious consequences of terrorist attacks and to keep governments aware of their responsibility to provide care.

For more information on this initiative, which has been running since 2021: www.togetherstronger.eu