La Mercan'Tour Turini

The collection of roads that climb to Col de Turini are a living museum that displays the art of route laying. The fabled switchbacks stack themselves in engineered beauty so cyclists can scale all 1,607m of the col any direction.

La Mercan'Tour Turini is based in the mountain village of Saint-Martin Vesubie - "la Suisse niçois" - and follows a parcours that wraps itself up and around every side of the mountain.

Climb the north side, descend the south side and remount from the west in a col-collecting ascent that takes in the Braus, L'Orme and L'Ablé passes, before the second arrival at Turini.

Finish with a 12kms drag up the valley before deciding whether or not to make the climb to La Boréon where the wolves of the Alpha Parc des Loups lie in waiting.