The day has finally arrived. Today, Mallorca inaugurates the professional cycling season in Europe with the Garden Hotels Luxcom Challenge Ciclista Mallorca, a race that brings together the best teams and cyclists in the world and that this year reaches its 33rd edition with expectations sky high.
If you are a cycling enthusiast, you can’t miss any of the following events: the Calvià Trophy (Wednesday 24th January); Ses Salines-Felanitx Trophy (Thursday 25th January); Serra de Tramuntana-Selva-Lluc Trophy (Friday 26th January); Pollença-Port d’Andratx Trophy (Saturday 27th January) and the Palma Trophy (Sunday 28th January).
Mallorca, Mecca of world cycling
The elite of cycling – a total of 24 teams – will be together on the island for five days in which riders will cycle through some of the most beautiful spots in Mallorcan geography, with a very favourable climate that promises to leave great and memorable moments. The participants will cycle past emblematic sites such as the Monastery of Lluc and Puig Major and, in the south-east of the island, they could take part in the season’s first big mass sprint. A spectacle for fans of this sport that will culminate on 28 January in front of the iconic Cathedral of Mallorca, with a 150 km lap that is less demanding than the two previous days in the mountains.
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Do you want to follow all the stages live? The Garden Hotels Luxcom Challenge Ciclista Mallorca 2024 will be broadcast live on television as in previous editions. Eurosport and Teledeporte will offer live coverage of the last hour and a half of each race so that fans from all over the world can enjoy the excitement of the competition live.
The Challenge Ciclista Mallorca Femenina comes into existence
For the first time, this year the Garden Hotels Luxcom Challenge Ciclista Mallorca has had a women’s edition in which great sprinters competed for three trophies between the 20th and 22nd of January.
In the first edition of the Challenge Ciclista Mallorca Femenina 2024, the Swiss competitor Noemi Rüegg was the winner in Colònia de Sant Jordi on 20 January. A day later, the Canadian Magdeleine Vallieres Mill won the Bellver Castle Trophy, while on the last day (22nd January) the Italian Eleanora Gasparrini won the Binissalem-Andratx Trophy.
Sustainability and sport, in our DNA
Garden Hotels, parent company of Nivia Born Boutique Hotel, will continue to be the official sponsor of the International Cycling Challenge until at least 2027. In this way, we want to reinforce our commitment to sustainability and the promotion of sport, two pillars of our philosophy that have led us to commit to hotels with the Cycling Friendly seal and to be pioneers in the field of the circular economy.
