Key points:
- As part of its La Vuelta es Más social programme, La Vuelta continues to promote the Más Bici quality seal in 2026 - a distinction that rates and recognises host cities committed to encouraging daily bicycle use.
- Following its 2025 debut edition, which was open to only five cities, this year all municipalities that have ever hosted the Spanish Grand Tour throughout its history may apply.
- Municipalities will be invited to complete an application dossier, to be evaluated by cycling policy experts, highlighting their cycling initiatives in five key areas: Governance, Infrastructure, Services and Education, Sports and Tourism.
- The results will be announced on the 3rd of July, 50 days before the start of La Vuelta 26.
With the La Vuelta es Más programme, La Vuelta hopes to create a lasting legacy and inspire values that bring people together beyond just the sport itself. One of the key pillars behind this global social initiative is the promotion of cycling as a lifestyle, in conjunction with sponsors and host cities, connecting the champions’ bicycles with those of the general public. This is how the Más Bici quality seal was born - as a seal of approval that recognises cities committed to sustainable mobility and to the promotion of cycling as a part of everyday life, through an evaluation process that highlights good practices while also identifying potential opportunities for improvement.
Launched in 2025, to mark the 90th anniversary of La Vuelta, the five cities present along the route of La Vuelta and La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es, both in 1935 and in 2025, were the very first to be awarded the seal: Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Valladolid and Zaragoza. This year, La Vuelta is opening up the project even further, offering all the Spanish municipalities that have ever hosted the event the chance to apply and prove their commitment to daily bicycle use.
Regardless of their size, the municipalities are invited to complete an application dossier in order to highlight their cycling initiatives in five key areas: Governance, Infrastructure, Services and Education, Sports and Tourism. A jury consisting of cycling policy experts will evaluate the dossiers and analyse their merits, highlight existing cycling initiatives and identify opportunities for improvement. In the aim of encouraging positive emulation and a healthy competition among municipalities, the best examples of such initiatives will be shared.
The results will be announced on the 3rd of July, 50 days before the start of La Vuelta 26, which will take off from Monaco, thus offering the municipalities that are awarded the seal a communication platform from which to showcase their initiatives and commitment to cycling.
