"The Giro tells" is back, just as the Pink Race has been returning to Naples and Campania for four consecutive years. The incredible journey through the history of cycling and the social life of our region continues and Gian Paolo Porreca's volume, now in its third edition, is enriched with more unforgettable pages. The arrivals in Campania are now 122, tracing the history of the Giro from 1909 to 2024. An important update, on the occasion of the 2025 edition of the race and its 6th stage, the Potenza-Naples on May 15th.

There is a subtle but indissoluble pink thread that connects the Giro d'Italia to Naples and Campania. A visceral connection that Gian Paolo Porreca recounts through stories of great champions, simple cyclists, and bike enthusiasts. It crosses decades, retraces stages, outlines the figures of protagonists, and illuminates the places of their feats. The Giro tells takes us lightly through cities and places of Campania that have become scenarios of great sporting achievements. From the era of Girardengo and Binda to the wonderful years of rivalry between Coppi and Bartali, and then those of the Cannibal Merckx and the beloved Gimondi. To arrive at the endless challenges between Moser and Saronni and then, again, to the victorious seasons of Bugno, Indurain, Pantani, Nibali, up to the current era of the phenomenon Pogacar.

In the volume's introduction, it reads: "The Giro tells" confirms itself as a suggestive collection of stories of champions, men, and love for the bicycle, united by a pink thread, light but indestructible, which envelops and involves 36 localities and municipalities chosen as arrival sites for the 122 stages in Campania. Names that Andrea Delehaye, who created all the beautiful covers of The Giro tells, has transformed into a memorable back cover.

Stage after stage, the volume follows a path through eras and the feats of great champions of the Pink Race, using the Giro arrivals in Campania as a common thread to tell the epic of Great Cycling, up to the unforgettable Neapolitan stages of recent years and with a romantic but detailed presentation of the 2025 edition and Naples stage.

New Pink Pages enrich the traditional collection of romantic cycling and road cameos, created by Gian Paolo Porreca. A true literary journey that runs parallel to the race stages.

A wonderful story by the passionate Gianfranco Coppola, a practicing cyclist and a top-tier journalist, embellishes the book. A fantasy story with two special correspondents as protagonists. The journalist Coppola, of course, and the great poet Alfonso Gatto who, between memories, newspaper articles that become poems and memorable encounters with champions like Fausto Coppi, follow the Pink Race. A story represents the purest way to celebrate and share the love for two wheels. And that's why a few years ago Gian Paolo Porreca and Gianfranco Coppola had involved their friend Gian Paolo Ormezzano, one of the great storytellers of journalism in Italy. GPO had then gifted us a memorable story, making us proud. Today, as he is no longer with us, we remember him simply, using love and purity to write about cycling, as he taught us.

It is the story of memorable feats, like those of Coppi in 1947 and Merckx in 1968 in Naples. Of young Saronni in Ravello in 1978. Of the unleashed Moser between Caserta and Naples in 1979, of Cipollini and his king-like sprint in Via Caracciolo in 1996. The Giro tells continues to accompany us, with emotion and passion, through the seasons of Great Cycling that we love so much.

The volume will be available in bookstores from Monday, April 7th, with the official presentation scheduled for Tuesday, April 15th at 6 PM at LaFeltrinelli Libri e Musica in Via Santa Caterina, 21 in Naples. If you can, don't miss it: it will be an opportunity to relive emotions, discover new stories, and breathe the air of great pink cycling.