Among the races that in 2026 will enrich the professional calendar in Italy and contribute to the growing capillarity of major cycling across our country's territories, in step with the expansion of the Coppa Italia delle Regioni, the project coordinated by the Professional Cycling League president Roberto Pella and the Conference of Italian Regions, there will be the Gran Premio del Lazio. A race that is entirely new, but which in the collective imagination will revive the history of the Giro del Lazio (of which you can see a photo above relating to Gianni Bugno's success in 1992).

The Gran Premio del Lazio is scheduled for Saturday, September 19, at the culmination of a week characterized by the Giro d'Abruzzo and in a weekend that will then be completed by the Giro della Romagna on Sunday the 20th. The exact route is not yet known. We can hypothesize a start from the inland areas of the region and a finish in Rome, to be agreed upon with assessor Alessandro Onorato, the man who brought the Giro d'Italia finish back to the capital three years ago. What we certainly know is the organizer: Claudio Terenzi, who with the decisive backing of Onorato revived in 2021 the Gran Premio della Liberazione, an end-of-April appointment that has now become a cycling celebration at the Caracalla Baths for all categories.

With the fundamental contribution of the chairwoman of the promotional committee Hon. Maria Spena, counselor for Sport e Salute, Terenzi assures that he will organize a highly challenging race that will showcase both endurance and power. Whoever wins will inaugurate a completely new roll of honor, that of the Gran Premio del Lazio, but will romantically fit into the legacy of the Giro del Lazio, last held in 2014 with Valverde's signature and which had seen names of the caliber of Bartali, Magni, Baldini, Gimondi, De Vlaeminck, Moser, Fondriest, Bugno, Tafi, Bartoli, Bettini succeed one another...