This is the second part of the route following the Pyrenees stages.

A stage that favours attempts to breakaway and goes through two third category mountains passes - PUERTO DEL OROEL and ALTO DE CASAS DE EXPE.  Here, sprinters teams have to control things for a group arrival to Saragossa.

As usual, in this zone, the last stretch is virtually level, but exposed to the likely winds that will lead to zigzagging.

Saragossa long experience, for it has hosted 47 times Spain’s Vuelta stage finishings, will again see the Race go through its streets in a more than likely sprint.

The last time, during the seventh stage of the past edition, Erik Zabel was the winner ahead of Allan Davis and Paolo Bettini.