Celebrating its Jubilee Year, Caravaca de la Cruz, although already familiar a finishing point, will be the starting point for this stage which will once again finish in Murcia as it did in 2009. The highly well-known, spectacular Cresta del Gallo will be the surprise somewhat over ten kilometers from the finish line.

Although this stage does not promise to be complicated, it is the second shortest stage, and the famous Cresta del Gallo climb, so near the finish line, will be complicating the approach for the sprinters, who will be vying to make a place for themselves in this stage’s breakaway for the finish line.