Thursday, August 25th - Stage 6163.2km
Mid-mountain stage where no one should let their guard down, between Monforte de Lemos and Luintra, in the Ribeira Sacra, crossing the spectacular canyons of the Sil River, whose last 70 kilometres are very windy, in a succession of climbs and descents all the way to the finish-line. In the final part of the stage, the peloton will come face to face with the Alto de Alenza, a 2nd category climb, that will not necessarily make much of a difference to the general classification, but it may well break the group up and prevent a mass arrival at the end. The road narrows in the final kilometres of the stage, which will be one of the most beautiful landscape discoveries of the 2016 Vuelta.
