# Stage 16: Bellinzona → Carì · Giro d'Italia 2026

Tuesday, May 26 (2026-05-26) · 113 km · Mountain Stage · Start 13:45 local

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The final week opens in Switzerland with a short mountain stage to Carì. The distance invites a hard race from the opening kilometers.

**Stages shaped like this fell to a late solo attack 16 of 25 times — climbers took 12 of those 16.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Torre** — Cat 3, at km 32.2, 4.7 km long, avg 5.5%, 259 m gain
- **Leontica** — Cat 2, at km 43.5, 3 km long, avg 8.5%, 255 m gain
- **Torre** — Cat 3, at km 54.2, 26.7 km long, avg 1%, 267 m gain
- **Leontica** — Cat 2, at km 65.5, 3 km long, avg 8.5%, 255 m gain
- **CARÌ** — Cat 1, at km 113, 11.7 km long, avg 7.9%, 924 m gain

## Intermediate sprints

- **Ludiano** — intermediate sprint at km 74.7

Total elevation gain: 2706 m · Max elevation: 1645 m

Best viewing window (local time): 16:29–17:14.

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Data by Parcours (https://parcours.sh) — elevation profiles, key climbs and watch windows for the 2026 WorldTour season.