# Stage 7: Formia → Blockhaus · Giro d'Italia 2026

Friday, May 15 (2026-05-15) · 244 km · Mountain Stage · Start 10:45 local

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The first major climbing test comes early with a huge day to Blockhaus. GC riders should be fully exposed by the summit finish.

**Stages shaped like this were decided by the GC favourites 4 of 8 times.** (aggregated from the closest 2011–2025 WorldTour lookalikes in the Parcours similarity corpus)

## Key climbs

- **Roccaraso** — Cat 2, at km 166.4, 6.9 km long, avg 6.5%, 449 m gain
- **BLOCKHAUS** — Cat 1, at km 244, 13.6 km long, avg 8.4%, 1142 m gain

## Intermediate sprints

- **Venafro** — intermediate sprint at km 112.4

Total elevation gain: 3989 m · Max elevation: 1658 m

Best viewing window (local time): 16:26–17:11.

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