Every year, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec is an event popular with the cycling community in the old capital. The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec circuit is perfect for those used to steep climbs and descents.
What started out with stickers for a group of tired Wednesday-morning diehards, manifested into a collective art project.
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec is an event registered on the UCI WorldTour calendar thus ensuring, through this prestigious label, the participation of the 18 WorldTeams composed of the greatest riders of the planet. This international cycling competition will be run in the heart of the “Vieille Capitale,” an outstanding venue for this exciting GP. Its hilly terrain, made to measure for a race like this, and its undeniable charms will make the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec a prestigious, unifying event like no other.
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec circuit will be particularly well suited to punchers and those used to steep descents. Riders will complete 16 laps, and the hill climb to the finish line in Old Québec promises to be spectacular! Expect an extremely challenging race for the world’s best cyclists.
The start of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec is in front of the Parc de la Francophonie on Grande Allée.
Musette is a perfect place to have a coffee or a drink before, during or after the event.
The Café Faux Mouvement in Old Quebec is a small place that we particularly like at Mappa. It's also a great place to watch runners go by at full speed!
Unlike the Tour de France where it is often a more linear course, the courses of the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Montréal are loops that are repeated several times by the riders. So it's a great event to see cyclists pass by nearby several times!