Poitiers, known as “the city of a hundred bell towers” and a site of major historical battles, has hosted four Tour stage finishes. Jean Forestier (1955), Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (1971), Sean Kelly (1978), and Caleb Ewan (2020) were victorious here. Each July, Poitiers also hosts the start of the Picto-Charentaise, the fifth of eight events in the Elite Women’s French Cup, in front of its town hall.
• Prefecture of the department of Vienne (86)
• Population: 90,300; 197,300 within the Greater Poitiers municipality; 439,500 within the department of Vienne
- Ville de Poitiers : poitiers.fr
- Grand Poitiers : grandpoitiers.fr