1974 Tour de France
Route and stages
The 1974 Tour de France started on 27 June, and had two rest days, in Aix-les-Bains and Colomiers.

1974 Tour de France

Section Title: Route and stages
Table Section Text: The 1974 Tour de France started on 27 June, and had two rest days, in Aix-les-Bains and Colomiers.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Type	Winner

P	27 June	Brest	7 km (4.3 mi)	Individual time trial	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

1	28 June	Brest to Saint-Pol-de-Léon	144 km (89 mi)	Plain stage	Ercole Gualazzini (ITA)

2	29 June	Plymouth (United Kingdom)	164 km (102 mi)	Plain stage	Henk Poppe (NED)

3	30 June	Morlaix to Saint-Malo	190 km (120 mi)	Plain stage	Patrick Sercu (BEL)

4	1 July	Saint-Malo to Caen	184 km (114 mi)	Plain stage	Patrick Sercu (BEL)

5	2 July	Caen to Dieppe	165 km (103 mi)	Plain stage	Ronald de Witte (BEL)

6a	3 July	Dieppe to Harelbeke (Belgium)	239 km (149 mi)	Plain stage	Jean-Luc Molineris (FRA)

6b	Harelbeke (Belgium)	9 km (5.6 mi)	Team time trial	Molteni

7	4 July	Mons (Belgium) to Châlons-sur-Marne	221 km (137 mi)	Plain stage	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

8a	5 July	Châlons-sur-Marne to Chaumont	136 km (85 mi)	Plain stage	Cyrille Guimard (FRA)

8b	Chaumont to Besançon	152 km (94 mi)	Plain stage	Patrick Sercu (BEL)

9	6 July	Besançon to Gaillard	241 km (150 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

10	7 July	Gaillard to Aix-les-Bains	131 km (81 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

11	8 July	Aix-les-Bains to Serre Chevalier	199 km (124 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Vicente Lopez Carril (ESP)

9 July	Aix-les-Bains	Rest day

12	10 July	Savines-le-Lac to Orange	231 km (144 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Jos Spruyt (BEL)

13	11 July	Avignon to Montpellier	126 km (78 mi)	Plain stage	Barry Hoban (GBR)

14	12 July	Lodève to Colomiers	249 km (155 mi)	Plain stage	Jean-Pierre Genet (FRA)

13 July	Colomiers	Rest day

15	14 July	Colomiers to La Seu d'Urgell (Spain)	225 km (140 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

16	15 July	La Seu d'Urgell to Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet	209 km (130 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Raymond Poulidor (FRA)

17	16 July	Saint-Lary-Soulan to La Mongie	119 km (74 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (FRA)

18	17 July	Bagnères-de-Bigorre to Pau	141 km (88 mi)	Stage with mountain(s)	Jean-Pierre Danguillaume (FRA)

19a	18 July	Pau to Bordeaux	196 km (122 mi)	Plain stage	Francis Campaner (FRA)

19b	Bordeaux	12 km (7.5 mi)	Individual time trial	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

20	19 July	Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie to Nantes	120 km (75 mi)	Plain stage	Gerard Vianen (NED)

21a	20 July	Vouvray to Orléans	113 km (70 mi)	Plain stage	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

21b	Orléans	37 km (23 mi)	Individual time trial	Michel Pollentier (BEL)

22	21 July	Orléans to Paris	146 km (91 mi)	Plain stage	Eddy Merckx (BEL)

Total	4,098 km (2,546 mi)

Sentence(s)

The 1974 Tour de France took place between 27 June and 21 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,098 km (2,546 mi).

final_sentence: The 1974 Tour de France took place between 27 June and 21 July, with 22 stages covering a distance of 4,098 km (2,546 mi).