Stage 11: May 19 2010 - Lucera - L'Aquila 262 km

In the wake of last year's earthquake centred on L'Aquila, Italian president Giorgio Napolitano encouraged race organisers RCS to take the Giro to the town. They are doing so via the corsa rosa's longest stage for a decade. Even more than the day before, this stage will suit breakaways, and might even shake up the overall, although probably not as much as it did in 1914 when race leader Giuseppe Azzini never reached the finish in L'Aquila and was found the next day, racked with fever, taking shelter at a country house near Popoli, 50km away.

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