The 2025 Tour de France will make three circuits of the historic Paris district of Montmartre on its last stage in what organisers say will add a competitive finale to the world's greatest bike race.
The new format of the final stage is unlikely to affect who wins the 21-day race but does away with the traditional parade-like final stage.
Following the 16.8km stretch around Montmartre, the peloton then heads to the Champs-Elysees where it will complete three circuits and end with a mass sprint in the shadow of the Arc de Triomphe.
Around half a million spectators gathered for the 2024 Paris Olympics cycling road races, sparking a clamour for the Tour to include Montmartre in its route.
The 2025 edition of the Tour de France marks the 50th anniversary of its first finale on the Champs-Elysees, traditionally considered Paris's most chic shopping road, in 1975.