The VCV – Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana has never started or finished a stage in the town of La Nucia. An anomaly for a town so linked to the sport, but that will be corrected this year. In the last 75th VCV, specifically during stage 4, the cycling caravan did pass through La Nucía on the way to the finish line in Vall d’Ebo where McNulty sentenced his victory in the general classification.
-
18.970 inhabitants
-
Marina Baja, Alicante
- https://www.lanucia.es/ – https://lanuciaciudaddeldeporte.com/

La Nucia is a reference in the world of cycling. In 2021 it hosted the Spanish Road Cycling Championship, where Omar Fraile won. It has hosted stages of the Vuelta a España and is a town chosen by many World Tour teams for their preseasons, such as UAE Team Emirates of Pogacar in recent years or Visma of Vingegaard in 2025.
La Nucia is a town of tertiary services linked to tourism, with a large industrial park, which serves the entire region of the Marina Baixa. It also has a food industry and already has several hotels, which have opened attracted by the large number of overnight stays generated by sporting events.
La Nucia is committed to culture and has an important Auditorium, with capacity for 600 people, with a full program throughout the year, with the best national theater, zarzuela, dance, opera, concerts and classical music. Like all Valencian towns, the band and choir of La Nucia, form every year hundreds of children who are initiated into the world of music.
La Nucia is known as the “City of Sport” for a commitment that began more than 20 years ago and has had national and international recognition with awards such as the National Sports Award or the European Sports Village awards. Its Camilo Cano Sports City is the greatest exponent with nearly 450,000 square meters of sports facilities.
Despite modernity and its spectacular growth, La Nucia has not lost its customs and traditions, taking care of its gastronomy. Its typical dishes are “arrós cuinat” (a rice stew with vegetables and pork), “les pilotes de dacsa” (pot with corn balls rolled up from a cabbage leaf) and minxos (vegetable dumplings with wild herbs and salt), which are eaten fried and baked.