There are geographical accidents whose name seems like a perfect marketing exercise. And that were baptized long before marketing existed. They are places that, just being summoned, evoke adventures and legends. By the force of words, human interactions with the place are added, with the passage of time. A single feat, a single day of glory, can forever install a mountain in the sentimental memory of a generation. Especially if it coincides with adolescence.
For cycling fans, Mortirolo-1,300 meters of uneven Of the children who, that June 5, glimpsed the summer holidays on the horizon. Because that day, in front of the TV, thousands of people watched how Miguel Indurain amounted to that mountain of suggestive name and, in each pedaling, promoted the illusion of a hobby that believed it invincible. And it was during the ascent. It remained to descend and undertake the climb to the Valoto de Santa Cristina, who does not even sound like the Mortirolo, nor is it as hard as the Mortirolo, but that came after the mortirolo has climbed. And then it happened that a whole generation understood that life is not eternal and that you have to enjoy the moments as they come. He understood later, of course, because live there was no time to assimilate that the great Indurain was giving him a bird. That all certainty existing to date were dissolving live.
The Giro de Italia (Route books) Gather the chronicles written about the Italian round by journalist Marcos Pereda. A combination of history and news that brilliantly transmits the sensations that the test has been generating decades. A way to look at the soul of Italy through cycling and magic of words. Mortololo How it sounds.
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