Giro-E Enel: inaugurates Green Fun Village by Continental

Inauguration ceremony held in Piazza Sant’Oronzo in Lecce last night. Today it will host the Teams Presentation with the various teams and captains competing in the 2025 Giro-E Enel. First stage on 13 May starting from Ostuni.

The second edition will offer even more content in a larger exhibition area, thus making it an increasingly important event showcasing the electric world and sustainable mobility.

The 2024 edition included over 100,000 visitors and more than 100 cultural associations, bodies and sports associations, with a total of 45,000 environmentally friendly free gifts being distributed. Some of the exhibitors of the 2025 edition are Continental (Main Sponsor), Enel, MOST (National Centre on Sustainable Mobility), Trenitalia, Lombardo Bikes, Rovagnati, MCZ and many local partners differing from one stage to another.

Quotes

Giorgio Cattaneo, Head of Communication at Continental Italia: “This will be our third year in a row as Main Sponsors of Giro-E’s start village. The Green Fun Village by Continental is a hub of information and fun that can be enjoyed by people of all ages in all the cities of Giro-E.”

Roberto Salvador, Director of Giro-E Enel: “Every year we are very excited to inaugurate a new edition of Giro-E Enel. Doing so with a preview of the Green Fun Village before the beginning of the stages shows how important our start village has become. The inauguration, first with mayor Poli Bortone and then with the DJ set in the evening with internationally renowned DJ and producer Federico Scavo, has been extraordinary, as the Teams Presentation will be. The Green Fun Village has become a cornerstone of Giro-E.”

Adriana Poli Bortone, Mayor of Lecce. “The Giro d’Italia creates a thrilling sense of competition that can be felt by all cycling enthusiasts, thanks to Giro-E’s exclusive e-bike experience. Athletes and cycling enthusiasts will get to experience riding across the route of champions on an e-bike. It’s an opportunity for everyone to follow in the tracks of great athletes and get a first-hand experience of this cycling event. I am proud that Lecce is hosting the inauguration of the Green Fun Village and the first stage finish of the 2025 Giro-E.”

Green Fun Village

Here are the main topics presented by the Green Fun Village in the towns involved in the event:

micromobility (e-bikes and electric motorcycles and charging systems);
safeguarding the environment (collection and recycling systems, solutions with a small environmental impact);
sustainability.

There will be workshops, talks, interviews, games, animations, exhibition stands, bike tests, local engagement activities to involve an audience that is not necessarily fond of cycling as well as a pump track for children with the Lombardo Bikes brand.

Visitors of the Green Fun Village will also be able to enjoy live music played by local bands and interact with athletes and guests for each stage, while at the Green Kiosk they will be able to enjoy the best food and wine of the area thanks to event partner Birra San Gabriel.

Students will be taking part in Biciscuola, an educational project for primary schools located in towns along the route of the Giro d’Italia, Giro-E and all the other races organised by RCS Sport. Biciscuola aims at showing children the importance of cycling and to encourage them to take up cycling, while also discussing issues such as learning about well-being, the environment and road safety. In 2024, over 18 stages, 33,000 children from 1,269 classes that had signed up participated in the event. 415 schoolchildren and 23 classes won prizes.

The Gaming Area of the Green Fun Village is constantly growing; this year it includes:

Pallavolo incrociato by Continental
Gioco sfida a due by IMATRA
GRAN TIRO by Rovagnati
Cornhole by Toyota

The 2025 edition of Giro-E will also include many workshops. Here are the ones that have already been confirmed:

10 May – LECCE: 5pm – 6:30pm (MOST)
13 May – OSTUNI: 12:30pm- 3:00pm (ANCI)
14 May – GINOSA: 12:30pm- 3:00pm (ANCI)
17 May – CAMERINO: 12:45pm- 3:30pm (ANCI)
22 May – REGGIO EMILIA: 1:00PM – 4:00 pm (ANCI in collaboration with MOST)
23 May – SOAVE: 11:45am – 2:30 pm (MOST in collaboration with ANCI)
28 May – TIRANO: 12:15pm – 3:30 pm (ANCI in collaboration with MOST)
29 May – BIASSONO: 1:15pm- 4:00pm (ANCI)

2025 Giro-E Enel Teams presentation

This evening, in Lecce, the Green Fun Village will be hosting the 2025 Giro-E Enel Teams Presentation with all the captains.

A whopping 27 teams will be competing this year: 18 Official Teams will take part in all the stages, 9 Daily Teams will only be participating in one or a few stages of the only Grand Tour in the world with pedal-assisted race bikes, a truly exclusive cycling experience.

Great cycling champions will be in attendance, true icons of the sport: Gianni Bugno, Claudio Chiappucci, Igor Astarloa, Damiano Cunego, Andrea Tafi, along with former professionals such as Marco Canola, Sacha Modolo, Marco Benfatto, with whom the participants will get to compete and cycle together on the roads closed to traffic, an extraordinary experience for cycling enthusiasts.

Television host Justine Mattera will be attending the event this year, as well as many captains who have by now become the soul of Giro-E, such as Amedeo Tabini (ever since the first stage of the zero edition in 2018), Elisa Scarlatta, Lello Ferrara, Emiliano Cantagallo, Giuseppe Bica, as well as paracyclist and triathlete Andrea Pusateri, athletic trainer Umberto Carfora.

The 2025 edition of Giro-E Enel will include 18 stages, between 13 May and 1 June: from Ostuni to Rome, with a total of 1,098 kilometres with nearly 20,000metres of elevation gain.