The Étoile de Bessèges (English: Star of Bessèges) is an early-season five-day road bicycle racingstage race held annually around Bessèges, in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of France. First organized in 1971 as a one-day race, it became a stage race run over five days in 1974. Since 2005, it is on the calendar of the UCI Europe Tour as a 2.1 event and features as the earliest stage races of the European season.[1]
^"Étoile de Bessèges – Et. 5 : Les réactions". directvelo.com (in French). Retrieved 22 February 2016.
^ ab"News shorts: New French stage race planned for February". Cycling News. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
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