S14 Ep39: Stage 6 | Paestum - Naples | Giro d’Italia 2026
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🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Daniel Friebe, Brian Nygaard and Michele Pelacci take you to the heart of the action, on the ground, at the Giro d‘Italia.
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Stage 4: Tenuta del Conte, Calabria Rosso, Calabria (red)
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Stage 14: Les Crêtes Mon Blanc, Valle D’Aosta (white)
Stage 20: Braida Antica Blanc, Russolo, Friuli Venezia-Giulia (white)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Girovagando, the cycling podcast at the 2026 Girod Italia. |
| 0:13.6 | The cycling podcast, every day on the ground at the Girod Italia since 2016. |
| 0:20.5 | Today we are in Napoli. |
| 0:21.9 | Brian, |
| 0:36.4 | Buonacera, |
| 0:37.9 | from Naples what a setting, Brian. From Naples Buonacera, Daniele. |
| 0:39.6 | From Naples. |
| 0:40.7 | What a setting, Brian, describe the scene. |
| 0:42.7 | I mean, it's not the most opulent pew that we have, |
| 0:46.3 | almost literally sitting on pews, |
| 0:48.0 | but not the most opulent seating arrangement for us, |
| 0:50.8 | but an opulent setting. |
| 0:52.4 | Yeah, certainly. |
| 0:53.3 | I mean, once we finally made it to naples |
| 0:55.8 | driving it i've never thought i'd be able to drive a car where we arrived we were in the fortetta |
| 1:01.3 | like one of the most iconic settings in naples where the chapel i didn't even know there was a chapel |
| 1:07.4 | inside the fortetta where the salasdampa was today indeed Indeed, Brian, the Castel Nuevo built in, sometimes referred to, I don't really know the etymology of this name, what it means, and the Masque Anjoino. It's also called, first directed in the late 13th century, Brian, did you know about the conspiracy of the barons? You posed for me by a sign about the conspiracy of the |
| 1:27.6 | barons earlier. I was reading about it. The conspiracy of the barons was a revolution against |
| 1:32.2 | Ferranti of Aragon, the King of Naples by the Neapolitan aristocracy in 1485 and 1486. |
| 1:41.0 | Brian, there's a hall of the barons. We're looking at it. There, the epilogue of the famous conspiracy of the barons |
| 1:46.6 | occurred. |
| 1:47.5 | So the war against the King Ferdinand I, the first of Naples, |
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