The Tour of Flanders is Belgium's biggest day of the year, the race they call De Ronde, or Vlaanderens Mooiste, the most beautiful of Flanders. First run in 1913, it sends the peloton over a brutal sequence of short cobbled climbs, the Oude Kwaremont, the Koppenberg and the Paterberg, where the steepest ramps touch twenty per cent. It is a race of position and power, won by riders strong enough to be at the front when the road tilts up and the cobbles begin. A small club of legends has won it three times, among them Fiorenzo Magni, Tom Boonen and Fabian Cancellara. Tadej Pogačar joined that group in 2026 with another long-range attack over the Kwaremont. To win in Flanders is to become part of the region's folklore.