The 12th Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain), a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the three grand tours, was held from 26 April to 12 May 1957. It consisted of 16 stages covering a total of , and was won by Jesús Loroño. Vicente Iturat won the points classification and Federico Bahamontes won the mountains classification.
Teams and riders
Route
+List of stages Stage Date Course Distance Type Winner 1 26 April Bilbao to Vitoria 2 27 April Vitoria to Santander 3 28 April Santander to Mieres 4 29 April Mieres to León Annulled 5 30 April León to Valladolid 6 1 May Valladolid to Madrid 7 2 May Madrid to Madrid 8 3 May Madrid to Cuenca 9 5 May Cuenca to Valencia 10 6 May Valencia to Tortosa 11 7 May Tortosa to Barcelona 12 8 May Igualada to Zaragoza 13 9 May Zaragoza to Huesca Individual time trial 14 10 May Huesca to Bayonne (France) 15 11 May Bayonne (France) to San Sebastián 16 12 May San Sebastián to Bilbao Total
Results +Final general classificationRankRiderTeamTime 1 Jesús Loroño 84h 44' 06" 2 Federico Bahamontes + 8' 11" 3 Bernardo Ruiz + 9' 34" 4 José Manuel Ribeiro Da Silva + 14' 32" 5 Raphaël Géminiani + 17' 07" 6 Francisco Moreno + 18' 43" 7 Jan Adriaenssens + 19' 38" 8 Pasquale Fornara + 23' 48" 9 Gastone Nencini + 25' 59" 10 Salvador Botella + 28' 06" 11 Guido Boni 12 Vicente Iturat 13 Jean Dotto 14 Alberto Sant 15 Roger Walkowiak 16 Carmelo Morales 17 Antonio Barbosa 18 Francisco Masip 19 Jean Malléjac 20 Antonio Ferraz 21 Antonio Suárez 22 Roger Baens 23 Benigno Aspuru 24 Gilbert Bauvin 25 Juan Campillo
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