Along the Costa del Azahar
A breather after three brutal days: the route from Puçol to Xeraco is mostly flat and runs along the Valencian coast, past orange groves.
The Puerto de Barx as a trap
The second-category Puerto de Barx looms 22 kilometres from the line — too far out to matter for the GC, but exactly far enough to climb the purest sprinters out of contention.