Milan outsprints Van Aert to win Tour stage eight, Pogacar still in yellow
Milan, riding his first Tour, looked to have been caught off guard when Van Aert (Visma–Lease a Bike) hit the front, but the Italian battled back to overtake the Belgian, with Australian Kaden Groves (Alpecin–Deceuninck) coming in third.
Slovenia's Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) remains 54 seconds ahead of Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick-Step) in the overall standings- REUTERS
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Now Bari, with its 14.5km seafront promenade and the tomb of the real St Nicholas, is beginning to capitalise on the region's growing appeal, its old days of mob crime mostly behind it. 'This great appeal to tourists has made the people of Bari rediscover a little bit of pride,' mayor Vito Leccese said. 'The more tourists come, the more important we feel, because it means our city is well-liked.' Yet there is also some trepidation among residents that – although Bari is hardly Florence, Rome or Venice – it, too, could be overrun by tourists, or at least profoundly reshaped by them. Does a city that only recently remade its identity now risk losing it? A man riding his bicycle through Piazza Mercantile in Bari. 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'If you want to rent a Ferrari in the airports of Puglia, it is not a problem,' said Vasile. 'The problem is finding a bus.' Bari has come so far that it is easy to be optimistic about its future, said Gianrico Carofiglio, a novelist and former anti-mafia prosecutor. He recalled how he avoided certain neighbourhoods in his youth because they were so crime-ridden. By the time his own daughter was a teenager, she was safe walking alone most anywhere at night. 'The city was transformed, from all points of view,' he said. More shops and cafes. More culture, including an annual film festival. More writers like him who set much of their work in Bari or Puglia. 'It was as if something had been uncorked and the city became an interesting place, full of life and opportunities – obviously with many problems still,' said Carofiglio, who now lives in Rome, crediting several capable administrations, and police officers and prosecutors like himself, for helping to turn around Bari. 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And foreigners join the throng of visitors to Arco Basso street, where women sell ear-shaped orecchiette pasta despite accusations that some sell store-bought goods and the periodic crackdowns on local restaurants that buy untraceable pasta. For now, Vasile understands that most of Bari's tourism will be centred on the warmest months – unlike Rome and Venice, which have plenty of visitors all year. Tourism slows so much in Bari's winter that many of its souvenir shops were still shut down in this season's waning days. Standing near the airport tarmac with a view of the Adriatic during that visitor lull, Vasile allowed himself to imagine a future in which Bari becomes a year-round destination. The flights from New York, he hopes, could just be the start. 'We have become aware of new possibilities,' he said. — ©2025 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
