Located in Italy’s Liguria region, the Cipressa begins in the charming seaside town of San Lorenzo Al Mare and ends in the small commune of Cipressa. While not a particularly steep or long climb, it’s been made famous as a key attack point where sprinters are dropped in the Milan-San Remo classic race. (In fact, all of the top times on the Strava leaderboard were set in recent editions of that race!)

This fairly steady climb averages ~4.2% for the first 5km, then it eases up for the final 1.4km.

Here’s the IRL segment: