The legendary journalists who covered the first edition of the Paris-Roubaix held after the First World War christened the cobblestone test as ‘the Northern Hell’. They did not do so because of the hardness of the route but because of a dantesque landscape destroyed by the armed strife; all were ruins, a massacre for the battles, for the dead, for the bombs and the shrapnel. Month and a half ago the Tour took place near Font Romeu, where the thi…
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The legendary journalists who covered the first edition of the Paris-Roubaix held after the First World War christened the cobblestone test as ‘the Northern Hell’. They did not do so because of the hardness of the route but because of a dantesque landscape destroyed by the armed strife; all were ruins, a massacre for the battles, for the dead, for the bombs and the shrapnel. Month and a half ago the Tour took place near Font Romeu, where the thi…