The Olympic Flame will leave Rome on 6 December 2025

The Journey of the Olympic Flame in Italy will start in Rome on 6 December 2025 and will end in Cortina d'Ampezzo on 26 January 2026 on the anniversary of the first Winter Olympic Games organised in the Peninsula. After its ignition in Stoke Mandeville, the Paralympic Flame will travel for 11 days and cover two thousand kilometres until it reaches the Arena of Verona on 6 March. The routes were presented yesterday in Verona. "Each step of the Great Journey through our cities will become a moment of celebration and reflection, reminding us of the power of sport in building bridges and breaking down barriers," emphasised Giovanni Malagò, president of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Foundation. In particular, the Journey of the Olympic Flame, which has Coca Cola and Eni as partners, will last 63 days and include 60 stage cities and 12,000 kilometres to be covered, touching all 110 provinces and involving 10,001 torchbearers. The Journey will begin on 26 November 2025 in Olympia, with the lighting of the sacred fire that will then arrive in Italy, in Rome, on 4 December from where, two days later, it will begin its journey. It will be in Naples at Christmas and on 26 January it will return, exactly 70 years after the Opening Ceremony of the Games, to Cortina d'Ampezzo and will conclude its journey in Milan by making its entrance at the San Siro on the evening of Friday, 6 February 2026. "The arrival of the Flame in Italy, and its journey across the nation, is the moment when the Games enter people's homes. It is the moment when Milan Cortina 2026 becomes Italy by celebrating the union of national pride,' explained Andrea Varnier, CEO of the Milan Cortina 2026 Foundation.
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