 The opening stage left Porto @-@ Vecchio and ended in Bastia , with next two stages ending in Ajaccio and Calvi respectively . The race then moved to mainland France at Nice . Stages five to eight formed a four @-@ stage journey that navigated westwards finishing at the Ax 3 <unk> ski resort in the Pyrenees . Stage nine took place between Saint @-@ <unk> to Bagnères @-@ de @-@ Bigorre , before riders took an air transfer to the north @-@ west of the country . Stage ten finished in the port city of Saint @-@ Malo , with the next finishing at the Mont Saint @-@ Michel island commune in Normandy . The following four stages , 11 to 15 , crossed the center of the country back to the south @-@ east finishing atop Mont Ventoux . The next five stages took place in and around the Alps , before a second air transfer took the Tour to the finish with the Champs @-@ Élysées stage in Paris . 
