Organizer Unipublic has announced that the revamped La Vuelta Femenina will open on May 1 along Spain's Costa Blanca coast.

The 200-km-long Mediterranean coast is a popular tourist destination in the province of Alicante, but organizers have not revealed the exact location of the opening stage.

Teams have complained about the lack of information about the seven-day race, but Unipublic has confirmed that the entire route will be made public at a ceremony on February 28.

"The first edition of La Vuelta Femenina by Carrefour.es will start on the Costa Blanca. The complete route of the race will be announced at a ceremony on February 28, also on the Costa Blanca, and more details will be revealed soon," the organizers wrote in a press release on Thursday.

The Costa Blanca is also a popular cycling route among professional teams, which hold annual preseason training camps in cities such as Denia, Altea, and Alicante. Benidorm also recently hosted the UCI Cyclocross World Cup.

In a major shakeup of the former Serratigit Challenge by La Vuelta, organizers have renamed it La Vuelta Femina, expanded the race to seven stages, and moved it from May 1 to 7 in 2023.

Launched as a one-day race in Madrid in 2015, the event was expanded to two stages in 2018, with a third stage added in 2020. It was further expanded to four stages in 2021 and five stages in 2022.

Former champions of the competition include Shelly Olds (2015), Jolien Dufour (2016, 2017), Ellen van Dijk (2018), Lisa Brennauer (2019, 2020), and Annemiek van Fluten won the previous two editions in 2021 and 2022.