Una vuelta diferente: la I Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla en 1934

This research article, based on newspaper sources and starting from a historical-social perspective, focuses on the socio-political analysis of cycling in Castile, understood as the region comprising Old Castile and New Castile. The introduction of new sports, which paved the way for cycling, occurred under different criteria in each territory of Spain during the Restoration and the Second Republic. Castile, given its late industrialisation, followed its own path, describing an axis of interior-exterior development, a transversal genesis in terms of ideology, and a highly differentiated dual evolution. It was in this context that the main objective of this research, the Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla (1934), emerged, tracing with its route a Castilian unity that evoked the Castilian Federal Pact of 1869.