You can never have too much Guggenheim - the peloton passes Bilbao's famous museum on its way to the real start...
SCNERYGUGGENHEIMVUELTA
Dan Martin and Nicholas Roche share a joke about the Irish and the English before the racing begins...
FRIENDSVUELTA
Jorge Azanza is one of two cyclists carrying a TV camera today - and it sends a live signal to the helicopter and then into peoples' living rooms...
No joking now - Roche has made it ino the day big 25-rider escape...
ESCAPEVUELTA
Radio Shack started a furious case to begin with, but then let the escape go clear...
OLIVEIRAVUELTA
Juan Jose Cobo could almost pass as a member of Radio Shack with that red jersey...
GEOXVUELTA
The peloton climbs the 1st category Alto del Elosua about five minutes behind the escape...
Despite have jan Bakelandt in the escape, Omega-Pharma riders are setting a steady pursuit pace...
LANGVUELTA
It's another scorching hot day in the Vuelta - Albert Timmer is one of many riders doing water-carrying duties...
Pablo Lastras and Mikel Nieve are pushing the break along towards the Urkiola mountain, but their lead is down to about three minutes...
MOVISTARVUELTA
For who is Radio Shack working then? Matthew Busche has been leading a hard chase towards the last climb of the Vuelta...
BUSCHEVUELTA
It looks as if Roche is attacking on the Urkiola climb...
Roche is actually chasing and catching Carlos Barredo - but the Spaniard will pull away again and cross the summit ahead...
More importantly, Daniele Bennati has made good progress in the escape and will cross the summit not far behind Roche and Barredo...
LEOPARDVUELTA
Carlos Sastre is leading the main group towards the summit - they'll pick up the Bennati and Roche groups but not Barredo...
CHASEVUELTA
Luis Angel Mate has almost bridged across from the peloton to Barredo, but doesn't quite make it...
Barredo is holding a 40-seconds lead on the long road to Vitoria - he'll take the bonus sprint with 20-kilometres to go...
Leopard's Rohregger and O'Grady are now chasing hard, their man Bennati is the only true sprinter in this main group..!
ROHREGGERVUELTA
Sastre has jumped away from the main group to take bonus seconds at the sprint and deny Chris Froome the chance to threaten Cobo's lead...
Barredo has waited for Sastre, their job for Cobo done - and the pair then perform a duet for TV before being caught...
The sprint looks dangerous with so many non-sprinters sprinting..!
Daniele Bennati wins into Vitoria to give Leopard-Trek its first - and possibly last - Vuelta stage-win..!
"Well done mate" - O'Grady and Rohregger celebrate a hard-earned win...