La Vuelta a España means either the return to Spain or the tour at Spain in my book. Why isn’t it DE España meaning of Spain?

Because they don’t speak French in Spain…? Vengo de Espana….

Why not Tour OF Yorkshire. (This boils my piss the most)

https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/17809/why-is-the-cycle-race-called-la-vuelta-a-espa%C3%B1a-not-de

Why not Tour OF Yorkshire. (This boils my piss the most)

IIRC it’s a French race in Yorkshire, run by ASO?

Surely it should be Tour ‘Yorkshire, if it’s always in the native tongue?

Surely it should be Tour ‘Yorkshire, if it’s always in the native tongue?

Tour o’ Yorkshire surely (a very short “o” by the way)?

Dar la vuelta al mundo = go around the world

La Tierra da una vuelta al sol.

Etc..

And, the preposition a/al goes with vuelta, so it’s Vuelta a Gran Bretaña, vuelta al País Vasco, but Giro de Italia, Tour de Francia, Tour de Yorkshire
…

Standardise the lot and use Esperanto?

T’t’Y’shire?

Tour o’ Yarkshire surely

FTFY

Standardise the lot and use Esperanto?

if you like Esperanto so much why don’t you go and bloody live there