I would imagine that to be the Tour de France, the first of the 3 Grand Tours, first run in 1903
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The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
In Europe, mostly in France.
The world's best known cycling race is probably Le Tour de France, which is held in France, which is a country in Europe.
Jericho, the world's oldest known city, developed on the Jordan River.
There are two cities which claim to be the oldest in existence. These are the city of Damascus and Varanasi.
Damascus, Syria having first been settled in the 2nd Millennium BC.
Ferns are the worlds oldest type of plant.A:`Methuselah` is the oldest known living tree and non-clonal organism in the world and is estimated to be 4,842 years old as of 2011. Methuselah is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California.
Epic of Gilgamesh from Babylon, dated back to the 7th Century BC.
Epic of Gilgamesh from Babylon, dated back to the 7th Century BC.
Though leprosy is categorized in the Guiness Book of World Records as the worlds oldest disease, This fast is in fact false.The Worlds oldest known disease which is still very much rampant across the world, Is arthritis. Archeologists have found dinosaur bones that showed moderate to severe joint damage due to arthritis. Thus making Arthritis the worlds oldest disease.Leprosy and Tuberculosis are the believed to be the next two disease that have a very long history, but not as far back as arthritis. Which remains, to this day, incurable, and the worlds most painful, crippling disease known to man.
The Great Sphinx is the oldest known monumental structure.
Albion is the oldest known name for the island of Great Britain.