The Olympic torch will start its journey on May 19

The Olympic torch will tour the UK landmarks including Loch Ness, when you start your tour of the country on May 19, before lighting the cauldron July 27 London Olympic Stadium at the opening of the Games 2012.

British officials today unveiled the ten-week course will make the torch will be carried by some 8,000 person s arrive from Greece on May 19 at Land's End, on the southwestern tip of England.

1018 will pass places all over the UK and will be taken, as well as on foot, by various methods of transport such as boats, bicycles, tram and train , according to the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games in London (LOCOG) , to be held between July 27 and August 12, 2012.

After arriving in Land's End, the torch will travel to the county of Devon, southwest English, and then move to the English city of Bristol before entering South Wales. On May 26 will be in the medieval castle of Caerphilly (Wales) and three days later, the torch will be carried by train to Mount Snowdon (Wales), according to details released today.

On May 31, come to Cheshire (northwest English), more specifically to the Jodrell Bank observatory, while the June 2 will cross the Irish Sea by boat to the so-called Giant Causeway, a coastal area of ​​Antrim, Northern Ireland . On June 8 the torch will go to Scotland, where he will tour the Loch Ness and then start your journey south past the monument called the Angel of the North, in Gateshead, northeast England, before coming to Leeds (English center) the June 25.

Among other places of England, the bearers of the Olympic torch will arrive at the ruins of Stonehenge on July 12 and July 20 will already be in the Tower of London, his first stop in the capital that will host the Olympic Games. From there, the Olympic flame will pass for a week in various places in London before culminating in the palace of Hampton Court (south London) where it will be taken to the Olympic Stadium on July 27 for the opening ceremony.

According to figures released today, 95 percent of the British population will at some point along the route about 16 miles from the Olympic flame . LOCOG Chairman Sebastian Coe, said the torch will pass through every corner of the UK and said that everyone "is invited to welcome plan and find out where they can go to participate in this historic occasion."

"Fifty percent of the torchbearers will be aged between 12 and 24. We will concentrate on young people, is a torch of youth" , said Coe. For its part, the British Minister of Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, Jeremy Hunt, said the arrival of the Olympic flame to the United Kingdom in May 2012 will mark the countdown to the "greatest sporting event."

As is tradition, the torch will be lit in Olympia, Greece, in May 2012 where it will be airlifted to the UK.