It consisted of 18 stages covering a total of 3,014 km (1,873 mi).

Basque nationalist ETA terrorists detonated a bomb along the course on stage 15, causing that day's racing to be annulled.

[1][2] The race was won by Felice Gimondi of the Salvarani cycling team.

With this win in the 1968 Vuelta a España, the 1967 Giro d'Italia and the 1965 Tour de France, Gimondi became the second cyclist after Jacques Anquetil to win all three grand tours in his career.

[3] Defending champion Jan Janssen won the points competition and 1966 champion Francisco Gabica won the mountains classification.