Its first edition took place in July 2011, as part of the UCI Europe Tour.

Held entirely around the city, the race normally runs over four days including a prologue on the cobbled streets of the city, and two climbing stages, one on the Transfăgărășan road to Bâlea Lake and a second to the mountain resort of Păltiniș.

The race was originally won by Vladimir Koev but he was later stripped of all results from 2010 and 2011 following a positive test at the 2010 Tour of Romania.

At 500.9 kilometres (311.2 miles),[5] the race was the longest to date, and once more featured the traditional cobbled prologue and stages to Bâlea Lake and Paltanis.

For the first time it was raced over 5 days, and moved forward in the calendar by nearly three weeks.

Adria Mobil later withdrew to be replaced by Southeast Pro Cycling taking the number of pro-continental teams in the race to four.

The 2016 Sibiu Cycling Tour took place between 6 and 10 July having moved forward one week due to the local elections.

The 2017 Sibiu Cycling Tour took place between 5 and 9 July, featuring a traditional parcours of opening prologue, two intermediate and two mountain stages.