35,2km bike tour from L'Etoile Guesthouse
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35,2km bike tour from L'Etoile Guesthouse |
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From L'Étoile, head towards the center of the village, then take the direction of Villefort straight ahead. Continue until the Pradillou roundabout, turn right, and immediately left onto the D573 via Fagoux, Sallèles, and Tressols, then Saint Laurent-les-Bains. Follow the D4 for 4 km via the Ceytrou Bridge. Leave the D4 at the steep ascent at a sharp turn and take the small road to the right until Hubac, then join the D573 to Nicoulaud. Turn left and join the D151 just before Alzons. Climb the D151 to Pradillou and La Bastide.
20.5 km - 25 km - 27.7 km - 30 km - 35.2 km - 36 km - 37 km - 41.5 km - 48.4 km - 57.5 km - 59.4 km - 69 km - 70 km - 76.8 km - 77 km - 81 km - 90 km - 95.7 km
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Distance: 35.2 km. Maximum altitude: 1051 m. Minimum altitude: 624 m. Cumulative elevation: 789 m.
IGN Maps: Largentière la Bastide-Puylaurent Vivarais Cévenol (2838OT).
In this province, Haut-Vivarais and Bas-Vivarais share the space, the former rising in the north, the latter extending in the south. The Vivarais mountains, stone sentinels of the eastern border of the Massif Central. The tower of Saint Laurent les Bains, a stone sentinel, stands proudly on a rocky spur overlooking the village. Built in the 9th century, it has withstood the ages, its six floors preserved by the villagers as a sanctuary. Perched on the heights of the Borne valley, the village is crowned by the granite majesty of the Trois-Seigneurs, whose slopes descend to the roofs below by more than one hundred meters, watching over the souls beneath. The fame of the thermal resort of Saint-Laurent-les-Bains dates back to Roman times, its waters at 53° celebrated for their therapeutic virtues. The Source de Saint-Laurent, born from the volcanic depths of the earth, has been praised since the Middle Ages for its benefits. Treatments such as weightless mud baths, thermal pool showers, poultices, and vaporarium sessions are offered in the intimacy of three thermal establishments, where the waters flow through underground channels to provide healing and comfort to the many annual visitors.
Once, dominating the high mountains of these cold regions, there were four towers: those of Loubaresse, Borne, Saint-Laurent-les-Bains, and Luc, on the tops of which, when the night was dark, the fires of a huge bonfire would shine, bright beacons that lit the countryside from afar and served as signals during those disastrous and frequent feudal wars from lord to lord. Of these four towers, one has already disappeared. Located 1242 meters above sea level, on the extinguished and filled mouth of one of the oldest volcanoes of Vivarais, this tower, seen from afar, created such a picturesque and striking effect in the landscape, and had been respected by time. But less than five years ago, a man, not fond of old ruins, had it demolished and razed to the ground to use the materials for the reconstruction of the parish church of Loubaresse. From Chambons to Loubaresse, a village composed exclusively of muleteers, robust and hardy mountain folk who have the courage and skill, though less the grace and coquette elegance of Andalusian muleteers; and from Loubaresse to the Chat-del-Bos, where the road leads to Saint-Laurent-les-Bains, which is only a league away, every well-trodden path fades. Before you lies only meadows and fields, through which beasts and people wander off on adventures.
Former holiday hotel with a garden along the Allier, L'Etoile Guest House is located in La Bastide-Puylaurent between Lozere, Ardeche, and the Cevennes in the mountains of Southern France. At the crossroads of GR®7, GR®70 Stevenson Path, GR®72, GR®700 Regordane Way, GR®470 Allier River springs and gorges, GRP® Cevenol, Ardechoise Mountains, Margeride. Numerous loop trails for hiking and one-day biking excursions. Ideal for a relaxing and hiking getaway.
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