Cycling Holiday from Rodez:

• 6 to 10 days (arrival day and last day (with breakfast) included) self guided cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer.
   

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• Plus package with ** and ***/** hotels and 1 or 2 Chambres d'hôtes de charme (***).
• Dinners (except in Rodez, Albi and Villefranche de Rouergue) included (entrée, main course, cheese, dessert), beverages not included.
• Short to medium lenght; light hilly stages in rolling coutryside with lots of medieval towns.
• You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 31^th.
• You can fly into Rodez with Ryanair from London, Dublin and Brussels-Charleroi.
• Bike rental possible, electric bikes too!

Unlike Albi, Rodez needs to be discovered. Albi, UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble.

Rodez has a magnificent Cathedral too!

 
This cycling holiday starts on the quiet roads of the Lévezou plateau South of Rodez.

You then head South through rolling countryside, along some big lakes towards the valley of the Tarn. Through the valley with some very nice Medieval towns you'll go to Albi.

In Albi the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries). Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red and orange colours, the lofty fortified Cathedral (late 13th century) dominates the city, demonstrating the power regained by the Roman Catholic clergy. Alongside the Cathedral is the vast bishop’s Palais de la Berbie, overlooking the river and surrounded by residential quarters that date back to the Middle Ages. The Episcopal City of Albi forms a coherent and homogeneous ensemble of monuments and quarters that has remained largely unchanged over the centuries. leaving Albi in Nortyhern direction you will visit some wonderfully preserved fortified villages (Bastides), the most famous of which is hill-top Cordes-sur-Ciel. These walled settlements, with grid-pattern streets and handsome squares, are now beautiful reminders of the great conflicts of the Middle Ages. More to North you will head to Najac the famous fortress in Aveyron and to Villefranche-de-Rouergue in the 8-, 9- and 10-days tours.

Click here to see some pictures of your cycling tour in Tarn, Albi & Bastides

Active level tour :  max 60 km a day.
Tours of  7 - 10 days  (packages with ** and some *** hotels) and optional extensions in any of the regular hotels of this tour.

 

Accommodations: *** and ** hotels, one Chambre d'hôtes de Charme with equal standard.
 ** B&B hotel in Albi. The hotels chosen for this tour are small nicely restored mansions in medieval village of which 4 are labeled l'un des plus beau villages de France: one of the 100 nicest villages of France.  

From Albi to Rodez: Winding river valleys, empty roads with just the occasional tractor.  Rolling countryside, with half-timbered houses and the walled 'Bastides' (Najac and Villefranche de Rouergue) that go back to the time of the Plantagenet Kings. Easy to escape down meandering  back roads and not see a soul for hours.
You will stay a night in *** hotel  in Puycelsi ("L'un des plus beau villages de France"), you will visit Bruniquel with its two castles and St. Antonin Noble Val on your way to Cordes where you stay for one night in the tower and highest point of Cathars city Cordes sur Ciel, an unforgettable place to stay. In this small hotel you can buy Le Jacquard Français. . Najac ("L'un des plus beau villages de France"). Villefranche-de-Rouergue will be your destination after the famous Najac (Another "L'un des plus beau villages de France").

 

Brick Cathedral of Albi	Cordes-sur-Ciel

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Click here to see some pictures of your cycling tour in Tarn, Albi & Bastides