Albi - Millau - Albi  cycling tour.

"Active" cycling tour through South Aveyron in Midi Pyrénées along three rivers : Tarn, Sorgues and Dourbie and its magnificent canyon. Hilly bike-tour on the hills and slopes of the valleys from average 300 alt. up to average 700m.

• 6 - 11 days cycling tours. Start and finish in Albi.

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• Optional:  extra nights in any of the hotels of the package for a rest-day or an extra cycling day.
• Important group discounts for parties of  3 persons to 8 persons.

• Self guided cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer for family and kids 14 years old.

• "Plus" package,   ** and  *** hotels.
  

• You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 31^th.

• Many opportunities for canoeing and swimming in Tarn river.

• Start and end in Albi.
• Bags transfers included.
• Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 12 EURO.
• Not included in basic rate: Bike rental.
• Included: all luggage transfers.

On your way to St.Sernin-sur-Rance you will ride past 2 railway bridges and through 4  railway tunnels. For holiday makers who don't like tunnels: you will be able to avoid the longer ones (more than 800m).
Your start is in Albi, a beautiful, Southern Italian like town along the Tarn river.

With its famous architecture, alike Toulouse, from which it is only 75 kms away, its cathedral, of the times of the Cathares and its Museum Toulouse Lautrec it is a perfect start and end for a light or active cycling holiday and also a perfect family trip.

Albi is a beautiful, Southern Italian like town along the Tarn river. With its famous architecture, alike Toulouse, from which it is only 75 kms away, its cathedral, of the times of the Cathares and its Museum Toulouse Lautrec it is a perfect start and end for a family cycling holiday. Restaurants and hotels in this trip are of excellent quality.

You will be cycling daily 25 km average through the friendly Valley of the Tarn.
Near Broquiès you can make a canoe trip. In Albi you will stay in a B&B Hotel**.

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. Today 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.

 Restaurants and hotels in this trip are of excellent quality.
On your way from Creissels you will ride under and above the viaduc de Millau.

You will be cycling daily 50-60 km average.

You can also book a superior version of this tour. Click here for all details.

You trip will be in the three main areas of Tarn basin: Tarn valley, Pays de Roquefort and part of the Gorges and Causses, the canyons of the limestone plateau, most of all in Aveyron department. Click here for a virtual visit of Aveyron.

 Pictures of Canyons, Gorges and Causses

 Pictures of Pays de Roquefort.

 Pictures of Tarn Valley.

• Included: all luggage transfer

• Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 13 EURO.

• Not included in basic rate: Bike rental