Albi - Millau - Albi cycling tour in South of France

Roquefort cheese caves in this mountain

Light to Moderate cycling tour through Tarn basin and Parc des Grands Causses in South Aveyron (Midi Pyrénées) along three rivers : Tarn, Sorgues and Dourbie and its magnificent canyon. Hilly bike tour on the hills (slopes of the valleys) from average 300 alt. up to average 700m.

On your way to Millauyou will bike over 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 architecture alike Toulouse, from which it is only 75 kms away, with its cathedral, of the times of the Cathar and its Museum Toulouse Lautrec, Albi, a beautiful, Southern Italian like town along the Tarn river. is a perfect start and end for an Moderate cycling holiday and also a perfect family trip.

Albi Market

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.

On your way to Millau you will ride under and above the viaduc de Millau.

You will be cycling daily 50 to 60 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 **.

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.