Albi - Millau - Albi cycling tour.

Gorges du Tarn frm Hourtous

These "superior " B10 packages differ from the "Luxury"B10 packages only in the space and comfort of the rooms of the luxury packages, the luxury packages being the top.

On your way to St. Affrique you 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 at Tarn River.

Albi Market

With its famous architecture, alike Toulouse, from which it is only 75 kms away, Albi and its cathedral, of the times of the Cathar and its Museum Toulouse Lautrec it is a perfect start and end for an Moderate cycling holiday.

You will be cycling daily 60 to 88km km average through the friendly Valley of the Tarn and the Gorges du Tarn.
At many places you can make a canoe trip. In Albi you will stay in a Hotel **/***.In the **** hotels we don't included diner, so you are free to decide for yourself.

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 colors, the lofty fortified Cathedral (late 13th century) dominates the city, demonstrating the power regained by the Roman Catholic clergy.

Tarn valley

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 from Creissels you will go under the Viaduc de Millau and see this beautiful architectural creation from above.
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, in Southern Aveyron department.

Click here for a virtual visit of Aveyron .

Pictures of Canyons, Gorges and Causses

Pictures of Pays de Roquefort.