Cocherelle Dolmen – Avre Aqueduct loop from Villemeux-sur-Eure

Cocherelle Dolmen – Avre Aqueduct loop from Villemeux-sur-Eure

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Cocherelle Dolmen – Avre Aqueduct loop from Villemeux-sur-Eure

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59.3km

200m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 27, 2026

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Centre Nautique du Pays Drouais – Mézières-Écluzelles Lake

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The Pays Drouais Nautical Center is a nautical base located on the Mézières-Ecluzelles stretch of water. You can practice sailing, canoeing, mountain biking or even motorboating. The base offers walks, rentals, and training for all these disciplines and also issues certain boat licenses.

More info here: centrenautiquedupaysdrouais.fr

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7.14 km

Saint-Martin Church

Highlight • Religious Site

The construction could date back to the beginning of the 12th century. The nave ends with a chancel with a four-sided apse. A bell tower outside the work is located against the west wall. A seigneurial chapel was built to the north of the chancel. The study of the framework has made it possible to determine several construction phases: 1117-1190, 1274, 1487-1520. The interior walls retain a painted historiated decoration on the back of the west portal, probably representing a dance of death, which could date back to the 1500s. The large funeral chapel built between 1577 and 1585 probably goes back to the architect Métezeau. Its decoration is representative of the end of Mannerism and the Henri IV style. The stained glass windows were restored by the master glassmaker Raphaël Lardeur and were installed in 1947. Lardeur also created the mosaic Stations of the Cross.

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30.9 km

Church of Notre-Dame de Boissy-en-Drouais

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The whole construction is homogeneous: in Vernon limestone, it is punctuated by buttresses using blocks of sandstone and grison in the lower part. The church is largely lit by the four bays with flamboyant tracery that have been pierced to the north and south.

The building is covered with a rafter frame forming entirely paneled trusses, whose stencil decoration was taken up in the 19th century by painting companies from Dreux. But it is probably the countryside of the early 16th century that attracts attention. Indeed, on the west facade has been grafted a Renaissance portal, in soft limestone, consisting of two pilasters decorated with candelabras with capitals supporting an entablature, above the arched portal, finely chiseled with a floral scroll. The whole is surmounted by a niche with a canopy framed by two fish and two balusters, and crowned by a motif similar to a dormer window. This remarkable element from the first decade of the 16th century reflects the first introductions of the Renaissance style in religious architecture. We also think of the portal of the church of Pierres sur la vallée de l'Eure.

The interior of the church reflects through its furnishings the large orders made from 1759 to renew the decor of rural parish churches. We note in particular the large monumental altarpiece of the choir, but also the work bench and especially the pulpit, in wood and plaster, installed in 1759, by implanting an access staircase in the rear wall. This set of furnishings accompanies the painted decors of the 19th century, whether it be the false-appliance of the walls or the stenciled decoration of the paneled vault.

The work campaign that has just ended required two functional phases: the first was devoted to sanitation work, roofing of the nave and bell tower, restoration of the sculptures (west portal), and stained glass windows; the second focused on the exterior coatings, the pillars of the bell tower belfry, lighting, cleaning of the painted vault and the conservation treatment of the furniture. This major project led by chief architect Régis Martin was supported by the Sauvegarde de l’Art français with a donation of €6,000 in 2017.

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43.5 km

Cocherelle Dolmen

Highlight • Natural Monument

a small technical passage when returning to the forest. you have to be in the right gear when climbing. stopping on the hill is a little complicated for someone who is taking up the discipline. itinerary not recommended during hunting parties.

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45.0 km

Avre Aqueduct

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The aqueduct of the Avre is one of the works that supplies the city of Paris with drinking water. Inaugurated in 1893, it transports 80 million liters per day from the Drouais in Eure-et-Loir. The Avre aqueduct is part of the complex drinking water supply system in the capital.

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59.0 km

Saint-Maurice Church

Highlight • Religious Site

Most of the construction dates from the 15th and 16th centuries but parts of the choir date back to the 11th century.

The 16th century western façade is very well preserved, as is the paneled framework of the choir.

The building is classified as a historic monument in 190

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59.3 km