Vézelay town gate – Avallon loop from Bazoches
Vézelay town gate – Avallon loop from Bazoches
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Vézelay town gate – Avallon loop from Bazoches
07:45
89.8km
1,720m
Mountain biking
Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: September 3, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted
After 69.7 km for 105 m
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
50.4 km
Vézelay town gate
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51.5 km
Stairs are not rideable !!!
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51.7 km
Gadreau Vézelay — Photographs Drawings
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gadreau-vezelay-photographie.jimdofree.com
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51.9 km
Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in Vézelay
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52.9 km
Cordelle Chapel
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The 17th-century southern porch is the remnant of a Franciscan church.
The place called La Cordelle, at the foot of the Eternal Hill towards Asquins, marks the spot where Saint Bernard preached the second crusade in 1146. The Romanesque chapel was built in the mid-12th century by the abbot of Vézelay in memory of this great historical event. It is also the site of the first Franciscan monastery in France, founded in 1217 around the chapel. Long forgotten, the chapel is now reoccupied by the Franciscans and open to visitors.
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55.9 km
View of Vézelay
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69.3 km
Avallon
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This is composed of a central nave flanked by two side aisles. You will notice the difference in level of almost 3 meters between the portal and the choir. The height of the pillars as well as the cord which surmounts them follow, like the floor of the church, the slope of the rocky spur on which it is built.
The current organ was built in 1850 by the Grenoble maker Nicolas Chambry, in a classical style from the 16th and 18th centuries. At the same time, a new musical universe is emerging for organists and Avallon is joining in...
When you leave, don't forget to go to the apse of the Collegiate Church to admire the Romanesque cornices whose sculpted modillions (sculpted architectural element supporting a cornice) are interesting.
Source: “The Frog Circuit”
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73.5 km
Ford on the Aillon stream🤗
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89.8 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
47.5 km
30.6 km
8.66 km
2.70 km
287 m
154 m
Surfaces
40.6 km
27.4 km
11.3 km
7.22 km
2.92 km
480 m
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