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The Collegiate Church of Saint-Barthélemy – Beauvais: Südportal loop from Armentières – Lavoir

The Collegiate Church of Saint-Barthélemy – Beauvais: Südportal loop from Armentières – Lavoir

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The Collegiate Church of Saint-Barthélemy – Beauvais: Südportal loop from Armentières – Lavoir

01:31

36.1km

200m

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Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: July 24, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 18.3 km for 74 m

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8.07 km

Parc Saint Paul

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After about 45km we pass a nice amusement park .... we return here afterwards to eat

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16.6 km

Art Nouveau in Beauvais

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And as a farewell, there are houses in Beauvais that delight with their dynamic Art Nouveau motifs.

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18.2 km

Ancient Gallo-Roman City Wall of Beauvais

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Behind the cathedral you can still find a piece of the city fortifications dating from the 4th century, originally 1370 meters long and with 18 towers. The wall is decorated with cubic stones in the Pastoreaux pattern, which can be found similarly on the remains of the historic Roman city wall around Cologne. In the Middle Ages, the wall served to demarcate the episcopal district.

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18.3 km

Saint Peter's Cathedral of Beauvais

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Its construction is contemporary with that of the cathedrals of Chartres, Reims, Bourges and Amiens ...

It has the highest Gothic choir in the world [1] (48.50 m) under vaulted ceilings. From 1569 to 1573 Beauvais Cathedral was, with its 153-meter tower, the tallest human construction in the world. Its designers had the ambition to make it the largest Gothic cathedral in France ahead of that of Amiens. Victim of two collapses, one in the thirteenth century, the other in the sixteenth century, it remains unfinished today, only the choir and the transept have been built.

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18.3 km

The Collegiate Church of Saint-Barthélemy

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The collegiate church of Saint
Barthelemy, founded in 1037, was secularized during the French Revolution and converted into a residential building. After war damage and demolition, the preserved choir today reminds us of the former building.

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18.4 km

Beauvais: Südportal

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The cathedral beckons. Curious, you want to rush into the interior, but the entrance is worth slowing down. The huge portal rises high into the sky. There are no religious figurines here: one wonders whether this is a financial consequence of the failed construction of the tower of Beauvais or whether the iconoclastic French Revolution has struck. Instead, the tendrils hide many mythical creatures and monsters worth seeing, waiting to be discovered. A somewhat threatening fairy-tale world. Behind them are the enormous carved doors, which are unparalleled with their sculptural Gothic scenes. And finally, Peter himself welcomes you into the church. You know him: an image of the famous statue in St. Peter's Basilica, which illustrates the claim of the cathedral's builders: Amiens was supposed to have the largest church in France, but unfortunately the over-high vaults and the world's highest over-high tower collapsed and inside, massive wooden struts hold up the fragile statics. A Gothic Babel. But the cathedral also holds the record as a torso: the highest vaults are 48.5 metres high.

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18.7 km