La Parée Beach – Le Girouard loop from Nieul-le-Dolent
La Parée Beach – Le Girouard loop from Nieul-le-Dolent
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La Parée Beach – Le Girouard loop from Nieul-le-Dolent
03:26
82.7km
400m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: August 20, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
346 m
Church with commemoration of victims
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13.2 km
Veni vidi vici
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18.6 km
Attention branch
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43.5 km
La Parée Beach
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Dolmen La Pierre Levée
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The simple dolmen – dolmen is the generic term in France for megalithic structures of all kinds (see: French nomenclature) – with its 2.5 by 2.0 meter, 45 cm thick quartzite capstone resting on three supporting stones, lies on private land. Further stones lay scattered on the remains of the burial mound. The shape, unusual for France, with the capstone resting obliquely, is reminiscent of the Portal Tombs in the British Isles.
In 1901, the remains of three corpses were found.
The dolmen, around which several legends are told, is one of several erratic boulders, menhirs or stone tables named Pierre du Diable (e.g. in Allinges, Arq, Artas, Beuvry, Jambes, Haillot, Lécluse – also in plural as „Les Pierres“) in Belgium, France and Switzerland. Likewise, there are a number of dolmens in France called La Pierre Levée (see Dolmen de la Pierre Levée).
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pierre_Lev%C3%A9e_von_Soubise
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Pierre Levée Castle
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The castle was built in the 18th century by Luc Pezot. A rich and ambitious bourgeois, he was in turn one of the city's great financiers, a shipowner, alderman and receiver of taxes. It was in the 1770s that he decided to build a country house in a place called “La Pierre Levée”.
Inspired by the lines of the Petit Trianon of Versailles, Luc Pezot dared to build a castle of royal stature in order to lead a princely life there while the kingdom was on the verge of bankruptcy and the people in poverty. Luc Pezot dies without an heir. After the revolution, the castle became the property of the Auvynet family, whose descendants still occupy the walls today.
Since the 1940s, the castle has been listed as a historic monument. (wikipedia
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Le Girouard
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And in particular the Château Gaillard (built in the 19th century), a neo-medieval construction desired by Abbé Rouillon. This brick and granite monument was actually his presbytery: it is now the property of the town hall, which has chosen to install the post office and a library there.
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End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
73.8 km
4.38 km
2.39 km
1.97 km
105 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
74.6 km
7.86 km
282 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
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Wednesday 11 November
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