Les rochers du Saussois & la Route Forestiere du Fay — loop in the Parc naturel régional du Morvan from Avallon

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Les rochers du Saussois & la Route Forestiere du Fay — loop in the Parc naturel régional du Morvan from Avallon

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Les rochers du Saussois & la Route Forestiere du Fay — loop in the Parc naturel régional du Morvan from Avallon

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80.1km

1,020m

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Hard road ride. Very 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 13, 2024

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Avallon

Highlight • Settlement

Now enter the church covered by ribbed vaults whose particularity is to end in the shape of a dome
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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15.8 km

Pierre-Perthuis Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Vézelay is a wonderful town on a hill. A center for pilgrims.

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19.3 km

Notre-Dame Church of Saint-Père

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You drive through the winding alleys of the picturesque village of Saint-Père in the valley before Vézelay, and then the view opens up to this village church! An incredible porch in front of a truly beautiful late Gothic church. Wikipedia writes:
The church Église Notre-Dame de Saint-Père is built in the Burgundian Flamboyant style and is considered a masterpiece of this stylistic phase of the late Gothic period. The three-nave church with its 50-meter-high bell tower was built in the 13th century and has been a listed historical monument since 1840. The two chapels were added in the 14th/15th centuries, and the narthex in the 15th century. The iconography of the church is not very revealing, but inside you can find a rather worn portrait of a miser, who is holding onto his money bag, which hangs around his neck. He is flanked on the left and right by dragons, which seem to be biting off his ears. This symbol can be interpreted in a double sense: The man pretends to be deaf, although he has the means to help (egoism), or the man is so fixated on his possessions that he forgets to protect himself – to do something good for himself (greed as an obsessive disorder). The open narthex is the most richly decorated. For more than two centuries, sculptors were able to realize their ideas here and stonemasons could demonstrate their artistic craftsmanship. Upon entering the covered narthex, you see two statuettes on the right in half-relief, which are said to depict Girart de Roussillon and his wife Berthe, or his daughter Eve. They are considered the founders of the former abbey of Saint-Père.
Probably the church (formerly an abbey) served as the final stop for pilgrims on their way to the tomb of St. Mary Magdalene in Vézelay.

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