Tour Code BGN8C

2021

North & Chablis 8 days / 7 nights Burgundy is a land of great art and good living, pastoral and peaceful. During the cycling trip you will discover great abbeys, elegant châteaux, medieval half-timbered villages and fortified towns. The vineyards of Chablis and the Auxerrois will accompany you, tastings are planned and the fine food will round off your days. This itinerary reveals northern Burgundy’s main treasures.

Self – Guided Cycling Tour Day 1 Arrival to Day 5 – Vézelay 22 km 8 days / 7 nights

The cycling continues today through some Auxerre, city of Art and History that has Grade: of Burgundy’s finest landscapes, conserved an exceptional architectural Slightly hilly routs without long climbs. culminating in a stop in Vézelay and its heritage. Its cathedral, a model of gothic Asphalted side routs. Cycling path along the Sainte-Madeleine Basilica, a Romanesque Canal du Nivernais. elegance, the St Germain Abbey, a nearly art masterpiece listed as UNESCO world intact monastic complex with crypts dating heritage. During the middle Ages, Vézelay back to the 9 th Century containing one of was a major pilgrimage site and a special the oldest mural paintings discovered in Arrival: daily 13.03. – 31.10.2021 halt on the way to Compostella. Its , not to mention a charming city Basilica dominates the small mediaeval centre with great boutiques. Price per person town and its fortifications. Euro

Day 2 Auxerre – Montigny la Resle Day 6 Vézelay – Escolives-Ste-Camille 29 km 41 km Double Room B&B 829,00 Adjustment of hired bikes. You begin your Double Room HB 1119,00 Starting by a climb to reach the cycle through the fields and will stop in Extra night in Auxerre B&B 80,00 valley, the itinerary will then follow it and where you discover the the canal du Nivernais all day. You will Cistercian Abbey, the largest and one of come across beautiful sites such as the most beautiful Cistercian churches Single Room B&B 1176,00 Châtel-Censoir, the Saussois cliffs, and remaining in France. Single Room HB 1466,00 finish in Escolives. Extra night in Auxerre B&B 142,00

Day 3 Montigny – Chablis – Noyers

40 km Day 7 Escolives-Ste-Camille – Auxerre Bike Rental

Nice day cycling in the Chablis vineyards 33 km 21-Gear-Tourbike 95,00 E-Bike 250 € Deposit 190,00 via Ligny-le-Châtel with its Renaissance Water dominates the day, for all around church. After visiting Chablis and a wine you are some of the greatest rivers of tasting, the itinerary follows the France. In fact, Burgundy has been called Service included: valley through beautiful villages of the the water table of France. All the mighty southern Chablis vineyards to the rivers are interconnected by a marvellous ✓ 7 nights in 2/3* star hotels/ medieval town of Noyers with its Naïf Art canal system. You are cycling beside the Chambres d’Hotes in room with museum. Noyers has preserved water surrounded by nature before leaving private facilities fortifications and half-timbered houses. It’s its side to go through the lovely Auxerre ✓ Daily breakfast one of the hundred most beautiful villages vineyard villages: , Saint-Bris-le- ✓ 4-course dinner (Option) of France! Vineux, and Bailly. In the caves de Bailly ✓ Personal welcome meeting

you will taste the famous Crémant de luggage transfer from hotel to hotel Day 4 Noyers -sur-Serein – Avallon ✓ Bourgogne before carrying on to Auxerre. ✓ 1 winetasting in Chablis 46 km ✓ 1 tasting of Crémant de Bourgogne Today you cycle across the superb “terre Day 8 in Bailly plaine” plate au and Avallon landscapes. ✓ Rout book, maps and information You will pass by the medieval hamlet of C'est la vie - your biking holiday in material Burgundy is finished. After having a last Montréal before reaching Avallon, a ✓ 24 h Service Hotline beautiful ancient town. breakfast you have to say goodbye to this ✓ GPS-Tacks on demand charming region in France!

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