Albi and Tarn Valley bike tour.

Very light cycling tour on old railway line, so almost flat while at 300m alt. being surrounded by hills up to 700m.

• 6 - 9 days light, very light cycling tour along the 1913 railway line and Tarn river.

• Extension with restdays possible in any of the hotels of this cycling package.

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• Self guided cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer for family.

• Suited for families with kids 7 years old.

• Standard ** packages: ** hotel accommodations, some with a pool.

• You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 31^th.

• Many opportunities for canoeing and swimming in Tarn river.

• Start and end in Albi.
• Bike rental, electric bikes can be rented too!
• Bags transfers included.
• Important group discounts for parties (families) from 3 to 8 persons.
• Not included: Lunches. Price of lunches (take away picknicks) : 8 - 11 EURO.
• Not included in basic rate: Bike rental.
• Included: all luggage transfers.
• All hotel wireless internet

When you bike the whole old railway line up to St. Affrique (8-day tour) you will ride past 6 railway bridges and through 10 railway tunnels. For holiday makers who don't like tunnels: you will be able to avoid the longer ones (more than 800m).
Albi is a beautiful, Southern Italian like town along the Tarn river. With its famous architecture, alike Toulouse, from which it is only 75 kms away, its cathedral, of the times of the Cathares and its Museum Toulouse Lautrec it is a perfect start and end for a family cycling holiday. Restaurants and hotels in this trip are of excellent quality.

You will be cycling daily 25 km average through the friendly Valley of the Tarn.
Near Broquiès you can make a canoe trip. In Albi you will stay in a B&B Hotel**.

Albi, UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
On the banks of the Tarn river in south-west France, the old city of Albi reflects the culmination of a medieval architectural and urban ensemble. Today the Old Bridge (Pont-Vieux), the Saint-Salvi quarter and its church are testimony to its initial development (10th -11th centuries). Following the Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics (13th century) it became a powerful episcopal city. Built in a unique southern French Gothic style from local brick in characteristic red and orange colours, the lofty fortified Cathedral (late 13th century) dominates the city, demonstrating the power regained by the Roman Catholic clergy. Alongside the Cathedral is the vast bishop’s Palais de la Berbie, overlooking the river and surrounded by residential quarters that date back to the Middle Ages. The Episcopal City of Albi forms a coherent and homogeneous ensemble of monuments and quarters that has remained largely unchanged over the centuries.

Click here for some pictures of your tour in Tarn Valley

You can book this cycling tour in Tarn valley as active package, light or family package or  as a very light package. Click on the links above for all details on the other two packages.

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