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Bike tour Southern Massif

• 6 - 9 days; extension possible with extra, consecutive nights in any of the regular hotels of this trip.
   

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• Self guided active or sporting cycling hotel-tour with baggage transfer.
• Superior *** and ** hotel packages  starting in Albi.
• Most hotels with a pool.
• You can start this tour any day of the week between March 15^th and October 31^th.
• Bags transfers included.
• Lunches not included.
• Not included in basic rate: Bike rental.
• Important group discounts for parties of  3 persons to 8 persons.
   
• A luxury package (only *** and **** hotels)  is also available, click here.
• You can start this tour also from Millau (Château de Creissels)
  

Trip trip will bring you into the three main areas of Tarn basin: Tarn valley, Pays de Roquefort and the Gorges and Causses, the canyons of the limestone plateau, most of the trip being in Aveyron department. Click here for a virtual visit of Aveyron.

The itinerary:
Start and end in Albi. Depending on the lenght of your trip you will cycle in Tarn valley or all the way from Albi through the valley to the gorges (canyons) du Tarn before going back through Tarn valley to Albi.

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.
Albi, UNESCO World Heritage Centre since 2010.
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.

Cycling tour in Midi-Pyrénées in Tarn and Sud-Averyon along the river Tarn.
You'll be cycling in meandering river valleys, empty roads with just the occasional shepherd. Rolling countryside, with natural stone built houses and farms. Easy and moderate (sporting if you want) cycling roads in mountainous region up to 800m altitude.

Gorgeous Roquefort dishes,  plus the menu's du terroir, finest meals.
You will stay in the best hotels in these two departments of the Southern Central Massif Mountains.  In Millau you'll bike under and above (not over) the newly built Millau - 432m high - Viaduct.  

Gorgeous Roquefort dishes,  plus the menu's du terroir, finest meals.
You will stay in *** and **** hotels in these two departments of the Southern Central Massif Mountains.  In Millau you'll pass the newly built Millau  432m high  Viaduct.  

In this superior package you start and finish in a  B&B **** hotel in centre of old Albi near the cathedral. In all other stages dinner will be included as well.

 

More info on the scenery you'll be cycling in.
 
 

Pictures of your trip in Tarn Valley

Pictures of your trip in Canyons, Gorges and Causses area