Very Light cycling tours in Pays de Roquefort:  B06

Very Light cycling tours in Gorges and Causses:  B04 light

Very Light cycling tours in Tarn Valley:  B00   

Light cycling tours in Tarn Valley   B06    -      B01    -    B08sup

Light cycling tours in Gorges and Causses:   B04 light    -     B01     -     B10     -     B11

Light cycling tours in Pays de Roquefort:   B06     B01

Moderate cycling tours in Tarn Valley   B06    -    B10    -    B01    -   

Moderate cycling tours in Pays de Roquefort:   B02    -    B10    -    B01    -    B03    -    B11    -    B08Moderate

Moderate cycling tours in Gorges and Causses:   B04    -     B10     -    B03    -    B11    -    B12    -    B20

All of these tours go through the three main areas of South Aveyron: Tarn valley, Pays de Roquefort and part of the Gorges and Causses, the canyons of the limestone plateau.

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The very light biking tour are designed for family with children from 10 on,who like biking in a hilly to mountainous environment but at the same time avoid climbing and long distances. You will be in the Tarn Valley and the Canyons de la Dourbie. You will stay in some hotels with swimming pools and there will be enough time for children to have fun, swimming in the river or do a canoe trip.
You will be cycling through 3 river valleys: Tarn, Dourbie (Canyons) and Sorgues.

Tarn Valley at Broquiès

You will visit a 10-12th century Templars city: La Couvertoiradeanda archetypical 9th - 13th century castle in Brousse-le-Château. You will see a splendid and ever changing scenery with hilly mountains, canyons, plateaus, villages and small towns.

Some tours start in Albi, the city of the famous painter of Moulin Rouge and Aristide Bruant, Toulouse Lautrec, is moreover worth your visit because of a stonebrick Cathedraland its nice old town centre.
Via the spectacular Gorges de la Dourbie and a Templars village you'll pass the Valley of the Sorgues in the Pays de Roquefort and St. Affrique and come back in Albi.

Tarn valley.

Hilly South of Aveyron

When biking the whole old railway line from Albi up to St. Affrique (8-day tour) you will bike over 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 100m).

On your way to and from Millau you will ride under and above the viaduc de Millau.

More pictures of Tarn Valley and Pays de Roquefort

Gorges du Tarn

Millau viaduct
Grand Site Midi-Pyrénées