CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Bordeaux it runs 205 km to Bordeaux; allow about 4 h 44 of riding. It goes by way of La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B, Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion and back through La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B.
Bordeaux makes a confident start or finish to a ride, and you feel it the moment you come along the left bank of the Garonne: a curved river front of honey-coloured eighteenth-century facades that runs for kilometres, the Place de la Bourse at its centre, and the shallow Miroir d'eau in front of it reflecting the whole thing back at the sky. The crescent bend of the river gave the city its old nickname, the Port of the Moon.
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Bordeaux is where the day begins. Next is La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B.
The Gironde estuary is wide enough here to feel like an inland sea, and Vauban saw it as the gateway to Bordeaux that needed a lock. His answer, at the end of the seventeenth century, was a triangle of fortifications: the citadel at Blaye on the right bank, Fort Médoc on the left bank at Cussac, and between them Fort Paté, a squat stone tower built on an island in the middle of the river. Together they could cross their fire over the shipping channel, and today they share a place on the UNESCO list of Vauban's works. The citadel of Blaye is the most impressive of the three, a fortified town in its own right, with ramparts, gates and old barracks set high on a bluff above the water.
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La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B comes up 36 km in. Next is Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.
Saint-Émilion is a wine village that looks like a stage set, with steep, cobbled lanes tumbling down a limestone hillside, golden stone houses, and a bell tower rising above the rooftops. The UNESCO listing covers not just the village but its whole jurisdiction, eight parishes of vineyards around it, recognising a landscape in which vines have been cultivated since Roman times. The village grew around the hermitage of Émilion, a Breton monk who lived in a cave here in the eighth century, and its most remarkable monument is the monolithic church, carved out of the rock beneath the bell tower.
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At least 80 km in you reach Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.
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Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, about halfway. Next is back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.
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back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion sits at 144 km, about halfway. Next is back through La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B.
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back through La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B comes up 180 km in. Next is Bordeaux.
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Bordeaux closes the day.
Bordeaux → La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B → Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion → back through La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B is 65 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through La citadelle et le fort Paté et Médoc de B → Bordeaux is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.