CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Sains-en-Gohelle it runs 70 km to Sains-en-Gohelle; allow about 1 h 09 of riding. It goes by way of Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de, Ensemble minier de la fosse Cornuault and back through Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de.
Sains-en-Gohelle is a former coal town in the heart of the Nord-Pas de Calais mining basin, and Cité n°10 is one of its old mining estates, rows of brick houses built for miners and their families around a pithead. The basin, which stretches about 120 kilometres from the Belgian border towards the west, was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2012, and the cités, the slag heaps and the headframes are its most visible remains.
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Cité n°10 is where the day begins. Next is Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de.
On the morning of 10 March 1906, an explosion tore through the galleries of the Courrières mining company, killing well over a thousand miners. It remains the worst mining disaster in European history. Most of the victims came from the towns of Méricourt, Sallaumines and Billy-Montigny, and many were buried in a mass grave nearby. Twenty days after the explosion, thirteen survivors emerged from the darkness, having found their way through the ruined galleries, and their story became famous across Europe. The memorials in and around Sallaumines honour the dead and the rescuers, including German miners from Westphalia who came to help.
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Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ensemble minier de la fosse Cornuault.
The flat country between Douai and Lens does not look like much from a motorway, but it holds one of the great industrial landscapes of Europe. For more than two centuries coal was dug from under these fields, and the mining basin of the Nord-Pas de Calais was listed by UNESCO in 2012 as an evolving cultural landscape of pits, slag heaps, railway lines and workers' housing. The Fosse Cornuault at Évin-Malmaison is one piece of that vast mosaic, a former colliery site with its associated buildings, set among the brick villages of the eastern part of the basin.
Read the complete Ensemble minier de la fosse Cornuault write-up.
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about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Ensemble minier de la fosse Cornuault. Next is back through Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de, late in the day. Next is Cité n°10.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cité n°10 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cité n°10. That is the ride.
Cité n°10 → Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de → Ensemble minier de la fosse Cornuault is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Ensemble minier de la fosse Cornuault → back through Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Monument commémoratif de la Catastrophe de → Cité n°10 is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.