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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343 km from Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac to Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac, about 4 h 54 of riding. On the way it passes Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, Bordeaux and back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion. The line favours views over speed.
The Cro de Granville is a rock shelter in the Dordogne, near Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin, in the part of south-west France where the limestone plateaus are riddled with caves, shelters and overhangs and where early humans lived and painted for tens of thousands of years.
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Cro de Granville is where the day begins. 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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Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion comes up about 130 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bordeaux.
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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about 173 km into the recorded legs you reach Bordeaux. Next is back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion write-up.
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back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion, late in the day. Next is Cro de Granville.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cro de Granville write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Cro de Granville. That is the ride.
Cro de Granville → Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion → Bordeaux is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bordeaux → back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jurisdiction of Saint-Emilion → Cro de Granville is 130 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.