Why this ride
104 km from Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac to Rouffignac-Saint-Cernin-de-Reilhac, about 2 h 07 of riding. It goes by way of Lascaux, Le Cap Blanc and back through Lascaux.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Cro de Granville and Le Cap Blanc
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 104 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 07
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Dordogne Valley Route
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 25 km this is Dordogne Valley Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 25 km
- Named road
- Dordogne Valley Route
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Cro de Granville
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.
Read the complete Cro de Granville write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Cro de Granville is where the day begins. Next is Lascaux.
2. Lascaux
On 12 September 1940, a dog vanished down a hole above the Vézère valley, and the four teenagers who went after it found the way into one of the great finds in the history of art. The cave of Lascaux, near the town of Montignac, holds hundreds of paintings and engravings of horses, bulls, stags and ibex, some of them several metres long, made by Palaeolithic people around seventeen thousand years ago. The animals are drawn with astonishing confidence, in red, yellow and black pigments, and they seem to gallop across the curved walls of the chambers. It was opened to the public after the Second World War, and for fifteen years, thousands of visitors a year came to see it.
Read the complete Lascaux write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Lascaux comes up about 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Le Cap Blanc.
3. Le Cap Blanc
Planning note
about 52 km into the recorded legs you reach Le Cap Blanc. Next is back through Lascaux.
4. back through Lascaux
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lascaux write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Lascaux, late in the day. Next is Cro de Granville.
5. Cro de Granville
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Cro de Granville write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Cro de Granville. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Cro de Granville to Lascaux
Cro de Granville → Lascaux is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Lascaux to Le Cap Blanc
Lascaux → Le Cap Blanc is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Le Cap Blanc to back through Lascaux
Le Cap Blanc → back through Lascaux is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Lascaux to Cro de Granville
back through Lascaux → Cro de Granville is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
More motorcycle rides nearby
- Dordogne and Vezere Valleys · 26 km
- Dordogne Valley Route · 85 km
- Dordogne Valley Route from Sarlat-la-Canéda · 78 km
- Cro de Granville and Bordeaux · 343 km