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Decize – Decize loop from Saint-Léger-des-Vignes

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Road cycling routes

France

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Nevers

Saint-Léger-Des-Vignes

Decize – Decize loop from Saint-Léger-des-Vignes

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riders

Decize – Decize loop from Saint-Léger-des-Vignes

01:46

41.8km

250m

Road cycling

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: June 18, 2026

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2.85 km

Decize

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Nice little place for a break

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3.22 km

Place de la Tour de l'Horloge

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Beautiful tower in the city center

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3.30 km

Decize

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Decize, located at the confluence of the Aron and Loire rivers, is a very pleasant small town of approximately 5,000 inhabitants. It belongs to the Nièvre department.

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3.57 km

The 152nd RI bridge in Decize is a two-lane road bridge, a reinforced concrete bridge, built in an arch from 1956 to 1960. Its name, 152nd RI in memory of the resistance against the Germans, a detachment of the 152nd Infantry Regiment, commanded by Captain Vincent, during the defense of the Loire bridges, at Decize.

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4.03 km

Bridge Over the Loire in Decize

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Small bridge near Decize

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25.5 km

Saint Germain Church

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Church of Chassenay is a parish church of Saint Germain, it was built in the Romanesque period of the 12th century, it was largely rebuilt in the 16th century, as certain construction details of the eastern part of the building suggest. , which were taken up when the nave was built.

On a funeral liter an escutcheon bears a chevron and a leader charged with three stars of Favre de Dardagny, a former infantry captain in the Querci regiment.

The church is rectangular in plan, its bell tower porch is square, it is pierced on its four sides with triple bays, its roof as well as that of the church are covered with small flat terracotta tiles from the region.

Its tympanum is remarkable, it represents Saint Luke, who is lying down looking at a tablet on which it is inscribed: “Visim est et mihi..” a quote taken from the gospel of Saint Luke.

Georges Théodore Renaud was born in 1875 in Nièvre. Student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1897 to 1903.

He worked in Paris, where he married in 1904, then he settled in Nevers. He built churches, presbyteries, castles, buildings, villas and war memorials.

Luke the Evangelist or Saint Luke is a character about whom little is known, but who wrote part of the New Testament.

Christian tradition considers him to be the author of the gospel that bears his name, as well as the Acts of the Apostles.

In Nièvre, his best-known work is the Notre-Dame-de-Bethléem church in Clamecy, consecrated in 1927.

He also carried out work in the churches of Brinon-sur-Beuvron, Moraches, Neuvy-sur-Loire, Saint Germain Chassenay, Saint-Honoré-les-Bains and Saint-Ouen-sur-Loire

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