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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Avallon
Saint-Père

Bridge over the Cure – La Cure loop from Saint-Père

Moderate

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Bridge over the Cure – La Cure loop from Saint-Père

01:22

15.0km

240m

Cycling

Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: May 14, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 14.7 km for 82 m

Waypoints

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Parking

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7.38 km

Pierre-Perthuis Bridge

Highlight • Bridge

Vézelay is a wonderful town on a hill. A center for pilgrims.

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7.66 km

The Two Bridges

Highlight • Bridge

Route ridden with E-bike

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7.73 km

Bridge over the Cure

Highlight • Other

On the cure, in Pierre-Perthuis, an old bridge and a modern bridge are found side by side giving this place a special character.

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13.7 km

Camping Municipal de Saint-Père

Highlight • Rest Area

Nice little campsite right on the banks of the Cure with water access.

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14.3 km

La Cure

Highlight • River

If you come from the brewery, near which there are also hiking parking lots, you will pass this beautiful embankment on the Cure shortly before the village. From here you have a beautiful view of the opposite bank with the church and the historic stone bridge crossing the river. A very nice photo opportunity.

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14.7 km

Notre-Dame Church of Saint-Père

Highlight • Religious Site

You drive through the winding streets of the picturesque village of Saint-Père in the valley before Vézelay and then the BVlick opens onto this village church! An incredible porch in front of a really beautiful late Gothic church. Wikipedia writes:
The Église Notre-Dame de Saint-Père church is built in Burgundy Flamboyant style and is considered a masterpiece of this Late Gothic style. The three-nave church with its 50-meter-high bell tower was built in the 13th century and has been listed as a monument historique since 1840. The two chapels were in the 14./15. and the narthex added in the 15th century. The iconography of the church is not very enlightening, but inside you can find the rather worn-out portrait of a Geizkragens, which keeps his purse hanging around his neck. He is flanked on both sides by a dragon that seems to bite his ears off. This symbol can be seen quite ambiguously: The man turns deaf, although he certainly had the means to help (egoism) or the man is so fixated on his belongings that he forgets to protect himself - himself something good to do (greed as obsessive-compulsive disorder). The richest is the open narthex. For more than two centuries, sculptors were able to realize their ideas and stonemasons could prove their skill in craftsmanship. Upon entering the covered narthex you can see on the right two statuettes in half relief, which are to represent Girart de Roussillon and his wife Berthe or his daughter Eve. They are considered the founders of the former abbey of Saint-Père.
Probably the church (former abbey) had a function as the last stop in the pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Mary Magdalene in Vézelay.

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14.9 km

Old Saint-Père church cemetery

Highlight • Monument

The old village church from the 11th century originally stood here. It was destroyed during the Huguenot Wars and later the village cemetery was set up in the former churchyard. Today's cemetery is just a few hundred meters further on the edge of the village on the right of the road.

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15.0 km

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Parking

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

10.2 km

3.00 km

947 m

631 m

102 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

10.3 km

3.46 km

1.07 km

< 100 m

< 100 m

< 100 m

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