Our Lady of Loreto – Crissay-sur-Manse Village loop from Avon-les-Roches
Our Lady of Loreto – Crissay-sur-Manse Village loop from Avon-les-Roches
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Our Lady of Loreto – Crissay-sur-Manse Village loop from Avon-les-Roches
02:37
43.1km
290m
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: March 18, 2026
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Parking
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2.16 km
Avon les roches
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2.31 km
Ruins and Washhouse of La Roche-Tranchelion
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2.67 km
Bosse d'Avon les roches
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19.3 km
Path along the Montgoger State Forest
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24.9 km
Our Lady of Loreto
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26.1 km
Courtineau Valley and Troglodyte Houses
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The chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, carved into the rock, would have been the refuge of a hermit in the fourteenth century2. On March 6, 1429, Joan of Arc would have taken shelter there to protect herself from a downpour while she was traveling the Courtineau valley to go to Chinon to see King Charles VII, after two nights spent in Sainte-Catherine-de -Proudwood.
The water mills:
- The Moulin de la Chaise: from 1241 to 1789, it belonged to the Chapter of Saint-Martine de Tours and depended on the Provost of Saint-Epain.
- The Courtineau mill
- The Malicorne mill: in the fourteenth and at least until the seventeenth century, it depended on the seigneury of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine. We grew hemp there
- The Souvres mill.
- The mill of Mareille, large building of three floors which appears on the map of Cassini and the Napoleonic land register of 18274. According to the elders, the building was before 1900 a sawmill, the paddle wheel was placed further.
The village of Courtineau is made up of troglodyte houses. In the mid-twentieth century he still owned a café, a grocery store and a school.
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26.2 km
Troglodyte Houses of the Courtineau Valley
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40.0 km
Crissay-sur-Manse Village
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43.1 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
40.8 km
1.73 km
511 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
23.7 km
18.9 km
511 m
< 100 m
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Highest point (110 m)
Lowest point (50 m)
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