Notre-Dame Church – Bourbon l'Archambault loop from Autry-Issards

Notre-Dame Church – Bourbon l'Archambault loop from Autry-Issards

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Notre-Dame Church – Bourbon l'Archambault loop from Autry-Issards

01:45

38.4km

380m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: September 25, 2026

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Includes a segment that goes up or down a series of steps

You may need to carry your bike.

After 17.9 km for 29 m

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Start point

Parking

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4.88 km

Saint-Menoux and its débredinoire

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In Bourbon dialect, a bredin means "a simpleton". The church of Saint-Menoux is known in the region because it houses a "débredinoire", a simple stone hole in a wall, which allows you to regain your sanity by sticking your head through it. Attention, the legend wants that the unfortunate one who bumps his head there recovers all the "bredinerie" left there by the predecessors!

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7.88 km

Notre-Dame Church

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Romanesque church with Burgundian, Auvergne and Berry influence.
Built at the end of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th, the current building belongs to the transitional Romanesque style. Indeed, if it is Romanesque in its general plan, the ornamentation of its portals and its capitals, its narrow semi-circular openings, its elegant apse and its cul-de-four vaulted apsidioles, it is "timidly" Gothic through the vault of its nave. Furthermore, built at the crossroads of three dioceses, this construction was influenced by the Burgundian, Auvergne and Berry schools. The capitals are most interesting: intertwined foliage, heads of grimacing men and beasts, grotesque masks...
A statue of the Virgin with the bird in polychrome wood dates from the 17th century. It is remarkable for its state of preservation and its subject: Mary holding the child Jesus in her arms with a bird perched on his hand. This refers to the apocryphal gospel of the childhood of Jesus according to Thomas written in the 3rd century: Jesus as a child performs miracles such as giving life to clay birds.

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17.9 km

Quiqu'engrogne Tower

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18.5 km

Bourbon l'Archambault

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City of character in the hollow of a valley in the Bourbonnais bocage. Known for its thermal waters since antiquity. It is also the cradle of the kings of France, as evidenced by the imposing medieval castle, clinging to a rocky promontory.

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18.7 km

Hotel de Marle

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Dreamy place with old buildings.

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19.1 km

Saint George's Church

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The building bears witness to Burgundian Romanesque art with its semi-circular portal, at the bottom of a splay decorated with eggs and tori: numerous historic capitals.
In the 15th century two side chapels were added, including the chapel of the Holy Cross which since the Revolution contained the relics of the Cross of Christ and a thorn of the Holy Crown. These are now at the parish house. At the back of the 12th century nave, the romantic 16-stop organ dates from 1892. During his stays in Bourbon, Camille St-Saëns accompanied the services on the latter.

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38.4 km

End point

Parking

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