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Banyuls Pass – Collioure loop from Argelès-sur-Mer

Banyuls Pass – Collioure loop from Argelès-sur-Mer

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Banyuls Pass – Collioure loop from Argelès-sur-Mer

06:13

113km

2,020m

Road cycling

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: March 30, 2026

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Waypoints

Start point

Train Station

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39.5 km

Coll de Manrella

Mountain Pass

70.5 km

Sant Jaume Church

Highlight • Religious Site

The current structure of the church is the result of a significant remodeling carried out in the 18th century. The church has a rectangular floor plan and consists of three naves. The central nave is higher than the side naves and has a series of buttresses on its exterior walls. The bell tower, attached to one side of the building, consists of two bodies: a square tower with a brick rafter on which is located the octagonal bell tower with four semicircular arch openings, topped by a brick dome. The tower is plastered, while the octagonal body of the bell tower exposes the original stonework. The main façade is quite simple from a decorative point of view, presenting a door with a lintel framed by well-cut ashlars, a niche with a semicircular arch and an oculus at the top.

The bell tower is believed to be largely Romanesque, dating to the 12th-13th centuries. On the main façade there is an inscription dating from 1786, which indicates that the church, of Romanesque origin, was completely renovated in the 18th century. It is mentioned for the first time in the year 1226 (Sancti Jacobi de Spolla). Furthermore, it appears in a probably false document from 884, which affirms its belonging to the Monastery of Sant Quirze de Colera.

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70.6 km

Ascent to Coll de Banyuls from Espolla

Highlight (Segment) • Mountain Pass

The distance from the viewpoint to the border with France is about 8km, you will travel along a road without vehicles and with the occasional veteran cyclist who will surely repeat the area because the truth is that it is worth it. You will hardly use up battery, only in the final part of the section but very little (it seems like there is a lot of positive slope but that's all it seems...).

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80.1 km

Banyuls Pass

Highlight • Mountain Pass

The approach from Catalonia is much more pleasant due to the incline, but longer and leads through a pretty, lonely landscape. The journey on the French side is short, but very tough. There is little car traffic on the entire route.

At the pass on the Catalan side there is a small but very solid, publicly accessible refuge with a table, oven and extra bedroom. There is also a spring there, but it only trickles very sparingly.

On the pass itself, several information and memorial plaques remind of the many people who had to flee to France via this pass before the repression by the Franco regime. At the Refugio there is a plaque commemorating two libertarian activists who were arrested here in 1977 and tortured to death in prison six months later.

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95.6 km

Coll dels Gascons

Mountain Pass

98.1 km

Viewpoint with orientation table

Highlight • Viewpoint

It's worth taking a photo here after the long climb, and there is also shade for the drinking break

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99.9 km

View from the Col de Mollo

Highlight • Viewpoint

Easy-to-drive road that winds upwards over numerous hairpin bends. Steep at times and not easy to do with poor gear ratios. I had to keep pushing sections...The last 1.5 km are no longer accessible to cars and are extremely steep! But at the top you will be rewarded with a spectacular view!

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105 km

Collioure

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Collioure is one of these beautiful villages nestled in the Côte Vermeille at the foot of the Pyrenees. The fishermen's houses, colorful mosaics, huddle around the bay where the church and its famous bell tower, the Royal Castle, the ramparts and the towers are reflected.
The city experienced its most prosperous period in the 13th century with its attachment to the crown of Aragon. After a few centuries where it passed successively from the crown of Spain to the crown of France, the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) established its definitive attachment to France. In order to secure the border, Vauban enlarged the Royal Castle, created the immense glacis which surrounds it and surrounded the city with ramparts, thus giving it its appearance today. In the 19th century, the local economy relied on two essential resources: vines and fishing. The booming anchovy cured industry has given it its international notoriety.
At the beginning of the 20th century, with the pictorial revolution of Fauvism, painters (Matisse, Derain) discovered Collioure and made this charming little port known. Since then, visitors have come to admire this privileged place where the beauty of nature, the picturesqueness of historical monuments, the mild climate and the brightness of the sky come together.

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105 km

View of Collioure and the Mediterranean Sea

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From here there is a view of the city and the sea in the distance.

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108 km

View of Collioure

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Collioure, the sea and Fort Saint Elme.
This road winds under the Douy viaduct and allows you to reach the center of Collioure.

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113 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

98.2 km

8.14 km

5.54 km

1,000 m

486 m

113 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

96.4 km

15.5 km

1.58 km

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (720 m)

Lowest point (10 m)

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Sant Jaume Church

Ascent to Coll de Banyuls from Espolla

Banyuls Pass

Viewpoint with orientation table

View from the Col de Mollo

Collioure

View of Collioure and the Mediterranean Sea

View of Collioure

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