Bridge over the Cure – Château d'Island loop from Tharoiseau

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Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Avallon

Tharoiseau

Bridge over the Cure – Château d'Island loop from Tharoiseau

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Bridge over the Cure – Château d'Island loop from Tharoiseau

02:06

32.8km

410m

Cycling

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

Last updated: November 1, 2026

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Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 5.07 km for 82 m

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Parking

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134 m

Tharoiseau church, fountain and washhouse

Highlight • Other

Tharoiseau was fortified from 1537, sections of walls still exist in the form of vestiges. The parish was created between October 28, 1668 and April 17, 1669. At the apse of the church, an imposing construction, an open-air washhouse, is protected by a roof on two of its sides. It is completed on the facade by a succession of three basins which served as a watering trough. On the right side, the fountain included in the pile was used to supply water to local residents. This structure is supplied by the spring located on the church square.

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5.11 km

Notre-Dame Church of Saint-Père

Highlight • Religious Site

You drive through the winding alleys of the picturesque village of Saint-Père in the valley before Vézelay, and then the view opens up to this village church! An incredible porch in front of a truly beautiful late Gothic church. Wikipedia writes:
The church Église Notre-Dame de Saint-Père is built in the Burgundian Flamboyant style and is considered a masterpiece of this stylistic phase of the late Gothic period. The three-nave church with its 50-meter-high bell tower was built in the 13th century and has been a listed historical monument since 1840. The two chapels were added in the 14th/15th centuries, and the narthex in the 15th century. The iconography of the church is not very revealing, but inside you can find a rather worn portrait of a miser, who is holding onto his money bag, which hangs around his neck. He is flanked on the left and right by dragons, which seem to be biting off his ears. This symbol can be interpreted in a double sense: The man pretends to be deaf, although he has the means to help (egoism), or the man is so fixated on his possessions that he forgets to protect himself – to do something good for himself (greed as an obsessive disorder). The open narthex is the most richly decorated. For more than two centuries, sculptors were able to realize their ideas here and stonemasons could demonstrate their artistic craftsmanship. Upon entering the covered narthex, you see two statuettes on the right in half-relief, which are said to depict 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 (formerly an abbey) served as the final stop for pilgrims on their way to the tomb of St. Mary Magdalene in Vézelay.

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8.83 km

The Two Bridges

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Route ridden with E-bike

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8.91 km