Le Moulin de la Baine – Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes loop from Saint-Hilaire-Brizambourg
Le Moulin de la Baine – Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes loop from Saint-Hilaire-Brizambourg
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Le Moulin de la Baine – Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes loop from Saint-Hilaire-Brizambourg
02:26
57.3km
350m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. 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: June 22, 2026
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After 45.3 km for 256 m
Waypoints
Start point
Train Station
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4.54 km
Gallo-Roman Aqueduct
Highlight • Monument
15.0 km
Abbey of Saint-Bris-des-Bois
Highlight • Historical Site
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19.0 km
Tour de Saint-Sauvant
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24.9 km
Le Moulin de la Baine
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25.7 km
Saint-Pierre Church of Chaniers
Highlight • Religious Site
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32.3 km
Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes
Highlight • Religious Site
After several wars and fires, the place was restored in the 1970s and 1980s and is now a hotel.
When you walk through the long corridors you feel like you have been transported back to the time when the abbey was still alive.
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34.3 km
The Amphitheatre of Saintes
Highlight • Historical Site
At the time of Augustus (27 BC – 14 AD), the city probably became the capital of the province of Greater Aquitaine (Aquitania). This then extended from the Loire to the Pyrenees. Mediolanum is endowed with important public monuments: the amphitheater, the arch of Germanicus, the thermal baths and the aqueduct are still partially visible today. At the time of its peak (end of the 1st century – beginning of the 2nd century), the city must have had several thousand inhabitants.
The amphitheater of Mediolanum is one of the earliest in Gaul. It is estimated that its construction began during the reign of Tiberius (14 – 37 AD), and was completed during the reign of Claudius (41 – 54 AD). Like many amphitheaters of the Roman Empire, that of Saintes was located on the outskirts of the ancient city in a chosen and developed site: the “vallon des Arènes”. Thanks to a favorable topography, the builders were relieved of part of their work, the amphitheater resting on the slope of the valley. This elliptical monument, with imposing dimensions (126 meters long and 102 meters wide), made it possible to accommodate several thousand spectators around bloody and violent representations such as gladiator fights (munera) or animal hunts (venationes ).
In the 3rd century, the city declined and was entrenched within an impressive rampart, built from the remains of public and funerary monuments from previous decades. The amphitheater is then no longer used. Since the Middle Ages, it has been used, among other things, as a stone quarry. It was classified as a Historic Monument in 1840. It was from this moment that it was gradually restored.
Today, despite the disappearance of the superstructures, the remains provide a faithful image of what this monument could have been at the time of its splendor.
The site welcomes visitors all year round. Certain objects found during various excavations in the amphitheater district are visible at the archaeological museum.
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36.1 km
Hippodrome gallo-romain
Archaeological Site
45.5 km
La Charente
Lake
46.8 km
Château de Taillebourg
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The castle which had endured all the sieges during the Hundred Years' War and the Wars of Religion was taken and destroyed during the Fronde in 1652. During the Revolution, it was sold in lots as national property. Having suffered from lack of maintenance, the building was the victim of a fire in 1822 and was largely destroyed. All that remains now are the ruins with the ramparts and a tower standing like an emaciated being. It now houses a park which is a haven of peace.
To access it from the banks of the Charente, you have to take a small detour through the town.
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57.3 km
End point
Train Station
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
46.5 km
5.96 km
4.06 km
324 m
269 m
203 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
52.8 km
4.23 km
247 m
109 m
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