Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Cycling Tour Version.

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Region: Auvergne • Languedoc • Rhône-Alpes • Ardèche • Lozère
Linked groups: Literature • Love
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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes Cycling Tour Version.

Route based on the walk of the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his book describing the famous book 'Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'.

You can still do this walk as a hike, but this version is a cycling version of the track. The traditionbal walk follows the GR 70.

Robert Louis made this walk to forget about his love (the American actrice Fanny Osbourne) he couldn't get. But obviously, this walk did the job, because she devorced here husband and got married with Stevenson.

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General difficulty level

General difficulty score: 90/100.

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Difficulty level in detail

Total ascent: 4907 m
Difficulty level (relative): 9/10

Max. slope (base 500m): 9.92 %
Difficulty level (relative): 8/10

Length: 235 km
Difficulty level (relative): 9/10

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Places of interest (along the route) (show all)

Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille (distance from start: 0.02 km/0.01 miles)

Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille
Le Monastier-sur-Gazeille
On september 22, the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson started his walk in Le Monastier. He wrote down his stories in the famous book ' Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes'. It would take him 12 days to get him to the other end of his walk in Saint-Jean-du-Gard. Many fans of Stevenson do this walk along the GR 70.

Goudet (distance from start: 13.9 km/8.64 miles)

Goudet
Goudet

Pradelles (distance from start: 36.82 km/22.88 miles)

Pradelles
Pradelles
Pradelles dominates the valley of l'Allier and the barrage de Naussac. It is located in the middle of a vulcanic area. Jean Baudouin was born here in 1590. He was one of the first members of the respected l'Académie française and teacher of Princess Marguerite de France or Marguerite de Valois or Margueritte de Navarro.

Langogne (distance from start: 43.95 km/27.31 miles)

Langogne
Langogne
Pierre Victor Galtier was born in Langogne in 1846. He was the first person who invented a vaccin against rabies, although he was first, has to share this honour with Louis Pasteur and Emile Roux.

Luc (distance from start: 67.37 km/41.86 miles)

Luc
Luc
In 1384, 2000 English conquered the castle of Luc, after Bertrand du Guesclin got killed nearby Châteauneuf-de-Randon.

Monastery Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (distance from start: 73.87 km/45.9 miles)

Monastery Notre-Dame-des-Neiges
Saint-Laurent-les-Bains
The Trappist monastery Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (Our Lady of the Snows) is located about one and a half miles east of the village,

La Bastide-Puylaurent (distance from start: 75.17 km/46.71 miles)

La Bastide-Puylaurent
La Bastide-Puylaurent
La Bastide-Puylaurent is located along 'Le Chemin de Regordane', the road from l’Île-de-France to Bas Languedoc and the Port of Saint-Gilles at the mediterranean coast.

Chasseradès (distance from start: 85.21 km/52.94 miles)

Chasseradès
Chasseradès

Bleymard (distance from start: 101.13 km/62.84 miles)

Bleymard
Le Bleymard
The professor in anatomy, Henri Rouvière, was born here in Bleymard. He was professor at la Faculté de médecine de Paris and member of l'Académie nationale de médecine. He has a statue on the central square of the village.

Le Pont-de-Montvert (distance from start: 122.79 km/76.3 miles)

Le Pont-de-Montvert
Le Pont-de-Montvert

Château de Grizac (distance from start: 129.83 km/80.67 miles)

Château de Grizac
Le Pont-de-Montvert

(distance from start: 141.98 km/88.22 miles)

Florac

Saint-Germain-de-Calberte (distance from start: 178.84 km/111.13 miles)

Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
Saint-Germain-de-Calberte

Pont Vieux (distance from start: 205.12 km/127.45 miles)

Pont Vieux
Saint-Jean-du-Gard
The Pont Vieux is a stone bridge of the XVIIe century, crossing the Gardon. In 1958, it got destoyed by a flood. It was remade in the styel of how it looke dlike in Roman times.

Alès (distance from start: 234.82 km/145.91 miles)

Alès
Alès
Alès is the center of a mining district and hosts the École des mines d'Alès. The 16th century Alès was an important Huguenot centre. The town was one of the most important markets for raw silk and cocoons in the south of France

Places of interest (near the route)

  1. Cévennes
  2. Florac
  3. Pradelles
  4. Chestnut tree
  5. Langogne
  6. Rock of L'Hospitalet
  7. Lac du Bouchet
  8. Saint-Privat-de-Vallongue
  9. Villefort
  10. Saint-Germain-de-Calberte
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