A04 Loches - Villefagnan

Fourth leg from Oekene (Roeselare) to Santiago de Compostela: from Loches to Villefagnan, 163 kilometers and 967 meters of elevation. Mainly gently rolling and quiet roads.

After a small descent, you start the climb out of the valley of ‘l’ Indre’. It goes up and down a bit on a plateau before descending into the valley of ‘l’Aulnaie’. In la Roche-Posay, after 47 km, we cross ‘l’Aulnaie’, which forms the border between the Centre-Val de Loire region, department Indre-et-Loire, and you enter the Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitoux-Charente region, department Vienne. The rest of the journey in France continues through this large region along the Atlantic coast.

Once again, you climb out of a valley, again over a plateau, towards the next river, ‘la Vienne’. By then, we are in Chauvigny and have covered 78 km. After the climb out of the valley, 60 relatively flat kilometers follow. In Moulin le Minot, you reach the river ‘Charente’ and the eponymous department. A bit later, after 149 km, the climb to the highest point (180 m) of the day follows. After some more ups and downs, you arrive in Villefagnan, a small municipality with about 1100 inhabitants.