Digoin / Gilly-sur-Loire
On your bicycle, you pedal along the regional border between Burgundy and Auvergne. In fact, there’s a detour you can enjoy on a new greenway beside the Canal Latéral à la Loire in the Auvergne county of Allier. The official route sticks to quiet roads through Burgundy’s Charolais hills. The suggested detour is easy and accessible to all.
Route
Greenway by the Canal Latéral à la Loire from Digoin’s canal-bridge to Diou and Gilly-sur-Loire. Take care crossing the bridge between these last two. The official route is along quiet, signposted roads, through hilly terrain with slopes.
Gradients and elevation
Road types
Surface
Not to be missed on this route
The canal bridge to Digoin
Don’t miss
Digoin: an historic mariners’ town at the junction of several waterways (the Loire River, the Canal du Centre, the Canal de Roanne and the Canal Latéral à la Loire), with a lively port, a canal-bridge over the Loire, a dedicated museum space called ObservaLoire and a ceramics museum
Diou: with a port on the canal and shops and services
Gilly-sur-Loire: a quiet little town beside the Loire.
Markets
Digoin : Friday and Sunday morning
