Gien / Sully-sur-Loire

This Loire à Vélo stage runs in part beside the Loire. Here, you reach the eastern end of the stretch of the Loire Valley designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The medieval Château de Sully provides a brilliant introduction, guarding the river, surveying cylists as they pass by. Several stretches of the route are along roads, with some significant slopes.

Route

Following the Loire’s south bank from Gien, at St-Gondon, take the direction indicated « St-Florent », via the D 54 road. After Lion-en-Sullias, get onto the raised Loire-side levée up to Sully-sur-Loire. Be aware of motorized traffic along this stage.

Don’t miss

Gien: its historic stone bridge; its grand brick château, housing a fine hunting museum; the Gien pottery
St-Gondon: an ancient village with many historic vestiges: a feudal castle with its ramparts; a Romanesque church; the St Gondon fountain; an old washhouse ; a neolithic menhir
Sully-sur-Loire: a charming little riverside town, with its medieval-to-classical moated castle, its collegiate church and St Germain Church, which long served the Loire mariners here.

Markets

• Gien : Wednesday and Saturday morning
• Sully-sur-Loire : Monday afternoon