Name: Courtineau Valley
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Courtineau Valley

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Courtineau Valley

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Location: Sainte-Maure-De-Touraine, Chinon, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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1. Courtineau Valley – Cathédrale Saint-Gatien loop from Tours

90.4km

03:54

410m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Rue des Moulins, Montbazon – Cathédrale Saint-Gatien loop from La Membrolle-sur-Choisille

103km

04:31

600m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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3. Chateau Montgoger – Crissay-sur-Manse Village loop from Pré des Lisses

47.8km

01:59

240m

Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Grégory Girard

February 21, 2021

The Courtineau valley is a valley located in the municipalities of Saint-Epain and Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, in the department of Indre-et-Loire, in the Center-Val de Loire region. Six kilometers long, it has many troglodyte dwellings, water mills, washhouses ... It is classified as a natural area of ecological, faunistic and floristic interest (ZNIEFF) because of its remarkable character.

The chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, carved into the rock, would have been the refuge of a hermit in the fourteenth century2. On March 6, 1429, Joan of Arc would have taken shelter there to protect herself from a downpour while she was traveling the Courtineau valley to go to Chinon to see King Charles VII, after two nights spent in Sainte-Catherine-de -Proudwood.

The water mills:

- The Moulin de la Chaise: from 1241 to 1789, it belonged to the Chapter of Saint-Martine de Tours and depended on the Provost of Saint-Epain.

- The Courtineau mill

- The Malicorne mill: in the fourteenth and at least until the seventeenth century, it depended on the seigneury of Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine. We grew hemp there

- The Souvres mill.

- The mill of Mareille, large building of three floors which appears on the map of Cassini and the Napoleonic land register of 18274. According to the elders, the building was before 1900 a sawmill, the paddle wheel was placed further.

The village of Courtineau is made up of troglodyte houses. In the mid-twentieth century he still owned a café, a grocery store and a school.

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Distance 5.13 km

Uphill 30 m

Downhill 0 m

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Location: Sainte-Maure-De-Touraine, Chinon, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Courtineau Valley

1. Courtineau Valley – Cathédrale Saint-Gatien loop from Tours

2. Rue des Moulins, Montbazon – Cathédrale Saint-Gatien loop from La Membrolle-sur-Choisille

3. Chateau Montgoger – Crissay-sur-Manse Village loop from Pré des Lisses

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