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Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

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Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

Name: Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
Rating: 2

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Location: Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert, Lodève, Occitania, France

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Best Road Cycling Rides to Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

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1. Loop in the Hérault gorges

82.5km

04:04

1,240m

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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2. View of the Devil's Bridge – Devil's Bridge loop from Gignac

33.9km

01:27

260m

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

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3. Vue sur le Pont du Diable – Col des Lavagnes loop from Le Vigan

117km

05:26

1,470m

Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Tips

Fabrice Rigalleau

May 7, 2023

An exceptional site, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert is a village built around the Abbey of Gellone. It is sometimes nicknamed "The Occitan Mont Saint Michel". It was, and remains, an important step on the way to Santiago de Compostela. It is also a starting point for beautiful hikes in the surrounding massif.
You can access by this road to the car park and even to the large square of the village where you will find fountains, cafes and various stalls, and also enjoy the shade of the imposing plane tree, 160 years old. To stroll through the alleys of the village, you will have to get off the bike.
Obviously, it is a highly touristic site, so it can be very crowded during high season, and it is probably better to go in low season.
Finally, I realized when I came back to it that the waterfall I had had the chance to photograph only flowed intermittently, in the spring until May depending on the year.

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Fabrice Rigalleau

May 26, 2021

Classified (and rightly so) among the most beautiful villages in France, the village is up to now accessible by bike, with the marvelous view of the abbey and the waterfall.

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Elevation 110 m

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Wednesday 24 December

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52 %

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Max wind speed: 9.0 km/h

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Location: Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert, Lodève, Occitania, France

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Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert

1. Loop in the Hérault gorges

2. View of the Devil's Bridge – Devil's Bridge loop from Gignac

3. Vue sur le Pont du Diable – Col des Lavagnes loop from Le Vigan

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