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9. Etappe: Tarascon - Avignon

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Added on 13 Jun 2018

last edited by ThimbleU on 04 Sep 2018

Cycle route metrics

ridden

Total distance in km

Cumulative elevation gain in m

176

Avg. slope uphill in %

0,49

Cumulative elevation loss in m

178

Total cycling hours

2,3

Avg. pace in km/h

15,7

Min. height

Max. height

110

GPS track data

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Track points in total

626

Track points per km (avg)

Start/endpoint

Start location

Tarascon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR (27 m NHN)

End location

Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR (25 m NHN)

ridden on

26 Jun 2018

Weather

Sunny

Accommodation

Hôtel Au Saint Roch
9 rue Paul Merindol
FR-84000 Avignon

Signposting

No signposting.

Properties

asphalt

36.5 km

100 %

The information relates to the track as traveled!

Slope Gradient Distribution

Show Slope Gradient Distribution

descending	flat	ascending
slope gradient	distance in m	slope gradient	distance in m	slope gradient	distance in m
<-19%	-	-2%	1.097	3%	1.455
-19%	-	-1%	3.673	4%	957
-18%	-	0%	21.844	5%	251
-17%	-	1%	3.201	6%	-
-16%	-	2%	1.632	7%	58
-15%	-			8%	37
-14%	-			9%	-
-13%	31			10%	-
-12%	21			11%	-
-11%	116			12%	-
-10%	-			13%	-
-9%	82			14%	-
-8%	12			15%	-
-7%	102			16%	-
-6%	103			17%	-
-5%	299			18%	-
-4%	338			19%	-
-3%	1.121			>19%	-
6%	2.225	86%	31.447	8%	2.758

Travel report

The showmen have dismantled the rides at night and nothing of the funfair is any longer noticeable. Instead, there was now a Provencal market. All sorts of things were offered, but apparently no food. On the way out of the city we passed the château, which presented itself in the best light in the early morning.

Then we cycled north, not far from the Rhône, for about seven kilometers along the main road to Vallabrègues. On a side road we cycled through fruit plantation and a few vineyards. So we got to Bourbon without much traffic.

High above the village are the former Château and a windmill. In the village, the houses cling to the narrow alley. Through the former "city" gate, we left village.

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Château de Tarascon

Boulbon

It followed a section on a paved road, on the left fruit trees, on the right rocky terrain.

Thereafter, an increase of 80 meters begun. The vegetation was changing fast. Meagerly grass, pine-trees and other conifers, more and more isolated standing and growing ever smaller. At the top we were at the Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet. The buildings of the abbey are not particularly beautiful on the outside, the more the interior of the abbey church Basilique de l'Immaculée-Conception.

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Abbaye Saint-Michel de Frigolet

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From the monastery, it was a long way down road D35E to just before Barbentane. Past a small windmill, which was active until 1845, we came to the upper city gate of the village and to the Tour Anglica. Through narrow alleys with one-way traffic we cycled through the old village to the church square. The old Town Hall, the Maison des Chevaliers de Malte Notre Dame and the church Notre Dame border this square.

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Barbentane, Tour Anglica

Barbentane, Porte du Séquier

Barbentane, Maison des Chevaliers

Back in the plain, it was still ten kilometers to the hotel in Avignon. Initially the traffic was lesser, but from the bridge over the Durance it was heavier. We could soon leave road N570 and meandered over quieter back roads into the city.

Our hotel was great. Although it has only two stars, but it is just outside the city wall in the southwest, has a beautiful green garden and from traffic noises around you get nothing. The bicycles were parked in an underground car park, which only offers long-term rented parking.

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