| ALPINE CYCLING TOURS |
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| 2012 Pyrenees Route details Check out the maps and details of the amazing towns you'll be exploring in France |
on the banks of a trout filled river is the start of a dozen amazing rides up the valley to the peaks and cols above. A great place to start your pyreneen experience. It's green and quiet and gorgeous and an ideal place to ride your bicycle and retire to your chateau-hotel for spa treatments and world class cuisine. Bagneres-de-Luchon Located in the base of the valley that takes you to the world's most famous climbs and only km's from the border with Spain. This town lies at the foot of some of the most fabulous rides in the world! The Tourmalet, the col d'Aspin, the Peyresourde, just to name a few. Better still, this town will play host to the Tour de France for both a race finish and a race start this year, ensuring that you will see your favorite teams and riders up close. |
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Your Hotel in Saint Girons
| The Beautiful Pyrenees |
July 13, 14, 15, 16 Stay in St Girons at Chateau Beauregard. This elegant residence is a featured chateau-hotel. Once a residence of nobility, now it's stately rooms and romantic, peaceful gardens serve as a place of quiet enjoyment for weary travellers whose legs are sore from climbing. Sit by it's magnificent pool or share a beer in the verdant terrace, Alpine Cycling has the a group. The meals, set in the 19th century converted dining room will satisfy any pallette with their gourmet sensibility and any appetite a cyclist can muster. July 17, 18, 19, 20 Stay in the heart of town of Bagneres de Luchon in a registered " hotel de charme" Stay alongside Pro tour teams and TV crews covering the race as the Tour de France comes to town. You will dine in a finely appointed dining room on gourmet dinners that satisfy a cyclist's hunger, yet appeal to the finer sensiblities and feature regional cuisine. This town is also home to natural hot springs and you may care to visit the "baths" or wander the town. Just miles from Spain and surrounded by dramatic mountains, the town is as scenic as it it a cyclists paradise. July 21: Stay at in Toulouse for your final night before departure Note: We will send you names of specific hotels in our mailings as we have had competitors steal hotels from our itineraries. |