Parcours n°11 - Céreste

A bike ride around the Caseneuve plateau with a crossing of oak woods, lavender fields and cereal tinted in the poppy red season.

mis à jour le 03/05/2019 par Velo Loisir Provence

29.8 km to go

Duration : 2h30

680 m

Max. altitude : 618 m

Recommended period(s)

Spring | Winter | Summer | Autumn |

Type(s) of land

Hard coating (tar, cement, flooring) |

Municipality(ies) crossed

Céreste | Caseneuve | Saint-Martin-de-Castillon | Viens |

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Not to be missed:

Céreste: Saint-Michel church (18th century), site of Carluc, abbey in ruins, Carolingian necropolises, valley of the nest of Amour, Romanesque bridge.

Come: portal and clock tower, Sarrazine towers, 16th century castle (renovated), Saint-Hilaire church (16th and 17th century), Romanesque chapel Saint-Ferréol, communal oven.

Saint-Martin-de-Castillon: St. James the Minor parish church, chapels of Saint-Clément, Saint-Roch and Saint-Pierre de Bagnol, hamlet of the Grands Clements.

Les Bories: These dry stone buildings built without binder or mortar are derived from a pastoral agrarian civilization. It is estimated that the remaining ones are no more than three or four centuries, the oldest having collapsed.