Nancy - Bèze (Côte d’Or)
A cycling route starting in Villers-lès-Nancy, Grand Est, France.
Overview
About this route
It's a long route (between 8 and a half and 9 hours in the saddle) but if your legs are in good shape, it can be done in one day.
From Nancy, you first follow the connecting canal, then the cycle path along the Canal de l'Est / Canal des Vosges, which you follow for its entire length, passing through Charmes, Épinal, Bains-les-Bains to Fontenoy-le-Château. The greenway along the canal continues through Selles to Corre (about 135 km from Nancy) where you need to cross the footbridge at the entrance to the village: the paved track continues for a kilometre or two but then ends abruptly with no way to continue.
From Corre, I took the D44 to Jussey, then the D46/D45 to Montigny-lès-Cherlieu and Preigney. Continuing due south on the D1 to Cintrey and Vaite. Throughout this part of the route, you keep climbing and descending long hills: no excessive climbs but it's quite tiring over time. From Vaite, take the D70 to Dampierre-sur-Salon (nice bridge), then secondary roads (D2 then D13) towards Autet, Beaujeu and Corneux (former Premonstratensian abbey, unfortunately closed to the public). Eventually, you reach Gray, cross the Saône on the old bridge and follow the D2 again (Nantilly, Autrey, St-Seine-sur-Vingeanne). You cross the Canal de la Marne to the Saône and continue towards Fontaine-Française (monument in memory of the battle won by Henry IV before entering the village, then castle). Following the D960, you quickly reach the destination, one of the most beautiful villages in France.
Rather than going to Bèze, you can go to Dijon from Gray and take the direct TER back to Nancy.
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- Duration
- 243.1 km
- Distance
- 1,631 m
- Ascent
- 1,648 m
- Descent
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- Avg. speed
- 384 m
- Max. altitude
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Route quality
Waytypes & surfaces along the route
Waytypes
Access road
85.1 km
(35 %)
Path
34 km
(14 %)
Surfaces
Paved
158 km
(65 %)
Unpaved
4.9 km
(2 %)
Asphalt
158 km
(65 %)
Gravel
4.9 km
(2 %)
Undefined
80.2 km
(33 %)
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