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Centre-Val de Loire
Saint-Amand-Montrond
Sidiailles

Lac de Sidiailles from Allier – Château de Culan loop from La Roche

Routes
Bike touring routes & trails
France
Centre-Val de Loire
Saint-Amand-Montrond
Sidiailles

Lac de Sidiailles from Allier – Château de Culan loop from La Roche

Hard

5.0

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14

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Lac de Sidiailles from Allier – Château de Culan loop from La Roche

04:56

75.3km

870m

Cycling

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: March 1, 2026

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530 m

Lac de Sidiailles from Allier

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What you don't see when you walk here: this lake exists thanks to sheer stubbornness.
When the La Joyante River was dammed in the 1970s, no one believed the lake …

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30.3 km

We no longer know where to look.
On one side the Culan viaduct, a former railway line passing over the Arnon and rehabilitated as a pedestrian path.
On the other, …

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30.7 km

Château de Culan

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Castle in excellent condition, mainly built between the 12th and 15th centuries. It follows two previous buildings destroyed in the 10th and 12th centuries.
Mazarin ordered in 1651, at the …

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50.5 km

5

54.1 km

Bocage bourbonnais

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One of the pretty trails of the GR de Pays "On the path of the Maîtres Sonneurs", which is inspired by George Sand's book of the same name and is maintained on a daily basis by an association.

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58.9 km

You are here, at the highest point in the Cher department and the Centre-Val de Loire region. It rises to an altitude of 504 meters. The roads leading there are quiet and peaceful.

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75.3 km

End point

Parking

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Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

68.5 km

5.42 km

738 m

666 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

52.3 km

17.5 km

5.56 km

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Lowest point (220 m)

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