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BICYCLE MUSEUM - SOUTHERN BURGUNDY
Musée du Vélo and the Voie Verte Cycling Route

Whether you’re a fan of the "Yellow Jersey", on your own bicycle “Tour de France” or just on a wandering search through the southern Burgundy region on a wine tasting trip or seeking a French Chateau to visit, on the road between the Abbey of Cluny and Tournus just outside of Cormatin in the southern Burgundy wine road area you’ll come across the Musée du Vélo, a truly unique private museum with a fascinating collection of bicycles (some motorized) with 150 models in a former 18th century farm barn on two floors retracing the history of the cycle from its invention in 1818 as a “velocipede” to the first bicycle with a chain drive in 1880. Three seaters, three wheelers, tandem, delivery, taxi, milkman and military bicycles. Also on display are posters, plates of bicycle art and history, photographs of Tour de France French bicycle racing heroes, license plates, placards, and other curios. In the summer the museum is open from 10 to 6:30 but closed for the obligatory French lunch between 12 and 2. The rest of the year it opens at 2pm.

Voie Verte Cycling Route

Cormatin and the Velo Museum are located along the “Voie Verte”, a recreational route over 100 kilometers through southern Burgundy from Charney-les-Macon through Cormatin to Givry popular for cycling tours, hiking or roller blading through wine vineyards and past Romanesque churches and chateaus in the rolling French countryside. The pathway offers 25 loop circuits through the local countryside. Between Cluny and Charney-les-Macon the bike path runs through a former abandoned railway tunnel, the "Bois Clair", the longest tunnel in Europe on a recreational pathway with no cars. It takes 6 to 8 minutes to get through on a bicycle and 20 minutes on foot. Between Cluny and Givry, the path winds through the hilly Lamartine Valley. Located near the Velo Museum and Voie Verte is the medieval ruin of Castle Brancion (see Medieval Chateau Brancion) and the elegant Chateau Cormatin. Where to stay for a cycling tour of Voie Verte paths see Tournus and Cluny. © Bargain Travel Europe

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