ISSN :1767/5537
2012
autumn
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AQUITAINE TOURIST BOARD NEWSLETTER INFORMATION
SOMMAIRE SUMMARY
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Cycling holidays
• Services adapted to bike tourism • The Eurovéloroute website
Subtainable tourism
• European eco-label: 7 new certified providers
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Gastronomy
• Foodie holiday in Périgueux - The 12th Salon du livre gourmand (Food Book Fair) - A foretaste of the foie gras markets - Château life in town Castel Peyssard
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Accommodation
• Le Clos du Rocher, a new complex in Périgord Noir • Stay at the heart of Bordeaux, in a 200 year-old hotel, La Cour Carrée • Guest house Dousud in the Sauternes area
Wine tourism
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• Viniti tasting workshop • Sleep at the Domaine de Fonteneau • Guest house at the Château Lestange • The Crushpad experience in the village of Bages • Guest house at the Château Pape Clément • Sleep in a wine vat in Moulon • Bordeaux Wine Trip, a practical application • The organic tours of the Berticot cellars
Prehistory
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• Castel Merle in Périgord
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News in brief
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CYCLING HOLIDAYS ON THE AQUITAINE COAST
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The Vélodyssée®: another way of spending your holidays In the spring edition of Aquitaine News, we announced the opening of the Vélodyssée on 30 June 2012, one of the 15 EuroVéloroutes. Let's head out to discover this route that follows the Atlantic coast.
The Vélodyssée in Aquitaine: a 388 kilometres long route Everyone will enjoy it, be they sporty or contemplative, couples or families, for nomadic holidays or day-long trips. It is a completely clean site, particularly in Gironde and the Landes, where it is safe and accessible to all. In the Basque Country (45km of the route), the region is more mountainous, it goes up and down! Here, the route is sometimes on cycle paths, sometimes on roads.
A welcoming natural peninsula After crossing Brittany, Vendée and Charente-Maritime, the veloroute follow a straight line down the Aquitaine coast. Between Royan and the Pointe de Graves, crossing the Gironde estuary, the largest in Europe, is a unique experience, a gateway to Gironde region and the Médoc peninsula. Renowned for its wines, Médoc is also famous for its seaside towns: Soulac-sur-Mer, Hourtin, Carcans, Lacanau. 19th and 20th century villas, long beaches of fine sand, great waves for surfing: here you can feel the power of nature and the great landscapes it sculpts.
Arcachon Bay: oysters and dunes A bit further south, the Arcachon Bay welcomes visitors to its oyster harbours. Put down your bike to step aboard a boat with an oyster farmer, stop in a hut to taste oysters in the sunshine with a glass of white wine. You will have enough energy to take on the Pilat Dune - 106 metres high - listed as a major national site, a desert scene near the ocean. Afterwards, you can start the gentle ride through the Gascony Landes forest, which stretches out as far as the eye can see either side of the cycle path.
• Bordeaux Executive Travel : an agency that “creates curiosity”
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Transport
• Strasbourg-Bordeaux • Lille-Bordeaux
©Joël Damase
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