Via Fluvia

The Via Fluvia was built on a former railway line, as a link between the Loire and the Rhone. This cycle route takes you to the volcanoes of the Velay and the Ardeche and offers a colorful variety of landscape atmospheres. In the heart of untouched nature you cycle past dormant volcanoes (\\\"Sucs\\\"), breathtaking valleys, rugged rock gorges and the green hills of the Pilat Mountains. The railway past is still clearly present on this Voie Verte, the Velay Express train and its old locomotive (the highlight of your journey) testify to this. Between Lavoute-sur-Loire and Annonay, the cycle route is unbroken and between Riotord and Saint-Marcel-les-Annonay, the route is currently on an unmarked road, pending the completion of the railway line.

Bicycle route road types

By road: 39.45 km Bike path: 59.11 km Temporary route: 27.75 km

Via Fluvia: 100 km << voies vertes >> cycle paths between the Loire and the Rhone

Signage and features of the Via Fluvia

The route is marked with the official logo, except between Maisonneuve (2 km from Riotord) and Saint-Marcel-les-Annonay, where you follow a temporary, unmarked route, pending the completion of the railway line and the Tracol tunnel. Don't forget to download the .pdf and .gpx tracks of the route.

Train connections and stations on the cycle route

• Lavoute-sur-Loire : TER regional line Le Puy-en-Velay <> Saint-Etienne
• Connection TER regional line Le Puy-en-Velay <> Clermont-Ferrand and Le Puy-en-Velay <> Saint-Etienne
• Oumey station : departure point of the Velay Express tourist train . Reservations (persons and bicycles) required.

Connection to other other cycling routes

• Grande Traversee de l\\\'Ardeche mountain bike trail (overlapping section from Annonay to the hamlet of"Les Seux\\\" - Boulieu-les-Annonay)

Source: https://nl.francevelotourisme.com/fietsroute/via-fluvia