Cycling loop: Boucle de Bonvillard

From the Olympic city to the gateway to the Maurienne valley, a well-balanced route combining valley and climb to the first heights of the wild La Lauzière massif.

Leave Albertville quickly and drive through the typical hamlets of the Combe de Savoie through the department's renowned orchards. Here grow apples and pears, which you can easily find at one of the local markets or greengrocers. The climb up to Bonvillard will certainly require some effort, but you'll be rewarded with a panoramic view of the Bauges massif and the Montmélian basin a little further on. Then it's a relatively steady descent to the gateway to the Maurienne valley (oh, there's that little climb up to Bonvillaret, but that'll pass on its own!), which you'll quickly leave behind to return to the flatness of the valley and retrace your steps. In the opposite direction, you'll rediscover the hamlets you passed through before, but from a different point of view: did you notice that pretty barn or orchard earlier?