Tour de France 2024 - stage 10

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Orleans (Loiret) to Le Lioran (Saint Amand-Montrond)

    Day 10 ,Tuesday 9th May..in the Centre–Val-de-Loire region.takes riders from the Loire valley at Orleans, to the small town of Saint Amand-Montrond on the river Cher, recognised as the geographical centre of mainland France.
    This is a genuinely flat stage, with only a few small climbs along the way. It will take riders close to some oif the finest of the Loire Chateaux, notably Chambord, where Leonardo da Vinci once lived and worked, and through an area of woodland and lakes known as the Sologne, once prized royal hunting grounds. After the Sologne, the route passes through the small town of Vierzon, before heading out across  one of the great agricultural areas of France, to Issoudun, before returning towards the Cher valley for the final part of the route as far as Saint Amand.
    Among noteworthy sites in the area that are not on the route of the Tour de France are several Loire châteaux, notably Chambord, Blois and Chenonceux, and the magnificent medieval cathedral in Bourges, that many people consider to be finer than Notre Dame in Paris. Like Notre Dame de Paris, Bougrges cathedral has some magnificent medieval stained glass windows.

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Detail from one of the medieval stained glass windows in Bourges cathedral

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