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This circuit of more than 40 kilometres is the best way to discover the valley of the Loir and the Yerre. At the beginning of Chartres, which offers many remarkable sites to visit before leaving, the journey passes through Saint-Denis-les-Pont, Douy and its mills, Saint-Hilaire-sur-Yerre and Montigny-le-Galon with its castle open to the visit and its church Saint Gilles. The last steps are the municipality of Cloyes-sur-le-Loir, where it is possible to pause in the pleasant Emile Zola Park, and the numerous ponds that appear in this region of the south of the Eure-et-Loir.

For more than 20 kilometres, the hikers tour the forest of Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais. In this circuit, land and water blend with the Blaise valley and canopy cover. By crossing the area, the two pyramids were used as benchmarks for the fox hunters as well as the water mills of Saint-Ange-et-Torçay and Fontaine-les-Ribouts. In the immediate vicinity of this promenade in Saulnières, accommodation of several kinds, including a campsite, is available.

From the town to the forest passing through the river, the Bois de la Bois circuit allows to discover various landscapes in the south of the Eure-et-Loir. It starts with the city centre of Husk, from St. Mark Chapel on Rue des Changes in Place des Halles, where the market settles every week. Then the circuit passes through the wood where many species of animals are visible, before finishing through the path following the Ozanne and the recreation base. Many activities can be carried out around the water plan.

This is a circuit that almost deserves to be done on the contrary… Indeed, the program provides for a departure in front of the church and then along the Fermented basin by turning its back at the castle of Saint-Simon. Except that anyone who has arrived on this great road, between the two rows of trees that give an incredible perspective on the remains, understands the interest of returning through this path. However, in both cases, the cyclist will enjoy the calm of the Forêt-Vidame forest in which the chapel of Réveillon is nestled with its recent murals. Please check carefully before the church is open! And after the ATV exit, nothing prevents you from going to the arboretum.

No it is not just the Eure and the Loir as rivers in the department! Other rivers fed the beauceronne land, such as the Drouette and Voise rivers. The 24 km walk from Epernon has the particularity of passing through these rivers which feed the Louis XIV canal, whose remains are visible during the exit. Other remarkable landscapes that can make pleasant and interesting stops: the castle of the favorite Madame de Maintenon and the Conservatory of Grinding and Pavés.

From Sunrise to Maintenon, the valley of the Eure will have no secrets for the athletes who will follow the 43 kilometers of the circuit "By mountains and by Vaux". Starting from the old abbey of Josaphatpark in Ascend, cyclists will move near the castle of Vauventriers in Champhol and discover the villages that stretch along the river. Saint-Prest, Mévoisins, Saint-Piat, Jouy. The circuit also breaks in villages inside the department such as Oisème or Chartainvilliers.

Diving in the Thymerais. Between Dreux and Normandy, about kilometres from Chartres, the forest of Châteauneuf is a pleasant landscape for a mountain bike ride as the "Châteauneuf Forest" route proposes. The Royal Alley or the Tour de France allows to find vestiges of the th century when the mills or forges present north of the journey, towards Saint-Ange-et-Torçay or Fontaine-les-Ribouts, remember that the Eure and Loir was also an industrial land. This story is also identifiable on the circuit of the Blaise Valley around Maillebois and Blévy.

The village of Langey is linked on behalf of two French poets: from Birthplace and Rabelais. This 11 kilometre circuit is therefore part of the house of the latter, which was built next to the local castle. It also makes it possible to close to the church of the commune before discovering other remains of the feudal seigneury like barn under the tithes. This large building in length dates back to the th century. Finally, the promenade takes the walkers to Mersantes, a former local head-site.

This 15 kilometre tour, open for hiking as well as a bicycle ride, allows you to discover a region that mixes land and water. From the side of Maintenon, from whence the path, it is possible to borrow the different bridges that cross the Eure and discover the aqueduct of Louis XIV, the last stretch of the canal which was supposed to link the Eure-et-Loir and Versailles. A little further, the way through the villages of Pierres and Villiers-le-Villiers. If water plans transcend the territory, these two communes are at the heart of the fields and the eurélienne land.