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Stage 4Plumelec - Le Puy du Fou 225km |
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From Plumélec to Le Puy du Fou, from which the Tour took off in 1993, stage four links Brittany to the Vendée region, with its folklore, its windmills and wars, among them the clashes between royalists and republicans during the revolution period. Two major touristic attractions: the crossing of the Brière region, with its marshes, which novelist Alphonse de Chateaubriand used to write songs about, and the Pont de Saint Nazaire bridge, which the Tour riders crossed for the first time in 1988. The route is flat overall, but much less so along the "Gatine" river, before reaching an altitude of 250 meters at the Puy du Fou. |