“Heart of Montmartre” Route Details (Paris)
The most surprising thing about Heart of Montmartre is that it manages to be the longest route in Paris while skipping an entire section of Paris road!
This route traces three figure-8 laps of the Champs-Élysées, then completes three laps combining the Champs-Élysées and the Montmartre KOM via the Monceau Sprint, before finishing one more lap of the figure-8 Champs. (The road down to the Madeleine is entirely skipped.)
The most surprising thing about Heart of Montmartre is that it manages to be the longest route in Paris while skipping an entire section of Paris road!
This route traces three figure-8 laps of the Champs-Élysées, then completes three laps combining the Champs-Élysées and the Montmartre KOM via the Monceau Sprint, before finishing one more lap of the figure-8 Champs. (The road down to the Madeleine is entirely skipped.)
Route Basics
Length: 74.5 km (46.3 miles)
Elevation: 500m (1,640′)
+3.1km (1.9 miles) lead-in with 13m (43′) elevation
Map: Paris
ZIMetrics
Rating: 37.0/100 🛈
Time Estimates 🛈
lead-in + first lap
4 W/kg: 109 minutes
3 W/kg: 121 minutes
2 W/kg: 147 minutes
Start & Finish
Begins from the Paris start pens with a lead-in to the Champs-Élysées lap banner. Ends at this same banner.
Format: Loop
Ride Achievement Badge: 1490 XP
Run Achievement Badge: none
Strava Segments
Route Description
Beginning from the Paris start pens, you will ride the standard lead-in around the Jardin des Tuileries on the east end of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, heading up the Champs and through the lap banner, which is the route’s official start and finish line.
From here, ride three laps of a modified version of the Champs-Élysées circuit. (It’s modified in that you ride the Jardin des Tuileries section in the opposite direction, turning the circuit into a sort of figure 8.)
After finishing the third lap of the modified Champs-Élysées circuit, you will begin the first lap of an expanded circuit which includes the Montmartre KOM. This circuit begins with a ride up the Champs-Élysées. A right turn at the Arc de Triomphe takes you out to Parc Monceau and the Monceau Sprint, then up the Montmartre KOM to enjoy a Parisian panorama at the Sacré-Coeur before descending to the Tchou Tchou Sprint. Continue on to the Arc de Triomphe, finish your Champs circuit, and you’ve finished the first lap of the expanded circuit.
Ride that expanded circuit twice more, then you’re almost done! All that’s left is one more lap of the modified Champs-Élysées circuit we began with. That means one last time up the Montée des Champs Elysées climb and one more go at the Lutece Sprint located at its summit. Loop around the Arc, descend the Champs, circle the Jardin des Tuileries, and come through the lap banner. You did it! Félicitations!
I don’t speak French so it would be nice if Zwiftinsider had an audio description of the route properly pronouncing the buildings, sprints, and KOMs. Wouldn’t that be a great addition!!
There’s a Google for that.
Just add a Monty Crit Loop. That’s all we need. What’s that? Rebel Route, you say? Excellent!
This is exactly the sequence of finishing circuits taken by the 2026 Tour de France stage 21.
except they do normal champs laps instead of the figure 8s we have here for some reson
“La Boucle” is the Zwift route that matches the TdF finishing circuit I think…
Another route with loops to extend length. Surprising it wasn’t that boring on the way the 100km. Zwif needs to get more 100mk routes that aren’t repetitive.
Yeah, it kinda feels like the zwift boss said to the route creator “here are 10km of new roads in paris, you need to create 8 new routes” “but that isn’t enough road to create more than 4-5 routes” “8 routes! don’t come back until you’ve got them” “okay…”