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The Col de l'Aiguillon is a quiet, almost secret crossing. A steep little road in the Jura of canton Vaud, it climbs to 1,293 metres between the border village of L'Auberson and Baulmes on the plain below. This is pastoral country, a ribbon of asphalt winding up through forest and high meadow at gradients touching 18%, beneath the pale limestone wall of the Aiguilles de Baulmes, a cliff prized by climbers.
And it keeps a charming secret at its foot. L'Auberson, where the western climb begins, belongs to Sainte-Croix, the cradle of the music box and known the world over for that delicate craft, and its Musée Baud guards one of the great collections of automata and musical machines. So you climb from a village of clockwork song into the silence of the heights, where the reward is a wide panorama over the surrounding peaks and valleys. Modest in fame but generous in beauty, the Aiguillon is one of the Jura's most rewarding climbs for a cyclist.
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