rhône alpes

Region of exchanges since the antique, Rhone-Alps possess an original heritage, composite and amazingly living. Here, history is everywhere present and fortunes are infinite: an exceptional patrimonial site, museums, castles or religious buildings, the entire region is a sweet invitation to the discovery. A Gallo-Roman vestige in odd churches, an old district in medieval villages, and every site carries the print of the civilizations that visited it, live and shaped.
It is why the harmony and the balance of the region are to these point singulars, subtle mixture of tradition and vanguard.

THE PRINCIPAL REGIONS
Grenoble : City of every panorama !
Set in the green and white case of the alpine massif, Grenoble is a city of art that shelters, in the heart of the old city, one of the most prestigious museums of the European fine arts,
Saint-étienne : the Green city
Two steps from the famous throats of the Loire, Saint Etienne is a big city of culture. Here, you will navigate between prestigious past and artistic vanguard!
Th Dombes : the bird's paradise...
From a mystery to another
Low horizons, ponds of uncertain strands and omnipresent vegetation... The Dombes is a fully-fledged "country", remarkable, of changing skiec. Where more than two hundred aquatic bird species reside, in the side of the men that works in exchangec. No far from there, perched to the summit of a hill surrounded of battlements, Pirogues is a village of a charm and a medieval blade intact. Taste the illusion to live out of the time...

HERE THE FAIRIES BENT ON THE NATURE....
In Rhone-Alps, the Nature offers what it has more beautiful, rarer and more elusive: its infinity wealth. Big lakes, happiness of the colours of the south, verdant countries or restful ponds, here the diversity always triumphs perched Villages, farms of yesteryear, medieval architecture... the cultures have the character of the men who shaped them!
Countries in soils, unusual traditions in picturesque discoveries and traditional kitchens in local handicrafts, every site tells a multitude of history. Open your eyec... and stretch your ears!

COUNTRY OF LAVENDERC... CHER-A-GIONO
With its haughty and colourful hills, where sit villages and castles, the south of Drôme has paces of Italy. In addition, of the singing accents! Breathe, intoxicate yourselves of the fragrances of lavenders and enjoy this peaceful country, and the olive treec. Many times celebrated by Giono, the Provencal Drôme offers an amazingly blue sky, a more luminous stone and a more colourful accent.

THE REGION OF LATISSIMUS LAKES
Every Rhone Alpine lake, surrounded with majestic alpine massifs, offers pure water. A paradise to initiate, to improve or to beat some records in veil, funboard or... paddle boat! In addition, the opportunity to bathe in very beautiful waters to the sumptuous decor heart. Besides, every village or hamlet around the Geneva lakes, the Bourget, Annecy, sharp weasel or Paladru, change, to the beautiful days, in station of The "big lakes" are as synonymous of a lot of "summer vacation!"

CALM DAYS OF A PROTECTED NATURE…
In love with the big spaces, aware hikers in quest of liberty... the summits of the Vanoise, the Oisans or the MONT-BLANC are real paradisec. A paradise that, to the rhythm of the summer, change of face and colour. A paradise that brings closer you of the sky and the sun. Villages in scattered hamlets to the detour of a trail, high trays blown of the Vercors, a preserved nature offers itself to you, to the will of your desirec. Rafting on the lsere or paragliding in the sky from Savoy, fishing in torrents of altitude or VTT in the high pastures, to you to choose!
With two National Parks, 6 Natural Parks and 28 Reserves, Rhone-Alps present the richest European concentration of fauna and protected flora. Since the Cases - vast of the European national parks - until the Vercors, while passing by the Baugeses, you will surprise the chamoises and marmots flowing of the calm dayc...

BIG PANORAMAS
Big chalky cliffs, throats deep and numerous cascades, you are in Charterhouse... High trays, combes and majestic circuses, mysterious underground cave classified among the most beautiful of Europe, here you are in the Vercorc... Vast case rich in fauna and in flora, there you are in the massif of the Baugeses, where the villages as the men don't lack a character... green Mountain to the pouring pentus, long valleys where transmit itself the recipe of the cheese of Beaufort secretly, welcome in the Beaufort Ain, discreet neighbour of the prestigious Mont-Blanc.

Coup-De-Cœur village of mountain
Since always, the seasons rhythmize the life of the highlanderc.
Summer, shortly after the rise in the high pastures, the villages reveal an authenticity and a charm of an unsuspected sweetnesc.
The spring passed by there and the mountain raised its hottest colorc. It is the moment to stop in the Valley-D'Abondance, in Arêches-Beaufort, in Venosc or in Bonneval; as many villages of which the architecture, the scents and the men are sources of Surprising discoveriec.

MOUNTAINS THAT SING PROVENCE
In the south, the mountain has the colors and the Provencal accents: in the massif of the Baronies, no far from the Ventoux mount, the grapevines fields, olive trees and lavender stop to the doors of the walled villagec. In the Diois, on the outskirts of the forest of Saou, the walnut-trees maintain the southern aspect of the plains and small hillc. Finally, in the Cévennes from Ardèche, the chestnuts draw a farming landscape where sings the cicadac.

SEE THE EYES OFthe SNOW SHINING IN THE NIGHT...
Welcome in the biggest skiable domain of the world! Ski in family, big domains, villages of charm, Nordic ski, news slipc... In Rhone-Alps, the funs of the mountain will be filled the authentic sites undoubtedly and will be preserved are numerous and the pleasures of snow accessible to all. Taste them then without restriction and open the eyes well: the panoramas are multiple and infinite!

GASTRONOMY AND MOUNTAIN....
Rustic, traditional and domestic, the gastronomy of High Mountain is nevertheless fine and varied! After a long skiing day, the butcher's shop of the soil opens the appetite, the fondues and the raclettes comfort... and the whites of Savoie put the ambiance!

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