Things to see and do Ain

The Pays de Gex Tourist Office in Ferney-Voltaire is currently closed. However, visitors can visit the agencies in Gex (10 km away), Mijoux (40 km away) and Lélex (50 km away) for tourist information. Reviews from previous visitors indicate that the Tourist Office staff are professional, friendly and available to provide information and advice to visitors. The Tourist Office also offers guided tours of the town and evening walks to discover Ferney-Voltaire's history and heritage.

Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne is a medieval city of character well worth a visit. Visitors can wander through the town's cobbled streets, admire the old market halls and flower-bedecked bridges, and discover the Dombes ponds on a horse-drawn carriage ride. Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne also offers activities for children, such as horse racing at the local racecourse. Art lovers can visit the town's many craftsmen and craftswomen, and birdwatchers can discover the birds of the Dombes at the observatories. For a bite to eat, there are several restaurants serving Dombes specialities.

This museum, located in the former town hall and school of Cuisat, highlights the local heritage and traditions of this region of the Ain. Several exhibition rooms retrace the life of yesteryear, and the collections focus on showing the close relationship that man has had with domestic nature and flora, particularly local varieties of cultivated plants. An emphasis on the living heritage and its environment with a garden and orchard with an exceptional collection. The museum organizes tours adapted to young visitors and more broadly to families with workshops and themed exhibitions.

Visitors with the sea foot will be able to embark on this one day getaway from Trévoux towards Pont-de-Vaux. Travelling through the Saône and touching at the passage two locks, the day of navigation is punctuated by a meal and ends by visiting the museum Chintreuil in Pont-de-Vaux. Other short stroll (2 h) are also organised from Trévoux. Information at the Tourist Office.

140 km circuit through the coniferous forests, picturesque villages, lakes and pastures surrounding Bobois-Lompnes.

If its castle was abandoned in 1601, the town of Jasseron is still dominated by the dungeon and some walls are still visible today. Several circuits allow to discover on foot, the city and its landscapes, its washing machines, its church, its reservoir, Notre-Dame-des-Rhone chapel, or the calvary of the hamlet of sanciat. A heritage developed since 1973 by the Friends of Jasseron, an association that has published a book depicting the 2 000 years of history of the commune, for sale to the village's press.

Meeting with wildlife! As a matter of course, it is quite likely that you will take a few beautiful specimens on the path of swans, pêcheurs, mallard or wild stilts that have settled in the surrounding area. hard to get tired of the show! However, flora also has serious assets of seduction: iris, house, damasonies, wicked renoncules… What no longer know where to give your head! As for the circuit, you will cross over the hamlets of the Sablonnière, Migeline or Verfey, before passing on to the Chemin Castle.

Tariff: free.

Duration: 2 h.

Difficulty: .

If you live Bressolles, probably have you ever participate in the famous "days pies" around the ovens? Well, we offer this time you a quite different way - but equally friendly - to discover the architectural heritage of the village: a pedestrian loop. You will discover successively the ovens of Paillot, Verfey, the Main Street, the oven in France, those of Bichon and Léchère, then you can finish by oven in the Bonnet, before joining church square, your starting point. Restored at the end of the last century, it deserves a penetrates; on the way to admire its typical walls, made of pebbles, bricks and stones.

Price: free.

Distance: 3.8 km away.

Problem: easy.