Hiking Ain

This walk from Bellegarde-sur-Valserine is quite unusual. Unusual initially because the place is full of history: during the Second World War, more precisely between 1940 and 1942, Valserine served as border - hence the presence of the customs house early walk. Unusual then for its landscape: the river is sinking gradually under the rock, you get some waterfalls and sometimes even, disappears completely in the plains and chap; striking! Be careful if you are accompanied children: a certain caution is obligatory.

Price: free.

Duration: 2:15.

Problem: easy.

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.