Things to see and do Drôme

The character is unique! If you visit its museum of the unusual, you will discover a cabinet of unlikely curiosities. As a bonus, you will learn everything about the life of the master of the house born in the mid-1920s in Montélimar, to a father... nougat maker. So far nothing original! Out of the nougat, Max became a painter and travelled, lived abroad, lived in Paris, met many famous and unfamous people and collected this collection that he now shares with the public. If as a painter, he has only one subject - the woman - as a collector he is eclectic! Nearly 10,000 eccentric pieces, inventoried in the Prévert style, are on display in about ten rooms: old pipes, gynaecological instruments, cigar rings, matchboxes, posters, bidets, personal objects that belonged to President Émile Loubet... The main curiosity is still the man, Max Manent, who accompanies your visit in his imagination and his past. The museum also houses the master's work and... his own coffin covered, like a crucifix, with a woman's body, arms crossed. The circle is complete. Some rooms should be closed to children.... Allow two hours for a visit.

For over 60 years, the Chaudron d'Or has been producing nougat in copper cauldrons with high quality products: lavender honey of Drôme, almonds of Spain, Sicilian pistachio, vanilla of Réunion. And that doesn't have a price! If it has one, it is still very reasonable for such quality. You are advised to visit the factory in order to treat your eyes and prepare your taste buds. We also love this, because while keeping the Pot, it innovates in communication and presentation. And under the language which festival! Let's take the tender nougats with fine chocolates, they are déclinent by black melting, moka, chocolate chocolate flavoured with orange. We also enjoy this incredible spread of nougat, developed by a better worker in France, the world's best-selling pastry champion, as well as the delicious reception in this gourmet house located in the city near the tourist office.

A fun discovery to make with your family, 3.5 km from the Ideal Palace. In this vast four-hectare space, the owner Alain Orcel has designed four giant labyrinths for nature lovers to discover more than 6,000 trees. Glycine, cypress or dinosaurs at stake. If you wish to explore the entire park, you will have to walk no less than 7 km.

The house has existed since 1949. You can visit both production sites. The original site Jean-Jaurès and the new N 7 factory, in the south of the city, in the industrial area of Fortuneau. Two production modes. The opportunity to discover the story of the Nougat nougat imported by the Greeks via Marseille sweet first to the walnut, named Nux gatum which will drift into nougo and then nougat. Sweet is formalized in Montélimar in 1701! Today Gerbe of gold among the great nougatiers of Montélimar. You can make provision for the boutique of the whole range of soft, craquants, white, black, enrobés or natures…

To note the fleas and granaries, one Sunday a month, which brings together 80 exhibitors, place of March 19, 1962, wine fairs and local products, not forgetting the weekly market on Friday where we can buy fishing or apples, in the beautiful season, at a good price.