Sports and leisure activities Rhône-Alpes

An open-air swimming pool heated to 28°C, the Aquaparc has the largest outdoor pool in the Rhône-Alpes region (1,200^m2), a paddling pool and a giant slide for hours of play in the cool water. Built in a green setting, it is undoubtedly the flagship attraction of the Vallée Bleue site. More than a swimming pool, it is a real leisure area where bathers can sunbathe and play ball games (volleyball) and rackets. Aquagym classes are also held there.

Your papilles, your tabliers, your pots! Here are some interesting proposals. Montélimar's gourmet restaurant offers formulas for the birthday of your small children (from 4 to 10 children with the help of a mom) to organize a home snack with cake and activity for children. We bring you the previously chosen cake, the children take part in a cooking workshop and during cooking, the chef turns into a facilitator to orchestrate games (especially around flavours and food balance, as long as you do!). The little guys left with the dish they cooked. Cooking courses (without the birthday, so no candles!) are also offered to groups of children. Courses are also available to adolescents and of course adults. For small gourmands, the groups are reduced to a maximum of 5 participants. History to keep control of places, ingredients and chocolate melted!

Jump into the water and into the eddies of an artificial river, a space reserved for initiates, for lovers of extreme sensations, for great dives into the torrents and waterfalls on board a kayak - and for even more fun in a freestyle kayak -, rafting as a team or in hydrospeed for the solos. The course alternates between fast parts and recovery zones. This space also offers various white water training programs (courses, baptisms, training courses), equipment rental and sales. Sensations guaranteed.

INTERSPORT FUN RIDE is a ski rental service. The store offers a wide selection of ski and snowboard equipment, suitable for all levels and sizes. Customers can also benefit from personalized advice from our competent and professional staff.

The family of the writer Charles Exbrayat used to spend their summers in Tarentaise. The landscapes of Pilat, and more particularly those surrounding the village, inspired the novelist. This path marked out by the Pilat Regional Park is dedicated to him. Take the direction of Prarouet then the tarmac road on the right, follow the road for 100 m, cross to reach the hamlet of Curtil and the Furan valley. Follow the forest track and take a path on the right which goes up to the Côte des Pins from where you will reach Tarentaise.

Need some oxygen after this long period of shooting in your apartment? Go to the Domaine Le Bessat, in a preserved nature, to breathe a pure and invigorating air. At the Maison du Parc in Pélussin or at the Syndicat d'Initiative in Le Bessat, you will find brochures of communal paths, many of which are around Le Bessat. Also, the mountain bike topo-guide and its dozens of circuits of all levels or a description of about twenty loops on foot. Walks to be done as soon as the first rays of sunshine appear. And for the more athletic, there is the possibility of a trail.

Signposted itinerary on the banks of the river Argental, which looks like a visit to pre-industrial archaeology with the testimony left by the th century sawmill remains and mills.

In the opposite direction of a watch, this 7,3 km circuit climbs, from the city garden, on the Planbourgoin plateau. The plateau is sparse but rich, because looking for plenty of wild orchids. Since Roman times, he has been a Bourgoin. In the Middle Ages, Beauregard Castle, now in ruins, was the fortress of lords until the middle of the th century. In 1347, it was described as a fortress well guarded.

This aquatic centre will delight the whole family with its 3 areas: aquatic, relaxation and fitness. A swimming pool for swimming laps, a large play pool with a slide and counter-current swimming, a paddling pool for the little ones... But also a fitness centre with saunas, hammam and whirlpool... and also a weight room and fitness classes! Everything for relaxation and fitness! The Eden restaurant offers good value for money cuisine, with a buffet of starters which is worth a visit to regain your strength.

Departure in Hières on Amby at the stop of the coaches, crossing of D 65 e and D 52 a. Markup: red. 8,25 km. Duration: 3 h.

Departure between Balme and Hières-sur-Amby at the intersection of D 65 and D 52 c. Markup: red. 10 km. Duration: 3 h.

This discovery tour of Crémieu takes you on a 52-stop tour (house, church, gateway...) of the streets and monuments of this medieval town. Guided tour on Sunday afternoons. Crémieu is also an area open to nature and ideal for all kinds of hikes. Numerous signposted trails allow you to discover the local flora and fauna. Brochures on sale at the Crémieu tourist office for family outings.

Want to get some fresh air? Two circuits are proposed around Grézieu. One of 7 km, the other of 9 km. The first one has 70% of unsealed paths and passes by the Gimond stream, Moulin-Berry, the Borbonne pond, the Fouillat and the Tavernier. Along the way, you can see the salting factories and beautiful viewpoints. The second route (60% unpaved roads) takes you to Clémençon, le Sorlin, les Brosses, le Gazanchon, les Bruyères and la Combette. The road goes around the Gimond dam.

Moucheurs can also be fun, close to Lake Bourget, on mythical rivers such as the Guiers, Arc or Chéran. This professional guide offers courses and fishing trips to mouche and natural baits in Savoie and the departments bordering Isère and Ain. Serious, user-friendly and passion for the program along trout and water rivers.

The Chapdes battery battery is known to amateurs at national level for the quality of their music. In 2013, it will celebrate its 100 years. She is also a music school and the quality of her teaching allows her students to have many awards. The School of Music, in its present form or in the former form of the Jeanne d'arc School of Music, carries out several events each year in very different forms: Musical tales, music festivals, concerts, hearings, internships, teachers'concert…

A journey in the trees.

In the heart of a pine forest, you'll find six courses of different levels and 700 meters of giant zip lines, including one 410 meters above the lake, the longest in the department. The more adventurous will appreciate the new black course with 12 workshops. For children, there's a beautiful tree house area with nets and slides without harnesses, including two new 15-step white courses. Reservations can be made for children's birthdays, seminars, bachelor parties, etc. Swimming permitted.

The association brings together people of all ages and backgrounds around the game and the privileged moment it creates. The Maison des Jeux hosts workshops in schools, neighborhood houses and retirement homes. It allows you to discover ancestral games from around the world. Every Wednesday for years, games are held on the association's premises. Membership entitles you to discounts in certain shops, and free for activities. In addition to the numerous animations throughout the year, on the occasion of the Festival des Contre-Dives in summer and everywhere in Auvergne, La Maison des Jeux puts on the rental of games and can animate your evenings.

This sports complex dedicated to athletics was inaugurated in 2002. It hosts departmental, regional and national competitions. Several French indoor track and field championships have allowed the best athletes to compete on the eight lanes of the 60-meter track and on the vault. Among them, Olympic pole vault gold medalist Renaud Lavillenie, crowned French champion in 2016 in the hall that can seat up to 2,700 people. This is also where the Clermont Auvergne Athletics Club trains for competitions. Gymnastics and fencing events, conferences and training in the field of sports are also held here.

Atypical by its implantation but wise and real advice to equip its "sweet home" with listening equipment up to your demand. Pascal Marie, nyman nyman, gets you around a good coffee and listens to you before getting into his listening room. Thus, it advises you to make an appointment before you come, because everything is listening, it takes the time necessary and receives only one audiophile at a time. Be sure: The small ring of the door will not resonate when you are between good ears. Explain the configuration of your room, the equipment that you may already have, the sound you are looking for and the music you enjoy listening and of course your budget: Pascal Marie will guide you to the most appropriate electronic equipment. Some brands he likes: Cambridge, Onkyo, Myryad, McIntosh, Audio Research for amps, CD and DVD readers; Tannoy, Monikov Audio, Magnepan, Paradiym, Velodyne for speakers. An audio specialist, he also advises you to bring the best sound to your home theater installation.

For 30 years, Takamaka has been offering exceptional moments in the great outdoors. The first branch of this outdoor sports specialist was born in this suburb of Annecy. Every day, every season, Takamaka's passionate professionals take us on adventures to the region's most beautiful spots. In winter: snowshoeing, dog sledding, ski joëring, snowmobiling, sleeping under an igloo... and the rest of the year: paragliding and hot-air ballooning. Paragliding flights with or without acrobatics, according to your wishes. Outdoor equipment rental - bikes, via ferrata kits, snowshoes... - all year round. We also specialize in incentive and teambuilding activities.

Support: windsurfing, catamaran and dinghy.

Support: optimist, 420, Yearline.

Support: optimist, dinghy, multihull, kayaking, windsurfing.

All facilities and services, at the historic sailing club in Annecy. Restaurant. Support: optimist, dinghy, @, people with disabilities.

A message for sports enthusiasts and the curious in search of a different experience. Here are the features of this adventure: a length of 600 meters, a difference in altitude of 235 meters, a starting point situated at an altitude of 660 meters, with a course lasting 2 to 3 hours and varying in difficulty. Crossing the cables at the top, the view over Thônes is breathtaking. It's advisable to make this ascent in the morning to take advantage of the cooler temperatures.

The undeniable advantage of roller is that once the pair pair bought with the protections, of course, it is that you can drive… Yes, but here, rolling is not doing roller! We still need to learn to slow down, turn, slow down, speed up, get out, move, etc. This is where Flow altitude, which offers courses, alone, family, group, to better discover the practice of this sport, which is useful to the city.

Promote art, painting, sculpture and even poetry through workshops (engraving, portrait, engraving…) and meetings. In November, the association organizes an art salon in the town hall of Meythet.

Various activities for amateurs, all afternoon information to culture service - animation of town hall.

To fish in the lakes and torrents of Haute-Savoie, it is necessary to have a fishing card that can be purchased at specialized shops and some tobacco merchants. Around the lake, we will visit the 8 depositaries, including the Camping campsite at Doussard. For Lake Annecy, two types of maps: " by boat "and" on the edge "whose prices vary according to the age of the holder and the duration.

This scholarly research of its own ancestors is now an activity in constant progress, and this is why new amateurs have every interest in contacting these specialists at the Annecy-Geneva antenna in order to exchange useful information and training.

A Bernard Maillet, we must not tell him about the fishing! This enthusiast of lakes and rivers knows how to attract fish. Impressive choice of lures of all shapes and colours. It is lost in flies and hooks. As for the worms, they are waiting in a fridge, the next fisherman. Cuissards, waterproof technical footwear, multipoches vests, fishing gear… Whether it's in the lakes of the sector or in stormy rivers, every fisherman can find his happiness in this welcoming shop where you can find the appropriate advice.

Professionals in the service of fisheries, all fisheries: in lake, river and mountain. On-measurement for probe fishing and all kinds of fishing items, with prices adapted according to use, for amateurs or professionals. Here, it is serious and always courteous advice is a good omen!

This large installation "all time" made a great contribution to the progress of the bowls in Annecy. It is normally used by the two disciplines, bowls and Lyon.

Initiation for 8 years, leisure and competition, lake and river exits, with discovery of wildlife all year round.

LA's DJC is many ways to grow, express and make sport: of the circus, of kung-fu and of climbing a wall in verticality. Artificial routes adapted to all ages and at all levels in safety, to take insurance and then leave on the cliffs around. Children, teenagers, adults, everyone is climbing on the 50 routes proposed with numerous timetables.

Inevitably, a club rising, since it is the CAF, the French Alpine Club, whose hotlines take place on the 1 st, 3rd and 5 ^th Thursday of the month from 19 h to 20 h at the 1 _^st floor of the Maison des Associations de Meythet. In the programme, group outings to discover the region's mountains with walking or snowshoe hiking, climbing, hiking skiing, ice waterfall, mountain biking… And we forget that. We take a licence quickly and we start.

The Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional (CRR) is housed in the former bishop's palace of Annecy, and dates from the late ^18th century. It's not unusual to pass along rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau and hear the sound of music escaping through the windows. The CRR's vocation is to provide music, dance and theater teaching, combined with dissemination and creation. This teaching takes a variety of forms, from introductory courses for amateurs to professional training. Cultural season from October to June.

The attraction of this "adventure school", open to the very young, located in the heart of the old village of Le Châtelard, offers us the opportunity, whatever our level, to explore the wonders of a massif that reveals itself beneath our feet. Accompanied by guides, participants simply let themselves be enveloped by the grandeur of nature. For those in search of more daring adventures, Terres d'Altitude offers excursions into the region's tumultuous waters and rock faces! All necessary equipment can be rented on site, including via ferrata equipment.

In the company of a mountain professional, you can discover the Beaufortain in snowshoes or cross-country skiing to meet an exceptional fauna and flora. And if the adventure is going to tempt you, Michel Bich, the former high-level ski rider in the background, the creator of Nature and Mountains almost 30 years ago, can take you much further. on cross-skis in Lapland or Nepal for a dream trekking.

ARC Aventures, based in Arc 1800, is your companion for unforgettable sporting adventures in the snow and mountains. Its ski school offers a wide range of individual and group sessions, supervised by instructors and guides specialized in skiing, snowboarding, off-piste and ski touring, as well as snowshoeing excursions. The pedagogical approach is tailored to the needs of each individual, with the absolute aim of ensuring the progress and success of students and customers, guaranteeing unforgettable winter vacations!

The International White Water Base is a very technical site. This is where the Club de Canoë Kayak Haute Isère is located, which can be contacted for summer services, bivouacs, white water swimming, etc. The thrills are there on this particularly moving site... but there is something for all levels: you can discover, initiate or even improve your canyoning skills. You have to have a strong heart, be an adventurer in your soul and love water... the rest is just happiness.

Their slogan: the river passionately! And these river runners are immersed in strong sensations. Rafting, bottler-raft, hydrospeed, swimming in deep water, canyon descent to discover all the waters of the region. L'Isère in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, the rapids of Aime, the water-Rouses canyons, Pussy, the waterfall of Angon (near Annecy), Montmin (near Annecy)… And of course you are framed by patented professionals. They lend combinations, neoprene slippers, vests, helmets… Discovery or development courses. Cool, the junior descent in rafting rafting for 8 years. Last Council: you need to know swimming!

A beautiful beach on the Lake Aiguebelette with many activities. Boat rental with pedals with slides, canoes, electric boats, boats and water games including large diving board of 3 m. A beach where you can exercise physically excluding with beach volleyball. Shade for the white skins and babies, solarium for those who want to have pretty colours. The new: a premium space with deckchairs and parasols for children (from 3 to 12 years old), access to boats (Le Mississippi).

Close to the port, the beach at Aiguebelette-le-Lac is a small oasis with lifeguard surveillance during the summer season, and a picnic area. This stretch of sand also offers a variety of water sports equipment and boats for hire. Open from April onwards, it offers an early taste of summer, allowing visitors to savor the surrounding landscape. The lake is distinguished by its unique turquoise-blue color, offering a soothing visual spectacle.

Lac du Bourget offers the ideal setting for a wide variety of water sports: canoeing, kayaking, paddling, sailing, catamaran sailing and much more. Rent equipment and discover the countryside from a whole new angle, whether for a relaxing day out or a welcome escape. Expert advice from passionate professionals is always a plus. And sometimes, for the lucky ones, you can take advantage of happy hours on rentals!

With Antipodes you'll be looked after by certified, experienced professionals with in-depth knowledge of the mountains. Their expertise will give you the security and peace of mind you need for your skiing, paragliding or helicopter adventures. With Antipodes Zeb, there's no need to go through an intermediary! They're warm and friendly. Available 7 days a week, they'll answer all your questions about the activities and services on offer. Fun and thrills!

Le Morel is a dynamic place where a multitude of aquatic activities await visitors. Discover a variety of pools with water slides, a water sports area, a children's play area and a refreshing waterfall. In addition to indoor and outdoor games, courses are available for children and seniors. A golf course and sauna are also on offer. During the summer, the bar and restaurant remain open, adding a friendly touch to your getaway.

Husky Adventure offers harnessed sleigh rides for all ages and experience levels. Participants have the opportunity to learn to drive their own sled under the guidance of experienced instructors, adding an interactive and educational dimension to the adventure. It's also possible to sit comfortably in the sleigh and let yourself be driven by a professional musher. An unforgettable activity that can be extended over several days, thanks to the many packages offered by Husky Adventure.