Archaeology handicrafts and science and technology sites to visit Rhônes-Alpes

The easiest way is to drive by car to the parking lot near a farm at the top of the village (at the foot of the old ski trail). From here you can take the path that climbs in the forest or directly the old ski trail. The normal path then follows the old ski trail, which will have to be left on the right to take a trail that walks in sous and then in pastures. The summit offers a magnificent view of the Grenoble agglomeration and all the surrounding areas.

By climbing over Chambéry, on the slopes of the mountains, you can understand photovoltaic with this plant which produces 1 000 m ² of sensors 110 000 KWh per year. 20% of public network consumption and part of pumps in tanks where the sensors are installed. Panels explain the operation and give live production and CO 2 emissions avoided. You can continue the walk on the 16 hectares of the forest of the Mountains which has a rare Mediterranean vegetation in Savoy. A sports course and a signposted course complete all of this.

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…

The nature guides of the General Council show you the life of the marsh, its fauna and flora.

Passing travellers to Villeneuve-de-Berg are already in a glowing hamlet called «Les Mines», often without knowing what history this curious quarter of Saint-Priest was attached. A story that marked very much its red footprint - the colour of iron ore - the entire Privas region in the th century, the "industrial" history that was quickly wanted to erase memories and landscape. It was in 1843 that the first concession of the Privas basin was used on a deposit of high-quality iron ore which allowed local and regional industry to develop through the transformation of this raw material, which was not found in Saint-Etienne or Alès - coal. At that time, we are fighting for the best concessions, including the one in Saint-priest that came into operation in 1849. A particularly extensive concession where almost 500 miners and workers were employed to extract nearly 4 million tons of iron ore through a century of exploitation. Iron ore, channelled to the Pouzin blast furnace, then crossed Privas into more smashing the road - think that diligence took twelve hours to connect Le Pouzin to the Prefecture! For this reason, the Paris-Lyon-Marseille company was awarded a concession to build the first railway of the Ardèche linking the Valley of the Rhone to Saint-Priest. But depletion of the deposit, competition from open skies in Africa and the disastrous «tourism» image of its mines inevitably lead to their final closure in 1950. With a strong emphasis on the landscape with quarries of marne used to backfill galleries, leaving a gigantic built heritage, wells, chevalements, factories and an important cultural heritage - preserved until now at the Ardéchoise Earth Museum - mines still seem to have never existed! And you must venture through abundant vegetation or along the old track dismantled to discover the deposits of the past, such as this impressive mine sink No. 9 classified historic monument and completely submerged in trees. To discover this exciting history, the basement of the region and the sites of exploitation, you will be contacted with interest the Geological Society of the Ardèche which has its headquarters in Saint-Priest.

How to enhance the heritage of a city while offering families fun together? We search for, we solve riddles, we eat good local products, we approach a territory differently. Two circuits exist today: On the diois sheep track and travel in the heart of Die.

On the track of the Croq'Images. Pleasant and fun walk to discover Saint-Geoire otherwise. Conduct your inquiry through the smart discovery kit (game cards, explanations, illustrated plan…). On the way for an unexpected half day!

This site is protected and has been officially classified as the Area of Protection of Architectural Heritage, Urban and Landscape in 1997. Many vestiges of human occupation dating back to prehistoric times were discovered. Fossils were found in different layers of the basement reminiscent of the presence of the sea in the secondary age, including a ichtyosaure, a fossil reptile of two hundred million years.