Vers St-Etienne- Vers Tullins de-St-Geoirs Vers La Côte- St-André Morette Vers Lyon Vers Grenoble Vers Izeaux Vers St-Quentin- Cras sur-Isère Vatilieu Serre-Nerpol Chasselay Roybon Chantesse Notre-Dame- Forêt de ChambaranLac de Roybon de-l’Osier Roybon Varacieux L’Albenc Vers Roybon Vinay Étang Murinais de pêche La voie du Tram* Durée2h - Distance7,9 km Tunnel Dénivelé positif160 m 620 m Grand Grange 680 m Dionay La Chapelle Redon Rovon St-Gervais 490 m Beaulieu Pinet Le Cul de 507 m Bessins la Perette Chapelle 490 m Saint-Jean La Bâtie le Fromental Chevrières Têche Compagnons St-Appolinard Cognin- L’Enclos de pèlerinage* 441 m Durée1h30 - Distance5 km les-Gorges Dénivelé positif120 m St-Vérand Étang de pêche St-Antoine-Miripili l’Abbaye Vers Saint-Marcellin St-MarcellinST-SAUVEUR Vers Romans-sur-Isère MALLEVAL IZERON *Rendez-vous à l’Oce de Tourisme pour plus d’informations COL DE ROMÉYÈRE sur les itinéraires pédestres Chatte Montagneautour de Saint-Antoine-l’Abbaye. Étang ST-PIERRE- de pêche Vers Saint-Marcellin Vinay DE-CHÉRENNES ST-BONNET- DE-CHAVAGNE BEAUVOIR- Château de l’Arthaudière EN-ROYANS LA SÔNE ST-ROMANS PLACES TO EXPLORE LESS THAN 15 MINUTES FROM PONT-EN-ROYANS RENCUREL A POTTED history ... Monteux north 9 PRESLES COULMES FOREST ST-HILAIRE- 10 west east ST-ANDRÉ- Walk to Saint- To Patente / Le Faz ÉQUIPEMENTS POUR LES SPORTS André-en-Royans* south É Start rue du temple in Pont-en-Royans DE MONTAGNE ET OUTDOOR P DU-ROSIER X E EN-ROYANS Return trip 3 hrs 30 - Total distance S E S R 11.8 km - Height gain 425m U VALENCE Choranche Caves walk * O V E R B C O R S ST-LATTIER 448 m 8 , Start at the car park in Choranche - Total distance K Pont-en-Royans 337 m La vieille église Presles clis E GRENOBLE Chemin de Bise R 420 m 6 km - Return trip 2 hrs 15 - Height gain 436 m R O l’Abbaye 826 m U St-Antoine St-Marcellin Le Mûrier Gournier caves N , Y C H A M B A R A E N ST-JUST- VERCORS REGIONAL R Voiron 13 T NATURAL PARK L U A Vienne 14 B DE-CLAIX 2 560 m I To Villard-de-Lans, Rencurel & H Col de Toutes Aures La Ranconnière T ST-HILAIRE- La Baudière CHORANCHE the ski domain of the Coulmes © LYON (Col de Romeyère) LA GARE 278 m AUBERIVES- 260 m PONT-EN-ROYANS 7 342 m 260 m Chabaudière 3 La Gerrassière Bournillon Vers Romans- EN-ROYANS power station 11 EDF dam Moulin Marquis sur-Isère waterfall 238 m CHÂTELUS 1 Porte de The name Pont-en-Royans is derived directly from the bridge that spans the River Bourne here. A bridge between two rocky piers has stood Villeneuve 852 m 12 Bournillon GR9 to Choranche * caves here since the Early Middle Ages. The inns, stables and shops that sprang up afterwards soon formed a village inS itsT-N ownA right,ZAIRE- with records of a Porche du Bournillon walk * 266 m Start Pont Picard - Total distance 8.4 km priory here as early as the 11th century. In the 12th century, the Béranger family built a small castle at the top of the rocky spur on the right bank Le Pylone Start EDF Bournillon car park at Châtelus To Return trip 2 hrs - Height gain 59 m 2925 ROUTE DU VERCORS - 38680 AUBERIVES EN ROYANS - 04 76 36 02 67 Vers Valence EN-ROYANS La Côte Total distance 2 km - Return trip 1 h / overlooking the narrow gorge, adopting the motto “I hold sway over the bridge”. By the 16th century, the timber trade, the castle’s protection Saint-Nazaire-en-Royans 272 m Vers Romans-sur-Isère La Cascade Blanche 1 hr 30 - Height gain 546 m and the ingenuityBourg- of the townspeople had given rise to the prosperous cliffside town of Pont, which became the political and economic capital 202 m of the Royans region. de-Péage STE-EULALIE- Romans Cascade blanche walk * 1 km EN-ROYANS One of the firstet V alenceforms of commerce developed by the people here was the transport and trade of timber, with labourers felling trees in the Start Pont Picard - Return trip 1 hr 30 Total distance 4.5 km - Height gain 89 m forests of the Vercors and transporting the trunks down to Pont-en-Royans by donkey- and muleback. Upstream of Pont-en-Royans, it was not 5 possible to float timber down the river. At Pont-en-Royans, the trunks were fastened together into rafts, which were then steered downstream 4 ÉCHEVIS by the loggers. The timber was transported down the Rhône all the way to Beaucaire in the South of France, where it was used to built the To Thomas-en-Royans * Further information on hiking 6 ships of the day, known as galleys. Pont-en-Royans has thus always been a place of transit and a strategic trading post, with produce from the Saint-Jean-en-Royans routes around Pont-en-Royans To la Chapelle-en-Vercors Saint-Laurent-en-Royans at the Tourist Oce lowlands changing hands for mountain goods. The watermill on Place de la Halle, thought to have been built shortly after the Revolution on the Vassieux-en-Vercors site of the Sassenage fortified house, powered a wool manufactory where the wool was beaten, carded and spun. The millwheel was lost in the flood of 1851. In 1858 the building was converted into a woodturning factory by Claude Mary Mayet, who had emigrated to Pont from the Jura. isine ma u is His business flourished, at its height employing a workforce of 48 before moving to Sainte-Eulalie-en-Royans in 1902. The building remained in c o ie n a r V use as a finished timber store but caught fire in 1912 and was completely destroyed by bombing in 1944. Today, the multimedia library and La so many exciting things to see and do ! g in R k PONT-EN-ROYANS e a o o Halle contemporary art centre are housed in part of the old watermill. l ho m e c Get up close and personal with farm animals and 1 8 Tasty home cooking in an old farm of the Vercors Today, this medieval village forms the western gateway to the Vercors Regional Nature Park at the bottom end of the Bourne Gorge. It features experience a working organic farm next to Presles cliffs architecture found nowhere else in the Dauphiné region: cliffside houses with colourful facades ‘hanging’ over the gorge. The village, which was Ferme du Clos - 210 chemin du Clos 38680 Châtelus Le Dragon Vert - Chemin de Jalline, Rte de Pont-en-Royans listed as a historical monument in 1944, drew praise from the 19th-century author Stendhal. Its architectural attractions include the town walls, & +33 (0) 4 76 36 10 94 - +33 (0) 6 01 35 20 49 - www.lafermeduclos.fr 38680 Presles - +33 (0) 4 76 36 12 96 - www.ledragonvert.fr sightseeing walk sightseeing cobbled streets, terraced gardens and of course the bridge. The walk up to the old Trois Châteaux castle keep rewards you with a sweeping Buy delicious farm pork directly from the producer Enjoy a great range of water activities in unspoilt view over the Royans region. The Water Museum tells the story of how hydroelectricity came to the village. 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