Uncover Saint-pal-de-mons with Les Feuillantines

Le Grand Felletin is within everyone's reach in the cool, high-altitude woodlands. Hike n°1 in the "Annonay-Serrières" topographical guide on sale from the Ardèche Tourist Information Office.

A long, beautiful ride around the Cance valley hillside and the Chirat Blanc crests. Hike n°46 in the "Annonay-Serrières" topographical guide on sale from the Ardèche Tourist Information Office.

Saint Julien Vocance is the last village in the Cance valley. This accessible, shaded walk is a chance to see the sources of the RIver Cance with the help of educational panels. Hike no. 35 in the ‘Annonay-Serrières’ guidebook, on sale at the Ardèche Grand Air Tourist Office.

A long hike from St Pierre-sur-Doux or Lalouvesc, featuring pleasant forests and panoramic crests, and reserved for experienced hikers and mountain-bikers.

Around the picturesque village of St Pierre sur Doux, a little walk featuring some fine views over the unspoilt valleys all around. Very easy trail.

A long hike from St Pierre-sur-Doux or Lalouvesc, featuring pleasant forests and panoramic crests, and reserved for experienced hikers and mountain-bikers.

Leaving from Monestier to the highest point in Green Ardèche, Le Grand Felletin, this is a magnificent mountain hike. Hike n°45 in the "Annonay-Serrières" topographical guide on sale from the Ardèche Tourist Information Office.

From Vanosc to Monestier, explore the unspoilt Pinsole valley with its rich and varied flora and fauna. Hike n°43 in the "Annonay-Serrières" topographical guide on sale from the Ardèche Tourist Information Office.

Pleasant walk offering fine views over the Cance valley. Hike n°33 in the "Annonay-Serrières" topographical guide on sale from the Ardèche Tourist Information Office.

Located close to the Loire river, you are welcome in this wonderfull piece of nature where you can discover the foothills of the Auvergne Campsite located close to Saint-Etienne, beside the Loire River with the magnificent gorges as the setting. Mobile homes and chalets for rent, caravan and tent pitches for holiday stays. Plots can be booked for short, medium and long stays. Entertainment schedule. Nearby: fishing, leisure centre.

Detached late 19th century farmhouse in a small village near the Loire gorges with adjoining enclosed courtyard below (50 m²). Ground floor: living room-kitchen (TV, wood stove, Internet access), wc. 1st floor: 2 bedrooms (1 bed 140 each), 1 bedroom (2 beds 90), shower room, wc. Electric heating in supplement according to consumption. Wood for the stove provided in supplement: 15 €/week. Cleaning deposit: 70 €. Baby equipment: canvas bed, bathtub, high chair, booster seat. Independent garden - Garden furniture - Fenced area Nearby: Aurec at 3 km (medieval city, castle, outdoor activity resort with swimming, canoeing, mountain biking, hiking, all shops and services), Firminy and the heritage of Le Corbusier at 20 mn, Saint-Etienne at 30 mn. Very close to the Hermet ranch.

Take advantage of a room at Josiane's to rest or to make a stopover on your trip and enjoy all her attention to make the most of your stay. My house of the 60's is located in a very quiet subdivision with little traffic. It is close to the shops, to the retirement home of Aurec and to the banks of the Loire. You can park your car in the courtyard. The bedroom, on the first floor, is equipped with a 140cm bed (recent and comfortable bedding), a wall cupboard, an armchair and a console. You will have free access to the kitchen if you want to prepare your evening meal. Internet access.

A city within a city, that's a good idea. It was the idea of Le Corbusier, the visionary architect who needs no introduction. A stone's throw from Saint-Etienne, the Firminy-Vert site is a treat for connoisseurs and the curious alike: a multicoloured Unité d'Habitation, a rather bizarre cone-shaped church, a concave Maison de la Culture, an amphitheatre-style stadium and a swimming pool. You name it, it's Le Corbusier. It's beautiful and, what's more, it's full of juicy little anecdotes. Did you know that the Unité d'Habitation was his second largest building in the world? And that the windows of the Maison de la Culture were musical? And guess what constellation appears in the concrete of Saint-Pierre church? In short, come along to the site for a little lesson in creativity.

Very cosy 2 level gîte in part of owner's house 300m from little medium altitude mountain village to south of Pilat Regional Nature park. Separate entrance and covered terrace. Living room, fully fitted kitchen area, 3 bedrooms (double bed, 4 single beds), double sofa bed, 2 shower room, 2 WCs. Electric heating. Cot. Large shops 12km. Swimming pool (diam. 4.4m) shared with owners.

Gîte for groups on La Côte estate: 70 sq. m. (ground et 1st floors). Living room with fireplace and kitchen area, 14 bed dormitory, 2 showers, 2 washbasins, 2 WCs. Grounds of 300 sq. m. 70 sq. m. room for hire. Firminy 25km.

But what exactly is hidden inside this flying sauce, you might ask. La Rotonde is a laboratory for ideas and experiments in the scientific field. Its aim? To create, innovate, manipulate and interact! How? By offering fun workshops, intriguing exhibitions, debates, digital tools and even live shows. Rest assured, you won't find any bouncers on the door, and those without a scientific diploma to their name are not just accepted, but actively encouraged to come in!!! This is a place that's open to everyone: the general public, schools and also professionals and actual scientists. Astronomy, geography, social sciences, biology, technology, earth sciences: just some of the subjects that will no longer be a mystery to you! Ready for take-off?

Guns, ribbons and bikes. Right away, you don't see the connection, and that's normal. Come and take a tour of the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, and you'll understand. Ribbons, ribbon weaving equipments, warping machines, plates, fuses, bombardes, dandy horses, grand bi, derailleurs: when you come to visit our original permanent and temporary exhibitions, which are interactive, you will enjoy finding out about the region’s history as well as the history of those who have lived through it. At the museum of art and industry you can find out about ribbon weavers, who were ingenious technicians and masters of a complex engineering process. When you come in, you are entering a place which has retained the magic of its 150 years with poetic and up-to-date museography. It represents an opportunity to share a pleasurable visit. Both young and old can come to play, learn, be amazed, look and reflect!

Interested in a Do-It-Yourself science experience? Head for Explora. No boring science lessons here, just experiments for budding scientists of all ages: observe, think of something to try, then try it! Don’t expect perfect results: it’s by making mistakes in the lab that you gain experience. Do it the way engineers do! And in fact it’s La Rotonde, the Cultural, Scientific, Technical and Industrial Centre at the École des Mines engineering school in Saint-Étienne that is behind this educational lab. Whether your aim is to launch a rocket, make a light card, programme a space root, design an electronic instrument, like Einstein, we use recovered materials and our creative intelligence.

A city within a city, that's a good idea. It was the idea of Le Corbusier, the visionary architect who needs no introduction. A stone's throw from Saint-Etienne, the Firminy-Vert site is a treat for connoisseurs and the curious alike: a multicoloured Unité d'Habitation, a rather bizarre cone-shaped church, a concave Maison de la Culture, an amphitheatre-style stadium and a swimming pool. You name it, it's Le Corbusier. It's beautiful and, what's more, it's full of juicy little anecdotes. Did you know that the Unité d'Habitation was his second largest building in the world? And that the windows of the Maison de la Culture were musical? And guess what constellation appears in the concrete of Saint-Pierre church? In short, come along to the site for a little lesson in creativity.

Felletin is a chirat of stones which peaks at the top of the valley. We discover it a magnificent point of view on the Vocance Valley, Rhône and on the Alps in clear weather.

When the mist descends into the valley, you could easily believe you were in some Celtic land, so much does the castle perched up on the Rock remind you of legends from over the Channel. And yet you are still at the gateway to Le Forez and the castle, which now turns away its visitors (only the chapel is still open to visit), is the southern guardian of Saint Paul en Cornillon. Here you will find a complete range of legends of all kinds centred on the castle, the churches and even the belvedere (minus the bagpipes and ghosts). And you wouldn't think it, but that explains a lot. Family quarrels, impossible love stories (Charlotte de Suze and Robert de Jarjaye, a local version of Romeo and Juliette), tales of vendettas (complete with a manhunt and the murder of the Count of Le Forez), pillaging, fires. And you still haven't seen and heard it all. Impossible to leave this site with climbing to the top of the legendary Mont Fayn. Up there, you will find viewpoint indicator and an incredible view over the Loire Gorges (with the Le Pertuiset bridge in the background). Ah yes - you also risk hearing the giants talking - but don't worry, they are busy blacksmithing.

Opened in 1989, the Bicentenary Bridge which overhangs the Loire Gorges, definitively replaced all the other bridges which were too narrow and fragile to support daily traffic.

Roche-la-Molière, an open-air museum! Street art here is not ephemeral, nor does it adorn industrial wastelands or buildings awaiting demolition.

Located in a natural surrounding the church of St Pierre sur Doux opens its doors to admire its beautiful painted coffered ceiling ...

From this village, you can walk through the beautiful Taillard Forest and visit the orientation panel at the exceptional viewpoint overlooking Annonay.

The Col du Rouvey offers a pleasant setting for picnics and walks. In winter, don't hesitate to bring your snowshoes!

This botanical path offers a route of 2 kilometers in the Pinsole Valley where the bucolic charm of the environment will seize you. More than 40 varieties of trees and so many plants mark out this route including a majestic sequoia.

Guided tour of 2 sites (900m) telling the story of J. Besset from his wheelwright apprenticeship to car body work and making coaches. Video room, small-scale models, vehicle exhibition. Tour option including museum and Iveco Bus. In a friendly atmosphere, a guided tour will retrace Joseph Besset's extraordinary industrial epic. On site No. 1, you'll enter a late 19th-century wheelwright's workshop with its tools, forge and machinery. A little further on, an extensive collection of scale models will introduce you to coaches from all eras and all continents. A highly original video room will take you on a pleasant journey through the fabulous history of the coach industry... To round off this extraordinary journey back in time, we welcome you to site 2, where you will discover 1000 m² of vehicles from the small-scale era: the Rolland Pilain car from 1928, the Citroën P32 coach from 1935, seen in the film Faubourg 36, the Citroën P45 from 1947, the Tubincendie from 1947, etc. to the industrial era: Isobloc from 1943 and 1955, Saviem SC10 and S53, R312, FR1, etc. A sheet metal forming workshop invites you to discover a trade that enabled highly skilled workers to make the bodies of the first vehicles with just a few tools...

Since 2016, the chef Norbert BAYT, welcomes you with his specialties: Frogs, grated, fried mussels On the border of the Auvergne and Forez regions, a town crossed by the Loire, it is opposite the Marronniers that the establishment was created in the 1900s as a bar. It was named "la frontière" because Aurec was the first town in the Haute Loire where the "42" who had been banned from the department took refuge. The extension work has enabled the creation of interior toilets to meet the standards of the disabled, a veranda with a capacity of 18 covers, and still its summer terrace. Remember that our friends the dogs are always admitted.

Traditional restaurant, daily menu from Monday to Friday, no à la carte service except on order. Independent guest rooms with private access and catering possible. Terrace and private parking. View on the Loire River. Restaurant on the edge of the lake of Grangent 50 seats with terrace in summer (20 seats) Groups on order. Evenings by reservation. Closed on Sunday Bed and breakfast accommodation

Restaurant with ardechoise cooking...Let me go ahead and let you in on a little secret : Frogs' legs are worth seeing!

In a warm, rustic setting, enjoy a break and savour the cuisine of Lidia and Loic, in Chambles. They’ll help you discover some excellent food in their elaborate and generous cuisine oozing with authenticity. Non-stop delights throughout the day

Discover Restaurant Lou Sanfourio in Saint-Symphorien-de-Mahun, a friendly setting where pets are welcome. Enjoy our terrace and savour traditional dishes with delivery and takeaway options. Regular entertainment and concerts!

Authentic cuisine made from fresh produce justifies the Maître Restaurateur label awarded to the restaurant. In 2019, La Loco was once again awarded the Tripadvisor Prix d'Excellence, based on the excellent ratings it received from travellers. For our décor, we opted for a mixture of Old and New, bringing together Authentic and Modern: On the one hand, we have a slate floor, genuine wood-panelled walls, a 19th century brass ceiling light and wall lights, and first and foremost a mural of the Saint-Etienne to Lyon railway line. On the other hand, we have programmable LED strip lighting, our upholstery and paintwork is in matching light grey, and we have paintings by contemporary artists.

Home cooking with local products - blueberries and mushrooms.

Artisan pizzas cooked in a wood fire.

At 1080 m the hotel restaurant welcomes you all year. Traditional food.

The Ess’Folie café & restaurant is all about sharing and invites you for an extraordinary journey through time. Relish a romantic dinner or a meal with friends or family, in the chic vintage atmosphere of the roaring twenties.

Located close to the Loire river, you are welcome in this wonderfull piece of nature where you can discover the foothills of the Auvergne Campsite located close to Saint-Etienne, beside the Loire River with the magnificent gorges as the setting. Mobile homes and chalets for rent, caravan and tent pitches for holiday stays. Plots can be booked for short, medium and long stays. Entertainment schedule. Nearby: fishing, leisure centre.

Detached late 19th century farmhouse in a small village near the Loire gorges with adjoining enclosed courtyard below (50 m²). Ground floor: living room-kitchen (TV, wood stove, Internet access), wc. 1st floor: 2 bedrooms (1 bed 140 each), 1 bedroom (2 beds 90), shower room, wc. Electric heating in supplement according to consumption. Wood for the stove provided in supplement: 15 €/week. Cleaning deposit: 70 €. Baby equipment: canvas bed, bathtub, high chair, booster seat. Independent garden - Garden furniture - Fenced area Nearby: Aurec at 3 km (medieval city, castle, outdoor activity resort with swimming, canoeing, mountain biking, hiking, all shops and services), Firminy and the heritage of Le Corbusier at 20 mn, Saint-Etienne at 30 mn. Very close to the Hermet ranch.

Take advantage of a room at Josiane's to rest or to make a stopover on your trip and enjoy all her attention to make the most of your stay. My house of the 60's is located in a very quiet subdivision with little traffic. It is close to the shops, to the retirement home of Aurec and to the banks of the Loire. You can park your car in the courtyard. The bedroom, on the first floor, is equipped with a 140cm bed (recent and comfortable bedding), a wall cupboard, an armchair and a console. You will have free access to the kitchen if you want to prepare your evening meal. Internet access.

Situated in a large 1-hectare garden planted with cedar trees, 15 rooms with all the comfort you need All the bedrooms are at ground floor level and open onto the garden. The restaurant has air conditioning and a lovely open fireplace.

Guesthouse really close to the river Loire and the center of the village. There is a Nautic base not far where you can find electric boats, canoe, mini-golf, Pedalo and karting. 5 bedrooms which all include TV. There is 2 toilets and 2 bathrooms to share. The kitchen can be uses. The gesthouse has also a restaurant if you need an all inclusive service.

Caravan park which can welcome 7 vehicles.

Very cosy 2 level gîte in part of owner's house 300m from little medium altitude mountain village to south of Pilat Regional Nature park. Separate entrance and covered terrace. Living room, fully fitted kitchen area, 3 bedrooms (double bed, 4 single beds), double sofa bed, 2 shower room, 2 WCs. Electric heating. Cot. Large shops 12km. Swimming pool (diam. 4.4m) shared with owners.

Gîte for groups on La Côte estate: 70 sq. m. (ground et 1st floors). Living room with fireplace and kitchen area, 14 bed dormitory, 2 showers, 2 washbasins, 2 WCs. Grounds of 300 sq. m. 70 sq. m. room for hire. Firminy 25km.

In a quiet and nature setting, a spacious apartment in the 2nd floor of the owner's house. Shaded garden with swimming pool, playground, garden furniture, barbecue... Kitchen, living room, 3 bedrooms, bathroom, WC. Hiking, fishing, horse riding 3km. Tennis court 5km. Swimming pool 10km. Lake 20km.