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THE
VALLOIRE...
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« Welcome
to the Valloire Tourist Information Office »
Between the “Ardèche verte” and the ‘Drôme
des collines’(Hilly Drôme), the ‘Valloire’
gathers the villages of Albon, Andance, Andancette, Anneyron, Beausemblant,
Champagne, Epinouze, Lens-Lestang, Manthes, Moras-en-Valloire, Peyraud,
Saint-Etienne de Valoux, Saint-Rambert-d’Albon and Saint-Sorlin-en-Valloire.
Once called « Vallis Auréa » by the Romans,
then « Dauphiné wheat storehouse”, “Viennois’
garden » ; the Valloire was covered by a glacier. Later, it
was the bed of the Isère river. The rolled pebbles that we
find everywhere in riverbeds as in the ground are still bearing
testimony of this.Shingles are in fact with molasse stones and cob
one of the building materials of traditionnal houses.
Along with the richness of its grounds, a favourable hydrology
turns out the Valloire into a multi-cultivation ground : meadows,
fruit trees, cereals, tobacco, strawberries...its agriculture is
still very much alive.
Welcome to the Valloire
where the inhabitants will be happy
to share with you the joy of living in their valley.
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Photographies
credits :
A. Roth, Jars céramistes, A.Mejia, L.Pascale@CDT
Drôme, J.C. Rey Robert pour Mulliez, Mairie de
Champagne, Mairie de Peyraud, Mairie de St Etienne de
Valoux, Mairie d'Andance, D. SANIAL.
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