The Valence plain
Located
on Europe's leading North-South route, Valence-sur-Rhône is the main
city of the department, an ideal stop-over point but also a very attractive
place for a holiday.
The old town, with its pedestrianized shopping streets, shady squares lined
with welcoming café terraces, lovely house fronts in pastel shades, has lost
none of its period charm at the centre of a city that is focused on the future.
Close
to the Vercors Regional Nature Park via
Chabeuil (see its monumental gate), Peyrus and the Col des Limouches, Valence is the
ideal departure point for many excursions. You can go through the lovely
village of Beaumont-Les-Valence on
your way to La Pangée (Pangea) and La Baume-Cornillane, centre of the earth
(290 million years ago).