Drôme: what to see and do
46 sites listed in the département. Between Provence and the Dauphiné, the Drôme combines the lavender fields of the Drôme Provençale, hilltop villages and the pre-Alpine Vercors massif. Nyons and its olive oil, dizzying gorges and caves complete the variety of this many-sided département.
Chute de la Druise
The waterfall is 72 metres high and a path descends to its transparent green waters. Access via the Omblèze gorges and the Druise Fall.
Cirque D'Archiane
From the sumptuous cirque of Archiane, discover the largest nature reserve in France: the Hauts-Plateaux du Vercors with the Combeau valley, the Tête Chevalière, the Jardin du Roi and the Chamousset sheepfold.
Crevasses de Chantemerle
Curious, I would have no other word to define this natural phenomenon that is the formation of this crevasse.
Gorges d'Ubrieux
A listed natural site 3 km from Buis-les-Baronnies, where the Ouvèze winds between limestone cliffs: swimming, climbing and hiking in the heart of the Baronnies.
Gorges de la Bourne (Les Grands Goulets)
The Grands Goulets are gorges in the French département of the Drôme, in the upper part of the reculée of the Vernaison (or Échevis valley), in the western part of the Vercors massif.
Grotte de la Draye Blanche
It was Fabien Rey who discovered the Draye Blanche cave when he lost a dog. The dog had fallen through the entrance of a hole.
Grotte de la Luire
The Luire cave is in the heart of the Vercors, not far from Saint-Agnan.
La Cascade Blanche
A wide foaming fall on the Lyonne, a stone's throw from Pont-en-Royans, reached by a short, easy walk in the heart of the Vercors.
La Cascade Verte
A curtain of water falling from the Devil's Cave over a wall carpeted in moss and tufa, near Pont-en-Royans, in the Vercors.
La Garde-Adhémar
Perched on a hill overlooking the Donzère-Mondragon canal and the Pierrelatte plain, this former medieval stronghold lies on the left bank of the Rhône.
Mirmande
As you approach the town, your gaze stops on the imposing ramparts built in the fifth century.
Montbrun-les-Bains
Packed against each other, the old stone houses have gained in height the space they did not have on the ground.
Aquarium des Tropiques
Atelier du musée de la soie
Cascade d'Aubres
A moss-covered tufa waterfall about fifteen metres high, nestled in a setting of olive trees a few kilometres from Nyons, in the Drôme provençale.
Château d'Albon
Château de Chamaret
Château de Grignan
The château de Grignan, whose origin goes back to the twelfth century, was built on a rocky peak overlooking Grignan; it was turned into a fortress in the thirteenth century by the Adhémar family: in the seventeenth century François Adhémar de Monteil made it a luxurious residence. Reduced to…
Château de Rochechinard
Château de Suze-la-Rousse
Built on a rocky promontory, the medieval fortress is a spectacular military work protected by its towers and rampart.
Château des Adhémar
Châtillon-en-Diois
A stone village of the Diois, nestled at the foot of limestone cliffs, ranked among the Most Beautiful Villages of France.
Cité du Chocolat Valrhona
Claps de Luc et Saut Drôme
In 1442, a limestone landslide of about two million cubic metres broke away from the slope and blocked the bed of the Drôme at two points, forming the Petit Lac downstream and the Grand Lac upstream.
Distillerie Bleu Provence
Défilé du Gas
Glacière de Font d'Urle
From the Font d'Urle resort, take the track climbing to the Porte d'Urle for 250 metres. On the left begins a path with a gate to cross the electric fence, which runs along the south flank of the peak marked 1500.
Grotte du Brudour
Grotte du Brudour, from the bridge over the Brudour, a half-hour round-trip walk. A very pleasant path leads to this cavity, the resurgence of waters that fell around Une.
La Ferme aux Crocodiles
La Ferme aux Papillons
Le Bateau à roue de Royans
Le Canyon des Gueulards
Le Jardin aux Oiseaux
Le Pas du Gour à Brette
Le Poët-Laval
On a steep site in the Jabron valley, this medieval village with a triangular plan sits in a superb panorama of wooded foothills.
Le village miniature provençal
Les Sucettes de Borne
Musée international de la chaussure
Mémorial de la Résistance en Vercors
Palais Idéal du Facteur Cheval
Tour de Crest
The highest keep in France, 52 metres tall, the Tour de Crest is the guardian of one of the rare gateways of the Drôme Prealps.
Tour de Ratières
Combe Laval
A spectacular reculée of the Vercors dominated by a road cut into the cliff side more than 700 metres above the void.
Montélimar
Nyons
A small Provençal town renowned for its exceptionally mild microclimate and olive groves, crossed by the majestic single-arch Roman bridge.
