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Natural wonders · Drôme
Combe Laval
A spectacular reculée of the Vercors dominated by a road cut into the cliff side more than 700 metres above the void.
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The Vercors massif, straddling Drôme and Isère, offers some of the most spectacular karst landscapes of the French Prealps, between dizzying gorges, glacial cirques and roads cut into the cliff face.
This selection brings together the massif's great natural sites, from the clifftop road of Combe Laval to the Grands Goulets, via the mythical Mont Aiguille, the first summit climbed in the history of mountaineering.
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Natural wonders · Drôme
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.
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Waterfalls · Drôme
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.
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Natural wonders · Drôme
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.
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Natural wonders · Isère
Glaciere de Corrençon
Near Corrençon-en-Vercors, the Glacière cave, easily accessible in summer, was worked at the start of the century as an "ice-cube factory" by the people of Grenoble.
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Natural wonders · Isère
Le Mont Aiguille
Mont Aiguille, one of the seven wonders of the Dauphiné. Mont Aiguille was once called "Mont Inaccessible" because climbing it was thought impossible.
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Natural wonders · Isère
La Pierre Percée
On the borders of the communes of La Motte-d'Aveillans and Pierre-Châtel, not far from La Mure, the Pierre Percée is one of the most astonishing geological curiosities of our region.
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Natural wonders · Drôme
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.
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Waterfalls · Drôme
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.
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Villages · Isère
Pont-en-Royans
This town, at the foot of the Vercors massif, at the mouth of very beautiful gorges, is recognised as one of the most curious in Isère with its hanging houses with colourful façades overlooking the river Bourne.
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