Escapade dans les vergers

Description

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

1/ From the parking lot, take the road towards Allet. At the 1st oval roundabout, turn left onto the small Chemin de l'Allet road. Continue right along the grassy track that runs alongside the expressway, around the field and back up to the road. Cross the road and turn left onto the track that runs alongside the dual carriageway. Return to the road via a set of log steps and cross the bridge over the N7.
Coordinates: (44.9612832, 4.9016389)
Distance from starting point: 22 m
2/ Go straight on, then cross the next road to take a path that follows the road to Fouillouse.
Coordinates: (44.9644732, 4.915688)
Distance from starting point: 2 km
3/ At the "ACCA de Châteauneuf sur Isère" sign, before the hamlet of Fouillouse, turn left onto the Chemin de Sapière track which runs alongside the fields, around the greenhouses and joins the Route du Prat. Follow it to the left until you reach the hamlet of Le Prat.
Coordinates: (44.983918, 4.9292903)
Distance from starting point: 4 km
4/ At the end of the hamlet, turn right onto a track that skirts the meadows and descends into the undergrowth. At the cement markers, follow the path down to the orchards, skirting them to the right, then left along a hedge to reach the route de Bourg at the hamlet of Les Chaux. Follow it to the left.
Coordinates: (44.9860153, 4.9106924)
Distance from starting point: 6 km
5/ At the next houses, leave the road and take a path on the left between fields and fruit trees, which leads to a road. Follow it along the safe path, cross the roundabout and continue along a hedge, at the junction with the golf course road continue on the path behind the hedge.
Coordinates: (44.9860458, 4.9038811)
Distance from starting point: 7 km

History, culture and heritage

La Ferme de GENAS

Close to the Chanalets district and its 17th-century château, these farm buildings are part of an agricultural landscape of peach, cherry and apricot orchards, important resources of the Valence plain. The tower of a former fortified house built in the 16th century stands out. It belonged to the wealthy Genas family, who also owned the Dupré-Latour house in Valence. The Genas family had made their fortune in the salt trade, a vital commodity in the domestic economy. Resulting from erosion of the Alpine massifs during the glacial phases of the Quaternary, Rhone pebbles were used as building materials, notably for the walls of the nearby private chapel and surrounding hamlets.

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