Welcome to the canton of pont-de-vaux

Located at the North-West of the high Bresse, Arbigny develops of west in East, from the Saone, its 1747 hectares of meadows, scrap-metals, cereal cultures and forests enclosing its various hamlets at an altitude varying from 173 to 213 meters. This situation allows it to be defined as follows: " Between Meadow and Bois"

The visitor will be struck by the cohabitation between the centers of breeding and the sectors of habitat. As regards natural spaces, the commune located in zone NATURA 2000 has on its territory of the easily flooded meadows attended by a fauna and a flora whose protection required the adoption of particular directives (protection of biotope, inscription to the inventory of the natural zones of ecological, floristic and faunistic interest and classification in zone of Community interest ornithological).

Footpaths:

• Hiking road of the canton n° 15 " In meadow " (scrap-metal, the meadow with its fauna and its flora, poultry of Bresse, the Mill Level, the church, the house of the pumps).
• Hiking road of the canton n° 16 " Way and Wood " (the laundrette, wood, poultry of Bresse, the Mill Level, ponds, the church, the house of the Pumps).

The commune of Boissey is located at 10 kms in the south of Pont de Vaux worth, extends on 934 km ² and counts a population of 220 inhabitants dispersed in several hamlets.

Boissey, single common of the canton rewarded by the label “Flowery Village” decreed by the Rhône Alpes Area, offers to the visitors amateurs flowers a splendid harmony of flowers varied with solid masses and multicoloured floors installed on the crossing of the village.

The commune of Boz, 493 inhabitants, extends its territory to the edge of the Saone, river border between the Bresse and Mâconnais which skirts the village on 2,5 kms.

The center of the borough is located at approximately 4 kms with the S.O of Bridge of Are worth, place chief of the Canton. The whole of the commune covers 761 ha.

This geographical location along a large river influenced by many aspects the history and the character of the village.
Currently, this beautiful place is very snuffed fishermen and painters.

The Meadow, jacket floodplain conditioned until our days, the rural life of the inhabitants and offers to the visitors a landscape quality, where one sees flowering in Spring Cardamine and the fritillaire guinea fowl. A hiking trail makes it possible to discover the site of Onions and the meadow with a departure in the center of the village. A zone of activities ACTIPARC installed in partnership with the Community of Communes of the Canton of Pont de Vaux accomodates artisanal or industrial companies.

Chavannes sur Reyssouze is the commune where the length of the tar roadway system is most important of the canton, namely 43 kms.

With an undulating and timbered landscape, Chavannes is all in surprises. The heart of the village or the hamlets like that of Corcelles or Darbonnets, beyond wooded ways has much charm.

Remain some transformed mills, that of Montrin in the hollow of the valley or that of the Haute-Serve who preserved her reserves, her machinery and a beautiful whole of remarkably restored houses.

Beautiful residences punctuate this landscape, like the Mignon castle, where Roger VAILLAND lived, or vestiges of the castle of Brioude. Although its old walls were rough-cast, its windows always draw accodances and there remains quite sitted on its medieval mound.

Gorrevod is a commune of the North-West of the department of Ain, pertaining to the canton of Pont de Vaux located in limit of the department of the Saone and the Loire.

Borough in Bresse, chief town of the department of Ain, is located at approximately 45 kilometers in South-east, whereas Mâcon, place chief of the Saone and the Loire, are only with one about fifteen kilometers in the western south.

In Gorrevod, the castle of Gorrevod does not exist any more. It seems already ruined in 1650. It was demolished in 1773 and its materials were used to build, 200 m in the west, the farm known as of the castle.

Although this history is very rich, few elements our inform on the history of the urban development of the commune, in particular the absence of true borough.

The explanations are to be sought in the mode of cultures, the interest of the transportation routes (in particular the VC1 and today the RD58) and the proximity of Bridge of are worth.

The Construction of the Town hall-school near the Church with the vines, at the end of the XIX century, shows the concern of joining together in this place public equipment.

In the North-West of the department of Ain, in the Valley of the Saone near left bank of the Saone, with ten kilometers in the north of Mâcon, twenty kilometers in the south of Tournus, thirty kilometers in the North-West of Borough in Bresse and four kilometers in the south of Bridge of be worth, its chief town of canton, Ozan, rural district of 511 inhabitants extends on 660 hectares from south-east towards the North-West. It is included in the basin of use of Mâcon and in the basin of habitat of Bresse 2.

The Commune of Pont de Vaux, place chief of canton, counts 2042 inhabitants.

Supported on Reyssouze, tributary of the Saone, stretched throughout its main street, Pont-de-Vaux aligns its houses with the rough coats of bright color, with the insolence of small the city which feel well in their environment.

Pont-de-Vaux must with the river and the bridge making it possible to cross it, its creation, its miracles and its development. On its banks the hemp steeped formerly, from which one manufactured cords for the royal navy, the tanners softened the skins and the lavender fields struck the linen.

Its two celebrities, Antoine Chintreuil, painter preimpressionist and Barthelemy Joubert, hero of the Revolution, draw up themselves in the marble and take care of each one of its ends.

Solids industries, very good hotels with restaurants heirs to the gastronomical tradition bressane, a swimming pool and a camp-site four stars, a marina on a short channel connecting it to the Saone, some hurdy-gurdies houses with mullioned windows, a charming municipal museum, pleasant tradesmen compose his current richness.