étoile-sur-rhône

At 10 km in the South of Valence, the commune of Étoile-sur-Rhône is extended on 4279 hectares of grounds and along the Rhone on 10 km.

• the plain, rich person of fauna and flora joined a strewn hill of the fruit trees and the perched village dominates the Valley of the Rhone, opposite, the first mountains of the Ardeche.
• The Roman epoch, Star inherited its name, in Latin " Stella ". With the turnings of the lanes and places, a fountain, a rampart, the Notre Dame church, the Diane tower of Poitiers, the Concise Charter of 1244, the laundrette… A certain environment, already of Provence, emerges from this strolls through the centuries…
• Monuments and houses, often out of stones Star ochre-orange and out of rollers of the Rhone give to the village a particular aspect the evenings of summer or autumn. You will be surprised by the multiple points of sights of the village, it is necessary to raise the eyes on a sculpture, a detail of door and " to climb " until the Park of the Castle for the panorama on the Valley of the Rhone. The place of the Republic shelters a magniolia more than centenary….
• This is at Etoile  in July 1789 the first gathering of the French national guards took place which was the starting point of the festival of the Federation in Paris on July 14, 1790.
• Thanks to the Rhone and its alluvial terraces, the ground is rich and l' agriculture diversified for a long time. The river-king also drained in his flow of many boats which with l' time made halts with the many relays of towing which the commune counted; in still " testifies; Calabert "

• Beaumont, with the liking of successive legations, is torn between the bishop of Valence and various seigniories.
• Among the vestiges of the past, two monuments remarkable: the tower known as " of l' Horloge" , which raise at 12 meters high to the entry of the old village and the church today called " building church - temple ". The construction of the current church took place of 1150 to 1250.
• From the ramparts, built in 1336, the tower remains the only visible vestige today. With l' origin, it constituted the door d' entered from the village and already the name of " carries; turn of l' Horloge" in 1614.
• About a few kilometers only the agglomeration valentinoise Beaumont the Valence knew to keep, thanks to the dynamism of these economic actors, of its associations, a quality of life with the shelter of the harmful effects of the big cities.
• By its authenticity, the softness of its climate, the charm of its landscapes and the richness of its inheritance, Beaumont the Valence attracts more and more visitors and new residents. Among our very favorites…. Clepsydre (clock with water) place of Rasset, the footbridge on the river Véore district of Bush hammer, the astronomical path along Ecoutay, Corso (ravelled flowered tanks) at Easter each year…

At 10 minutes of Valence, Beauvallon is the first village which you will meet in direction of Drôme-Véore and the Valley of Drome.

• It is necessary to leave the motorway with Southern Valence to take " short cuts " …
• The great place bordered of plane trees and limes accomodates you and invites you to make a greedy halt, why not the market days.
• The village is still called The Cow " at the end of the XIX century, vast meadows are extended then from share and other of the river, Véore, allowing the inhabitants to raise many cows…
• In 1890, the village takes its current name, Beauvallon, making the joy of the inhabitants, tired of the jokes made around its old name…
• The old village is discovered and deserved because it is necessary to go up to reach the laundrette, the town hall and the castle whose foundations date from XII century. By the street of the Princes one reaches the church of 1625 after the inscription engraved with the top of the principal door; then while skirting the wall until the cemetery, one discovers the Valley of the Rhone, powerful and beautiful.
• Has two steps of the village, the lake arranged for spade-screw or it fishing is an haven of peace where the amateurs of idleness will be able to appreciate the shade of the trees and the calm one… but attention, the bathe is prohibited there.

• Required passage between the plain of Valence and the valley of Drome, this perched small village accomodates you in its walls.
• You enter the old village, built with l' interior of the rampart, by large the " carry Paving stone " , close to the Tourist office. The another side of this door, you discover small lanes which go up by charming staircases until the top of the village. # the glance goes then towards the Mounts of Ardeche then towards the Three Nozzles and Vercors. The place of the church (built in 1837), will be a pleasant halt with the shade of the plane trees; beautiful prospect on the " House of the Park " . Two hours a pedestrian path makes it possible to make it tower of the " hill of Skirt " ; at the top, a table of orientation describes a panorama which extend from Préalpes to the buttresses of the Massif Central.
• In the north of the commune, a marsh and a roselière shelter several species d' migratory birds protected as well as many rare plant species, they such protected (attention: private site).