Saint-martin-en-haut

With its 3870 hectares, Saint-Martin-en-Haut is the largest commune of the Rhone and the only green station of the department. Saint-Martin-en-Haut is located in the middle of the Mounts of the Lyonese, at an average altitude of 750 meters.

More than 100 farms produce primarily milk, red cheeses, fruits and vegetables. These products are past on the markets of producers of Lyon but also sold with the farm.

The dynamism and the user-friendliness of the commune are also reflected in the small shop, the restoration and the craft industry strongly established like in very rich associative fabric.

uality of life is a reality here: you will find with profusion fresh air, rest and choice of activities: The many paths involve the walker - that it is with foot, in VTT or with horse - in the varied landscapes: meadows, fields, small valleys, wood… whose colors and odors are unceasingly renewed by very marked seasons.

The country holidays hold a place particular in Saint-Martin-en-Haut from its village holidays - the only one of the department - its municipal camp-site and its camp-sites with the farm.

Finally many associations propose a large range of activities for all the ages and all the tastes: sport, fishing, cinema, media library…

In short, Saint-Martin-en-Haut, where it makes good things in life in all seasons, opens its doors to you…

The hikers will find certainly their happiness among one of the many courses surrounding the Village.

Moreover the arrival of the PDIPR (Plane Departmental of Route of Walks and Excursions) ensure you a maintenance and a more reliable safety, to allow you to go for your walks within a framework more making safe

The amateurs of fishing will be able to tease the gardon, the tench, the pole or even the carp in the pond of Orée of Wood.

Attached to the commune of Martin Saint in Top in 1814, the site of Rochefort is a medieval city of the XII century.

This one is composed in particular of a Church which was, during several centuries a very attended place of pilgrimage and ruins of a fortress being used for defense.

This " high lieu" mounts of the Lyonese is the symbol of the local inheritance: classified and protected site, Rochefort became with the passing of years an important tourist attraction for the commune.

It is in this medieval site that the MJC organizes a Sound and Light in August. The Vault of Rochefort was built in XIIIème century on the rock with peak which overhangs in the East the valley of Artillat. It is directed West-east.

Outside, the cover of the bell-tower was originally a soft pitched roof with four slopes. It is into 1887 that the Faure priest made crown this bell-tower of an octagonal arrow. The bell, gone back to 1615, carries a Latin inscription which is translated as follows: " I will cry the late ones and I will inform the alive ones; I will disperse the clouds and I will push back the tempêtes".