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Cultural weekend or tremendous entertainments, there's always something going on: exhibitions, museums, unusual cultural sites to explore and festival venues to share. In the day, at night, in both big and small towns, there is always something to discover in Rhône-Alpes...  

Talented

Ambronay, feminine ancient music

Ambronay, feminine ancient music
There was a time when classical music was forbidden to women. And if the Festival of Ambronay continues to celebrate Chopin, Mahler, Wagner and Rameau, it also invites practically unknown creators such as Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, the most famous composer of the French Grand Siècle; and interpreters such as Houria Aïchi. So that justice can at last be done!
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Takeoff

Icare Cup conquering the sky

Icare Cup conquering the sky
For the 35th year, the paragliding Icare Cup multiplies performances in Isère. Every year, records are beaten during the four days which represent the greatest demonstration of Hang-gliding in the World. It gathers together all the madmen of the sky, from the most prestigious professional to the most greenhorn of the amateurs.
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Elegance

Luxury speedboats

Luxury speedboats
One of the most beautiful lakes of the Alps, the Bourget lake, loved by the poet Lamartine, organizes a meeting every year with the most beautiful types of old boats and, this year in particular, with vintage dinghies. For a show of rare elegance where water is king!
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Art

Lyon, dance capital

Lyon, dance capital
One of the powerful moments of the Dance Biennial in Lyon, is the parade of the Dance Companies that assembles four thousand five hundred participants in the streets of the city. Just like the schools of samba, in Rio. In September, in Lyon, and during three weeks, the whole city dances!
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Acoustic

Natural concerts in Ardèche

Natural concerts in Ardèche
It is a surprising and all in all delicious mixture. Imagine, during an evening, a lyrical spectacle or a symphonic concert on the river banks, a grotto, at the foot of a cliff or in the heart of a clearing ... And you will have an idea of the charm of the Festival of Labeaume, in Southern Ardèche.
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Voice

Jazz in the Drôme

Jazz in the Drôme
It is already more than thirty years that the most beautiful jazz voices have invested the lanes between the old houses, the little squares and Provençal areas, all around the keep of Crest, a delightful drômois village. Jazz lovers would miss this festival for nothing in the world ...
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Festivals

Great musical nights of summer

Great musical nights of summer
The Fourvière Nights and the Jazz in Vienne festival compete with talent, with a programme of a rare quality, to enchant the nights of lovers of theatre, music, jazz and spectacles in general. Rendezvous in June and July, on the banks of the Rhône.
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Spectacular

Visionary and classified Architecture

Visionary and classified Architecture
The site of Firminy Vert, close to Saint Etienne, is the most important of Europe, realized by Le Corbusier, architect obsessed by happiness.  It awaits, like the site of Chandigarh in India, the most important in the world, to be classified this year to UNESCO world heritage. It is already classified Ancient Monument.
Tags : Culture and Outings | Exhibitions and heritage

Secret

The amazing tour in the traboules of Lyon

The amazing tour in the traboules of Lyon
It is one of the charms and, not the least of the old districts of Lyon. To discover its history and its architecture, you can walk while following the traboules of Vieux Lyon and Croix Rousse. A permanent amazement!
Tags : Exhibitions and heritage

Precious

Silk shopping

Silk shopping
It was in 1540 that François 1st entitled Lyon to start the task of silk manufacturing, setting up a factory in this city. But we are not talking about an ancestral or out of date activity, on the contrary. Between the Rhône and Saône rivers, silk is still alive and there are lots of places where you shop cheaply if silk squares and fabric come directly from the workshops.

Tags : Fashion and accessories

Documentation

Rhône-Alpes : Magazine autumn 

Rhône-Alpes : industrial, scientific and technichal tourism 

Shopping in Rhône-Alpes

Silk in Rhône-Alpes

 

"L'Ain, des révélations croustillantes", general guide 

Ain : practical guide

The Bresse road

The Dombes road

 

Ardèche : practical guide 

Charming villages in Ardèche

 

"Rediscover yourselves in the Drôme", general guide

Drôme : practical guide

 

Montélimar : practical guide

 

Nyons : practical guide 

Valence : practical guide 

"Secrets de Terroir" in Drôme Provençale 

 

Isère : practical guide

Isère : tourist routes

Isère : festivals

Parc de Chartreuse : practical guide

 

Loire : practical guide

 

Lyon & Rhône : leisure guide 

"Secrets de Terroir" in Beaujolais

 

Savoie Mont Blanc : Magazine summer

 

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