Hotellerie Le Beau Rivage - Condrieu, Rhone - Alpes

Chain:

RDS

Facilities:

• Air-conditioning - Cooling only or Reverse cycle
• Disabled facilities with assistance
• Meeting facilities
• On-site manager
• Restaurant

Single room

Double / Twin room

Triple room

Check-in Time:

15.00

Check-out Time:

12.00

Children & Extra Guest Policy:

Free extra bed for 1 child under 12 y.o. sharing room with parents. Meals to be paid locally.
2 children under 12 y.o. sharing room parents = triple room. Meals to be paid locally.

Things to do:

Cooking lessons

Local Attractions:

- Drapery Museum - Vienne
A testimony of Vienne's industrial manufacturers of woollen cloth and linen Operative machines, documents and samples evoke the time when the production of woollen cloth and linen brought prosperity to Vienne.

- The Old Church of St-Peter - Vienne
An old sanctuary which has become a lapidary deposit. One of France's oldest Christian buildings (5C) with a basilican map and a big and well constructed nave. Beautiful Romanesque church tower and a magnificently sculptured South portal (splendid statue of Saint Peter). Today, the sanctuary is a lapidary museum which holds a Junon head and the beautiful Tutela Statue , the city's protective divinity.

- Temple of Auguste and Livie - Vienne
A "maison carree" from Vienne saved by Merimee. Dedicated to Auguste and his wife Livie, this temple looks like a copy the Maison Carree in Nimes. Its facade, made up of a row of six columns which support the entablature, dominated the Forum. It was transformed into a church in the Middle Ages. Dduring the Revolution, it was dedicated to the worship of the goddess of Reason. Before being restored under the aegis of Prosper Merimee. It was used as court, then as a museum and later a library.

- Site - Saint-Romain-en-Gal
An admirable site revealing the daily life of the Romans. The 3ha-site contains Roman vestiges in five, irregularly-shaped areas. Rue du Portique, Rue des Thermes and Rue du Commerce are the main thoroughfares of the town. The entrance is dominated by the House of the Ocean Gods dating from 180AD. This house, with a famous mosaic to be found in the museum, is embellished by two gardens. The Wrestlers' Baths are a remarkable sign of Roman influence. The Caldarium, tepidarium and frigidarium are the principal rooms of this residential building. Its painted murals are kept in the museum: naked athletes are depicted in scenes of hand-to-hand wrestling, boxing, all-in wrestling and throwing the discus. Trading activities, located in several areas of the site, were considerable. The horrea in the northwest of the town were vast storage places or attics. A multitude of vestiges of the craftsmen's quarter located at the crossroads of Rue du Commerce and Rue des Thermes can still be seen: pottery, plumbing and dyeing. Weaving, leatherwork and basketmaking were popular crafts.

- Gallo-Roman city of St-Romain-en-Gal
Gallo-Roman decorative arts and urban planning. Excavations since 1967 on the west bank of the Rh?ne have unearthed a 5 acre-site comprised of a Gallo-Roman city complete with lavish villas, shops, workshops and baths. The finest discoveries, mainly mosaics, are displayed in the museum. Look out for the famous mosaic of the Ocean Gods, that of the Punishment of Lycurgus, and the exceptional painting of waders.

- Roman theatre - Vienne
One of the biggest Roman theatres. Discovered in 1922, it is one of the biggest of the Gallo-Roman period. 13 500 spectators could sit down on the 46 tier rows situated over a series of well-kept arched galleries, and which crowned a temple. Notice a copy of a wonderful animal frieze (the original is in the museum) on the base of the stage floor. Currently, it is the setting for the Jazz Festival.

- Mount Pipet - Vienne
Ascent for a view of the town. From the esplanade set out in front of the Notre-Dame-de-la-Salette chapel, there is a remarkable view of the town and the magnificent nave of St-Maurice.

- Le Pilat - Saint-Etienne
Ideal for holidays in the country. A watershed at Chabouret Pass (1 363m), Mont Pilat rises between the Loire and the Rhone Valleys. The Regional Park created in 1974 covers some 160 000 acres of varied landscapes. Towards the Rhone, the orchards and vineyards (such as the famous Cote-Rotie) give way to pastures on the plateaux, and to forests as the altitude increases. The cool forests of fir trees, fast-flowing streams and vast meadows make it very popular with walkers.

- Canson and Montgolfier Paper Mill museum - Davezieux
In the birthplace of Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier. You will learn that they were primarily paper-makers. The museum offers a complete retrospective of the production of paper on the banks of the River Deume: from the traditional workshop with its vat, set of forms and wooden press, to the latest printing techniques using CD-Roms; a complete overview of the subject, including the history of the prestigious papeterie de Vidalon, the royal paper factory in 1784.

- Cesar-Filhol Vivarois museum - Annonay
In the old royal bailiwick (1700): Annonay and its great men. Apart from the Montgolfier brothers and Marc Seguin (a model of his locomotive, 1828), we should mention the Seguin brothers who developed the rotary aircraft motor, the Gnome, in 1908 - and the reconstitution of a traditional Vivarois kitchen.

Getting There:

Airport: Lyon 45 Km.
Train station: St Clair-du-Rhone 3 Km.
By car: A7 Exit Condrieu, N86 and head south 12Km, pass through Condrieu and, on the southern outskirts, look for signs on the left.