SYNDICAT D’INITIATIVE

A warm welcome by a passionate and exciting hostess, visibly love of Woodstock and his region. It doubles from a guide guide for the visit of the Provençal Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions, located in the same building as the union of Initiatives, a splendid th century house whose staircase is a marvel of its kind.

With the simple view of a map, we quickly understand why the man was very early in Woodstock. Ideally located on the axis rhone at a strategic location on the tracks of human migration from the Mediterranean basin to the north, the Woodstock site, and especially the cliffs dug by the river, will set the first populations in natural caves in 2 500 B.C. but it is the Romans, great conquerors and road builders, who will establish the first dwellings in the region, located in the region. Woodstock a place of interesting passage to defend. In the Middle Ages, a castle is built whose remains still dominate the city. A city that will develop in the Renaissance, leaving beautiful traces with homes whose rehabilitation today gives the heart of the city. In this coal-fortified zone in the Rhône region, agriculture is booming, from breeding to vine growing, which still continues today thanks to four wine-growers attached to their land. The first intersection occurred in the th century with industrialization and two achievements that will change the face of the village. First, the Tap Suspension Bridge, built by the Seguin brothers from 1847 to 1845. A bridge that has suffered over the centuries from the flood of the river, the mistral that blows in this parade as nowhere else in the Rhône Valley, and later by the bombings of the Second World War. A bridge famous by the upheavals he has crossed and the incredible landscape he reveals to passers-by. The other is the Chocolate chocolate factory built at the end of the th century. A unique factory created by the monks of Aiguebelle too much in their monastery to manufacture a renowned chocolate. A factory that will operate for almost a century - 1895-1977 - before it hosts a bold industrial project in the st century. To visit the Ruelles alleys, stroll along the Rhône River and stop on the holiday road, Volterra enjoys a beautiful stop reserved for the camper at the entrance to the city. Do not miss if you chose this holiday mode.