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Around the lakes in dombes

Sciences & discovery  Walks  Sites and museums 

A circuit ideal to discover the lakes, the fauna, the flora but also the charming litlle villages of the dombes region.

Villars lès dombes

Villars lès dombes


  Visit of:
  The Villars les Dombes Roman church, built around 1250.
  The Birds ornithological park which presents 23 hectares, a biotope where vegetation and faunas are preserved. You will discover around 2 000 birds of more than 400 species.

Lapeyrouse

Lapeyrouse


  The Château de la Grange. Within a bucolic landscape, at the end of an alley of trees, the castle testifies the past.
  The Castle of Glareins. The tradition says that this castle had the honor to shelter Napoleon III.
  The Saint Romain Church. Bult on the highes place of the village, it still dominates the public place at a height of ten steps over a
  planted terrace of shrubs which was the old cemetery.
  The Quinson Lake.

Bouligneux

Bouligneux


  The Bouligneux Castle. This caslte, entirely registered to the additional inventory of the Historic buildings, it is a beautiful monument with its ditches, its fortifications, its main courtyard, especially in spring when its red brick arcades and its enclosure, metamorphosed by the sun, are detached on the white tablecloths from buttercups submerging the pond which circles it almost entirely .
  You will also discover the pond of the castle and the Fôret pond.

Saint andré le bouchoux  lakes by foot

Saint andré le bouchoux lakes by foot


Châtillon sur chalaronne

Châtillon sur chalaronne


Romans and saint georges de renon  by foot

Romans and saint georges de renon by foot


Circuit around st olive

Circuit around st olive


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