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Super lighting with color change (September 2025)

The Queen's Staircase is carved into the volcanic rock. A superb view of the surrounding mountains awaits you at the top of the 215 steps. The magnificent Royal Ladders circuit takes you to discover the Devil's Bridge as well as the Queen's Ladder and the King's Ladder.

The Giant's Causeway in Thueyts is a striking volcanic rock formation that resembles a giant's staircase, offering spectacular views of the Ardèche landscape. As you walk this trail, you'll see towering basalt columns formed by ancient lava flows, creating a natural wonder that appears almost sculpted.

Sources: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00116726 "Gallic oppidum of the barred spur type, dominating the Ardèche. On the accessible side, it is defended by a monumental wall presenting three stages of construction. The first is represented by a rectilinear dry stone wall, pierced by a cart door which delimits a four-hectare oppidum, dated 130 AC Then, the enlargement of the oppidum results in a massive work punctuated by square towers involved in the work. An external clavicula, usually found in Roman camps and serving as the forward defense of the gate, and the use of mortar to bind the core are seen in this second phase dating back to around 80 AC. Finally, a third phase, around 50 AC, doubles this construction of overhanging towers, alternately round and square. This last state uses mortar more widely for facings and towers. At the rear of these fortifications is perceptible a habitat composed of houses of different sizes interspersed by a network of roads. This site is undoubtedly the former administrative center of the city of the Helvians, before the creation of Alba Helviorum."

This magnificent stone bridge overlooks the Ardèche River at the foot of the village of Thueyts, 45 minutes from Vallon Pont d'Arc. 17 m high, it is an emblematic place of the Ardèche to discover. According to legend, the bridge was built under the inspiration of the devil, for the destruction of the souls of the young people of the village, who wanted to cross to the other side to hide their guilty loves, slipped into the abyss. "And on days when the river's current swells, we sometimes think we hear their desperate cries mixed with the rumbling of the water"

Meanwhile very well developed and with lighting that changes colors when driving through.

The water under the bridge is deep. You can jump from the rocks towards the beach. Caution cold!

Steep paths lead from Thueyts downhill to the Pont du Diable. A small, stone bridge over the Ardèche.