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ブドウ畑に囲まれた芸術作品。

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Definitely not an easy route; many steep climbs with bike in hand. A real hiking bike.

Even before we cycle out of Saillans, we're stopped by art. Along the roadside stands a group of grape pickers, immortalized in a rusty corten steel procession. This sculpture is the work of Pierre Louis Chipon, a French artist who gives agricultural machinery a second life as poetry in metal. His works adorn the Route de la Clairette, a wine route that winds through the Drôme, embodying the region's age-old traditions in steel. Clairette is the name of a grape that already populated the hills here in Roman times and is still the star of the sparkling Clairette de Dié. This wine, once "invented" by monks, was considered for centuries one of France's oldest sparkling wines.

Small and beautifully restored chapel

Pretty town at the foot of the Trois Becs

Drinking water at the church / cemetery

At the exit of Saillan there are two nice works of art with reference to the wine-growing tradition.