アイザックの天然記念物・トップ9

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Nice climb and magnificent bridges

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.

Unfortunately, swimming is forbidden

The Ray-Pic waterfall is a natural waterfall and a natural volcanic site. The amazing rock formations of this 60-meter waterfall follow a lava flow that forms a cascade of basalt columns.

This walk starts very hard and certainly does not make it easy. Very beautiful on the other hand.

Thousands of years ago, Ray-Pic was an active volcano. This volcano regularly spewed large lava flows, which bore through the surrounding landscape. Research has shown that these lava flows must have been among the longest lava flows in Europe. For example, some lava flows would have been more than twenty kilometers long. As a result of all the natural disasters, Cascade du Ray-Pic was created, as well as the surrounding landscape. Relatively early in history, this waterfall came to be known as one of the most beautiful sights in Ardèche. In 1931 Cascade du Ray-Pic and its surroundings were declared one of the most important natural sites in this region.

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"