Ardèche and Drôme
Ardèche and Drôme are the two southernmost departments of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-central France. They feature rolling hills and low mountain ranges, deep canyons, an almost Mediterranean climate and vegetation.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Die and Vallon-Pont-d’Arc.
Die
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Die is a village of 4,700 people in Drôme. Tourists come during the summer, especially from the Netherlands and Belgium, to use the camp sites around the Drôme valley.
Vallon-Pont-d’Arc
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Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in south of France. Nearby cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, decorated by well preserved prehistoric drawings of human figures and animals was inscribed to the World Heritage list in 2014.
Buis-les-Baronnies
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Buis-les-Baronnies is a commune in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Orgnac l’Aven and Lagorce.
Orgnac l’Aven
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Orgnac l'Aven is a village in the Ardèche département, in south of France. It is inhabited by approx. 380 people in winter, which grows about ten times in summer.
Lagorce
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Lagorce is a little village in a relatively large commune, near Vallon Pont d'Arc in the Ardèche département, in the south of France.
Ardèche and Drôme
- Type: department of France with 324,000 residents
- Description: department in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Also known as: “Ardeche” and “Ardèche”
- Neighbors: Gard, Isère, Lozère, and Vaucluse
- Location: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ardèche and Drôme” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ardèche”
- Albanian: “Ardèche”
- Arabic: “الأرديش”
- Aragonese: “Ardescha”
- Armenian: “Արդեշ”
- Arpitan: “Ardecha”
- Arpitan: “Ardèche”
- Asturian: “Ardèche”
- Azerbaijani: “Ardeş (departament)”
- Azerbaijani: “Ardeş”
- Basque: “Ardèche”
- Belarusian: “Ардэш (дэпартамент)”
- Belarusian: “Ардэш”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Ардэш”
- Bengali: “আর্দেচে”
- Breton: “Ardecha”
- Bulgarian: “Ардеш”
- Catalan: “Ardecha”
- Cebuano: “Ardèche”
- Chechen: “АгӀдеш”
- Chinese: “Ardèche”
- Chinese: “阿尔代什省”
- Chinese: “阿爾代什”
- Chinese: “阿爾代什省”
- Chuvash: “Ардеш”
- Czech: “Ardèche”
- Danish: “Ardèche”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ardèche”
- Dimli (individual language): “Ardeş”
- Dutch: “Ardeche (departement)”
- Dutch: “Ardèche”
- Esperanto: “Ardèche”
- Estonian: “Ardèche’i departemang”
- Finnish: “Ardèche”
- French: “Ardèche”
- French: “département de l’Ardèche”
- French: “Département de l’Ardèche”
- French: “Vivarais” (historical)
- Galician: “Ardèche”
- Georgian: “არდეში”
- Georgian: “არდეშის დეპარტამენტი”
- German: “Ardèche”
- German: “Département Ardèche”
- Greek: “Αρντές”
- Gujarati: “અર્ડેચે”
- Hakka Chinese: “Ardèche-sén”
- Hebrew: “ארדש”
- Hindi: “आरडेश”
- Hungarian: “Ardèche”
- Indonesian: “Ardèche”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Ardeche”
- Interlingue: “Département Ardèche”
- Irish: “Ardèche”
- Italian: “Ardèche”
- Japanese: “アルデシュ県”
- Kannada: “ಆರ್ಡೆಚೆ”
- Kazakh: “Ардеш”
- Kongo: “Ardèche”
- Korean: “아르데슈”
- Korean: “아르데슈주”
- Kurdish: “Ardèche”
- Ladin: “Ardèche”
- Ladino: “Ardèche”
- Latin: “Ardesca”
- Latvian: “Ardēša”
- Limburgan: “Ardèche”
- Lithuanian: “Ardešas”
- Lombard: “Ardèche”
- Low German: “Ardèche”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Ardèche”
- Macedonian: “Ардеш”
- Malagasy: “Archèche”
- Malagasy: “Ardèche”
- Malay: “Ardèche”
- Marathi: “आर्देश”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ardèche”
- Northern Frisian: “Ardèche (Department)”
- Northern Frisian: “Ardèche”
- Northern Sami: “Ardèche”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ardèche”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ardèche”
- Norwegian: “Ardèche”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ardecha”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Departament d’Ardecha”
- Ossetian: “Ардеш”
- Pampanga: “Ardeche”
- Pampanga: “Ardèche”
- Persian: “آردش”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment d’Ardèche”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd l’Ardèche”
- Polish: “Ardèche”
- Portuguese: “Ardèche”
- Romanian: “Ardèche”
- Romanian: “departamentul Ardèche”
- Russian: “Ардеш”
- Scots: “Ardèche”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ardèche”
- Serbian: “Ардеш”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ardèche”
- Sinhala: “අර්ඩෙචේ”
- Slovak: “Ardèche”
- Slovenian: “Ardèche”
- Spanish: “Ardecha”
- Spanish: “Ardeche”
- Spanish: “Ardèche”
- Swahili: “Ardèche”
- Swedish: “Ardèche”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Ардеш”
- Tamil: “அர்டெச்சே”
- Telugu: “ఆర్డెచ్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอาร์แด็ช”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Ardèche”
- Turkish: “Ardèche”
- Ukrainian: “Ардеш”
- Urdu: “آردیش”
- Uzbek: “Ardeche”
- Venetian: “Ardèche”
- Vietnamese: “Ardèche”
- Volapük: “Ardèche”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ardèche”
- Welsh: “Ardèche”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ارڈیش”
- Wu Chinese: “阿尔代什省”
- Yue Chinese: “阿爾代什”
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