Via Sancti Martini in Isère

Between Chartreuse and Vals du Dauphiné, take part of the Via Sancti Martini European path. On the way or after a detour to Lac de Paladru, the Isère hills have a thousand and one surprises in store for you!

The Via Sancti Martini is a path labeled “Council of Europe Cultural Route”. She follows in the footsteps of Saint-Martin, 4th century bishop of Tours, great traveler and universal figure, known for sharing his cape in favor of a disadvantaged person.

Connecting Szombathély, Martin's birthplace in Hungary, to Tours, the French city where his tomb is located, it travels across Europe from east to west over 2500km.

The Pays Voironnais and the Vals du Dauphiné offer you a roaming route from station to station between Pont-de-Beauvoisin and Val-de-Virieu (Virieu-sur-Bourbre station):
- Day 1: 22 km / + 620m and - 333m (overnight in Montferrat or around Lake Paladru)
- Day 2: 19km / +407m and - 564m

The itinerary based on the values ​​of sharing and exchange is an opportunity to discover the heritage, local products, know-how of the territory, by promoting rich and friendly encounters.

To discover on your way:
- landscapes with mountains and valleys, covered with woods and meadows, offering numerous panoramas of the pre-Alps and Mont-Blanc, particularly from the Chapel of the Three Crosses and the Tour du Sacré-Cœur;
- small hamlets, fortified houses and castles with the adobe architecture characteristic of Bas Dauphiné;
- the green nature, the rolling meadows where the cows graze or the lagoon blue waters of Lake Paladru;
- the Archaeological Museum of Lake Paladru which exhibits the remains of the first men living on its banks for a journey to the Neolithic and the Year 1000;
- the memory of Saint-Martin represented locally by the fresco illustrating the scene of sharing in the church of Saint-Martin de Vaulserre and Mont Saint-Martin that the path bypasses.


Markup:

The complete route marking will take place very soon.

In the meantime, at each crossroads between several hiking trails, a post indicates the next direction. It is therefore advisable to follow the following signposts:

PONT DE BEAUVOISIN Gare > La Guinguette > Les Sables > Le Grabier > Le Menou > Les Forêts > Vieux St-Jean > L'Antiquaire > Sacré-Coeur > La Sauge > Petit Velanne > Vicharière > Le Buisson > L'Ourcière > Les Rajans > Côtes Galloya > Vernatet > St-Pierre de Paladru > Bois Châtel > Le Sourilloud > Le Gréhaut > Chemin du Lavoir > Le Brocard > Croix du Jubilé > Les Sources > Chassignieu > La Mollat ​​> Tancin > Cote 568 > Les Hauts d'Envelumps > Beauregard > Virieu sur Bourbre station