Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Vienne, France

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Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 1.8 km
Ascend 33 m
Descend 41 m

Explore Vienne in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Vienne

Sight 1: Jardin du 8 Mai 1945

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Jardin du 8 Mai 1945 User:Otourly / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Allobrogres Square and the 8-May-1945 Garden make up Vienna's Champ de Mars. They are located south of the city centre, towards the Vienna train station, not far from the St. Peter's Archaeological Museum.

Wikipedia: Champ de Mars et Jardin du 8 mai 1945 de Vienne (FR)

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Enceinte romaine

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The Roman wall of Vienne, located in Vienne (France), was one of the longest walls in Gaul: more than 7,250 km long, enclosing a space of 250 hectares.

Wikipedia: Enceinte romaine de Vienne (FR)

242 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Musée archéologique Saint-Pierre de Vienne

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Musée archéologique Saint-Pierre de Vienne User:Otourly / CC BY-SA 3.0

Saint Peter's church (Saint-Pierre-le-Bas) in Vienne is one of the oldest surviving churches in France, situated in the Rhône-Alpes region. The church was added to the 1862 version of the list of France's Monuments historiques, created in 1819.

Wikipedia: Saint Peter's church, Vienne (Isère) (EN)

311 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Cathédrale Saint-Maurice

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Vienne Cathedral is a medieval Roman Catholic church in the city of Vienne, France. Dedicated to Saint Maurice, it was the episcopal see of the primate of the ancient Septem Provinciae and of the Archdiocese of Vienne until its abolition confirmed by the Concordat of 1801. It today serves as co-cathedral of the Diocese of Grenoble-Vienne. The present-day building, erected from 1130 onwards, was classified a French national heritage site in the list of historic monuments of 1840.

Wikipedia: Vienne Cathedral (EN)

235 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Temple d'Auguste et de Livie

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The Temple of Augustus and Livia is a Roman peripteral sine postico hexastyle Corinthian temple built at the beginning of the 1st century, which was in the center of the ancient city of Vienne, also corresponding to the center of the modern city, in the French department of Isère and the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

Wikipedia: Temple of Augustus and Livia (EN)

157 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Chapelle Saint-Théodore

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The chapel was created in the fifteenth century by Canon Claude de Virieu and his sister Jeanne.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Saint-Théodore de Vienne (FR)

355 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 7: Pont suspendu de Vienne

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The Vienna suspension bridge is a bridge in the town of Vienne which crosses the Rhône and links Sainte-Colombe-lès-Vienne and Vienne.

Wikipedia: Pont suspendu de Vienne (FR)

255 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Tour des Valois

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Tour des Valois

La Tour de Valois is located in Sainte-Colombe, in the south of the Rhône department, on the right bank of the river, opposite Vienne.

Wikipedia: Tour des Valois (FR)

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