Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Vienne, France

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Number of sights 16 sights
Distance 5.3 km
Ascend 135 m
Descend 175 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: Château de la Bâtie

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The Château de la Bâtie is a former fortified or built castle of the thirteenth century, the ruins of which stand in the commune of Vienne sur le Rhône in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region.

Wikipedia: Château de la Bâtie (Vienne) (FR)

426 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Pont Saint-Martin

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The Pont-Saint-Martin is a bridge in the commune of Vienne that crosses the river Gère and connects the rue Joseph Martin to the church of Saint-Martin and the Place Saint-Martin in the Vallée de Gère district.

Wikipedia: Pont Saint-Martin (Vienne) (FR)

247 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 3: Musée de l'industrie textile

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The Museum of the Textile Industry, one of the five museums or sites of the city of Vienna, is located in Vienna in the Gere Valley. It has been installed in the former Proplan factory since 2019.

Wikipedia: Musée de l'industrie textile (FR)

590 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 4: Théatre antique

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The ancient theater of Vienna (Isère) was built in the 1st century of the Christian era in several stages.

Wikipedia: Théâtre antique de Vienne (FR)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Villa Vaganay

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Villa Vaganay is an early twentieth century villa located in Vienne, Isère. The ornamentation and furnishings in the Art Nouveau style appealed to the artists of the School of Nancy. Since 2003, the building has been labelled "Heritage of the Twentieth Century" of Isère.

Wikipedia: Villa Vaganay (FR)

189 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Jardin de Cybèle

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The Archaeological Garden of Cybèle is made up of archaeological remains from the Gallo-Roman period, located in the commune of Vienne, in the French department of Isère.

Wikipedia: Jardin archéologique de Cybèle (FR)

101 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Théâtre de Vienne

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The Théâtre de Vienne is a theatre in autonomous personalised management, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional stage and resource stage of the Isère department located in Vienne, Isère. It programs a contemporary and classical repertoire and creative theatre.

Wikipedia: Théâtre municipal de Vienne (FR), Website

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: 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 9: 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)

175 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: 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)

427 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 11: 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)

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: 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)

718 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Pyramide de Vienne

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The Roman Circus of Vienne is an ancient Roman monument in the city of Vienne (Isère), built at the end of the 2nd century. It is known from excavations in the nineteenth century. Only a unique remnant remains visible today, commonly known as the Pyramid of Vienna, and locally simply "the Pyramid" or "the Tomb of Pilate". It is the only ancient Egyptian monument left standing in France.

Wikipedia: Cirque romain de Vienne (FR)

997 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 14: 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)

344 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: 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 16: 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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