Via Sancti Martini en Pays Voironnais

The Via Sancti Martini is a path labeled "Cultural Itinerary of the Council of Europe". It follows in the footsteps of Saint-Martin, bishop of Tours from the 4th century, a great traveller and universal figure, known for sharing his cloak in favor of a disadvantaged person.

Connecting Szombathély, birthplace of Martin in Hungary, to Tours, the French city where his tomb is located, she travels from east to west for 2500km.

The Pays Voironnais and the Vals du Dauphiné offer 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 near the Paladru lake)
- Day 2: 19km / +407m and - 564m

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

To discover on your way:
- landscapes with mountains and combes, covered with woods and meadows, offering many panoramas on the pre-Alps and Mont-Blanc, especially from the chapel of the Troix croix and the Tour du Sacré-Coeur;
- small hamlets, fortified houses and castles with typical adobe architecture of the Bas-Dauphiné;
- the green nature, the rolling meadows where cows graze or the blue waters of Lake Paladru;
- the Archaeological Museum of Paladru Lake, which exhibits the remains of the first people living on its shores for a journey to the Neolithic and An Mil;
- the memory of Saint-Martin represented locally by the fresco illustrating the scene of the sharing in the church of Saint-Martin de Vaulserre and the Mont Saint-Martin that the road bypasses.

Markup:

Full route marking will be done very soon.
Meanwhile, at each intersection between several hiking trails, a post indicates the next direction. The following signage poles should therefore be followed:

PONT DE BEAUVOISIN Station > La Guinguette > Les Sables > Le Grabier > Le Menou > The Forests > Old St-Jean > L'Antiquaire > Sacré-Coeur > La Sauge > Petit Velanne > Vicharière > Le Buisson > L'Ourcière > Les Rajans > Côtes Galloya > Vernatet > St-StPierre de Paladru > Bois Châtel > Le Sourilloud > Le Gréhaut > Chemin du Lavoir > Le Brocard > Cross of the Jubilee > Les Sources > Chassignieu > La Mollat > Tancin > Cote 568 > Les Hauts d'Envelumps > Beauregard > Gare de Virieu sur Bourbre

Via Sancti Martini en Isère - itinéraire culturel européen