The team welcomes and informs you in the heart of the ancient abbey town of Saint-Chef. There's also a store selling hiking maps, heritage books and souvenirs featuring the village and Frédéric Dard.
The Romanesque frescoes in the Chapel of the Angels can only be visited with a guide. Tours are available from July to the end of October. Contact us for dates and times!

Guided tours for groups are available all year round (abbey and frescoes, museum), by reservation on 04 74 90 45 13.

Vals du Dauphiné tourism office in La Tour-du-Pin will guide you through the discovery of the city and its territory Les Vals du Dauphiné : advices and orientations, guides & brochures, suggestions, gift shop...
Ideally located between Lyon, Grenoble and Chambéry, La Tour-du-Pin offers the charm of a historic center easily accessible by train or from the highway, in the heart of a territory with multiple gems "Les Vals du Dauphiné". A stop is essential at the pastry shops to enjoy the Miron, specialty of the city. The architecture, legends and history will allow you to fully understand the characteristics of the urban center.
Do not miss the church overlooking the city, which houses the famous triptych of the XVI° classified as a historical monument and the contemporary triptych made in 2001 by the great master of sacred art Arcabas.
This break will also be an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful views on the Alps, as well as the many castles and fortified houses nestled in a green landscape.

Located in the heart of the village, in a 16th-century house, the museum retraces almost 15 centuries of Saint-Chef's history: the origins of the abbey, the interpretation of the Romanesque frescoes in the church, local traditions, Louis Seigner and Frédéric Dard.
The museum is a must for exploring the rich history of Saint-Chef.

Housed in the former residence of the Seigneur de By, the collections are divided into two large themed rooms.

The history of the village begins in the 6th century with the creation of a hermitage. Take a journey through the 15 centuries of Saint-Chef's history, and witness the different periods of construction of one of the most important abbeys of the Middle Ages in the region.

A 3D reconstruction will enable you to discover one of the finest treasures of Romanesque art: the frescoes in the upper chapel of the abbey church.
These 12th-century Romanesque frescoes are unique in France.

You'll end your visit by discovering the rich local heritage of winegrowing and adobe construction.

Other rooms are devoted to the town's illustrious characters:
- Frédéric Dard, alias San Antonio, is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Chef, his home town, with the only public collection of the most widely-read writer of the 20th century, his life story, his novels, his desk and his typewriter.
- The actors and actresses in the Seigner family, including Louis,
- The writer Marius Rolliet.

The Saint-Chef museum offers a fun, varied visitor experience suitable for everyone, in the Balcons du Dauphiné, less than an hour from Lyon.

In a former weaving factory are presented more than 200 years of silk weaving History.
Set up in a former weaving factory, this museum presents a unique industrial heritage that bears witness to more than 200 years of textile history in the Nord-Dauphiné region.

This technical museum keeps alive the memory of those who worked (and still do) this marvelous fabric that is silk. The hand looms and mechanical looms come back to work to let you discover, during your visit, the confection of prestigious fabrics such as Broché, Damas or Lampas.

This museum retraces the History of the clog, a shoe made with a leather upper and a wooden sole.
The clog, hoof's cousin... We often mistake one for the other, yet the difference is simple : the hoof is entirely shaped from a piece of wood, while the clog is composed of a wooden sole on which is nailed the upper part, the "Tige", made of leather. The clog, disregarded in most shoe museums, is highlighted in Isère in the only place entirely dedicated to it in France : the Clog museum.
Great by the evocative power, this summary of heritage carries the memory of the clog's industrial activity. This museum is a place of memory, with the identical reconstruction of the workshop of a galochier (persons who makes clogs), which makes it a unique site in France. This workshop takes the visitor back in time. Leather coupons, wooden soles, laces, nails, sewing machine, grooving lathe, coal stove ... with of course a multitude of models of galoshes. Hundreds of tools arranged according to the stages of the confection, everything is there, as if the galochier was going to cross the door to get back to work.
Visitors can feel the old atmosphere through this warm and out of time workshop. An exceptional visit and a rare moment in a wonderful heritage that pays a moving tribute to our ancestors.

From the 7-hectare lake created in the 18th century to the dense canopy of the Tire-Gerbes forest, passing by the banks of the ruisseau de l'enfer, or Hell's stream, you can discover protected species such as the European Pond Turtle or the Southern damselfly.
Distance: 3.3km
In the past, women came to rinse their clothes in the adobe washhouse, hemp was laid out to dry before the stalks were removed, people fished and hunted...
Nowadays, Montcarradiaud schoolchildren come here for natural science lessons, villagers fish or take a walk.

This pond is protected: with the renovation and maintenance of the dyke.

Heritage species are surveyed: European pond turtle, Great crested grebe, Agile frog, Dragonflies...