Balade - Les Canaux de Chateauvert

This tour is brought to you by the Valence Tourist Office. A brochure is available on our premises! All along the route along these waterways, you'll be able to observe a whole world of exceptional animals and plants, right in the heart of the city.

This walk will take you through the Chateauvert district, where you can admire springs from the Vercors, including the Malcontents fountain, as well as shared gardens and protected wetlands.
You'll enjoy the freshness of this bucolic stroll, and see a wealth of fauna (frogs, dragonflies, trout) and flora (calltriches, potamots, rubanier): a veritable corridor for biodiversity.


Leaving from the Tourist Office. Cross the crosswalk at the Fontaine Monumentale. Take rue Sévigné and turn left at rue du Refuge.
Turn right up Canal des Moulins (the canal is on your left), passing between the buildings to reach the Chamfort parking lot. Continue along the canal to cross Cours Voltaire, then Rue Chateauvert.
The canal is now on your right. Continue on the sidewalk along Rue des Moulins. Turn right onto Chemin du Ruisseau to rue Derodon.
Cross the street and turn slightly right to join the path alongside the canal, which is now on your left.
Cross Rue Jean Henri Fabre, and continue along the path until you come to Rue des Frères Montgolfier. Turn left up rue Montgolfier to the intersection with rue des Moulins.
Turn right and walk down the street until you come to Chemin du Thon.
Cross the latter and enter the park in front of you.
Follow the driveway through the park until you reach the canal. Turn right again and turn left into rue Marius Moutet.
Go up the street and cross rue Louis Ageron. Continue along rue Marius Moutet until you reach the impasse de la Petite Marquise on your left.
This leads to Chemin de Robinson.

Turn right onto Chemin de Laplat.
Cross the road and enter the Fédération de Pêche parking lot.
Take the left-hand path and follow the loop back to the Petite Marquise canal.
Turn left and follow the canal (which is on your right). Cross rue Auguste Giraud. Continue ahead on the path. At the end, turn right, then left to reach the start of the allée Adolphe Pegoud.
Take a few steps to your right and you'll be on Avenue Jean Clément.

Turn left and stay on the sidewalk along the canal. Avenue des Baumes is the continuation of Avenue Clément.
At the intersection with rue Paul Gataud (on the left), cross Avenue des Baumes and continue along the sidewalk.
Pass the soccer pitch, the veterinary clinic and the tabac Presse.
After the latter, turn right and follow the canal de la Grande Marquise, continue on Impasse d'Alzon, then at the end turn right up rue de Thibert until you cross rue Chateauvert.

Cross and turn left. Take the 2nd lane on the left (before the butcher's shop) to follow the Canal des Malcontents Nord. After the children's playground, turn left into the park and walk up the driveway.
Take Rue Sainte Thérèse on the left as far as Rue Chateauvert, then turn right up this street.
On the left, follow Résidence Chateauvert along the canal (do not turn right into Résidence Chateauvert). Cross Rue de Serbie, continue straight on until you reach Rue Jean Joseph Génissieu.
Turn right and follow this up to Place de la Paix. Continue straight ahead on Cours Voltaire until you come to Rue du Clos Gaillard.
Turn left into Rue Paul Bert. Turn right in the direction of the train station and return to your starting point.