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Taulignan

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Taulignan - Tourism, holidays & weekends guide in the Drôme
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Taulignan is a beautiful little medieval village south-east of Montélimar, in Provençale Drôme. Fortified in the 14th century, it still has an exceptional built heritage today. Indeed, you cannot fail to admire the 700 metres of enclosing walls that surround the historic centre. These fortifications are interspersed with eleven round towers, with one on either side of the Anguille Gate which faces the Route Nyons.

Inside the ramparts, the village centre dotted with pretty side streets will reveal remarkable traces of its past to you, like the 15th-century Church of St. Vincent, built on the ruins of a priory, or the many houses with Renaissance façades.

In the 19th century, Taulignan enjoyed great prosperity thanks to silk milling. The Silk Museum and Workshop tells the story of this period, looking at the history of the workers, the operation of the machines and the techniques used to make silk.

But before you leave Taulignan, take a seat in the shade of the plane and lime trees and enjoy a glass of Côtes du Rhône Villages from the nearby vineyard (responsibly of course).

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Taulignan

Commune of the Drôme Provençale, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, Taulignan takes place near Grignan, not far from Réauville and Aleyrac. This charming medieval village is located about thirty kilometers from Montélimar and its famous nougat.

Populated since the Gallo-Roman era, as evidenced by the remains of a temple found on the spot, the territory of Taulignan developed in the course of the Middle Ages. Known for the resistance brought to the Breton companies at the end of the 14th century, the town lived its golden age in the 19th century thanks to the silk milling.

Today important tourist site of the Drôme, Taulignan seduces by the charm of its authentic medieval streets, by its architectural inheritance, as much as by the charm of its scented fields of lavender.

Things to see and do

Discover the ancient center of this medieval village that has retained eleven towers of its ramparts built in the fourteenth century. Do not miss that of Enguille, considered one of the best preserved medieval war works in the region. In the alleys, you can admire old houses of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries or discover the Protestant temple built in the second half of the nineteenth century by Nicolas Fontanille and now listed in the Historical Monuments.

Built in the twelfth century on the remains of a Gallo-Roman temple, the chapel Saint-Marcel reveals a vault and flying buttresses of the sixteenth century. Not far, you can see the monastery of Clarté Notre-Dame founded in the 1950s and still welcoming a community of Dominican nuns.

The former bridge factory that was working on silk milling in the 19th century now houses the Silk Museum, which traces the history of this industry in the region.

To enjoy the fauna and flora, direction the Taulignan wood and its landscaped areas. The town also has a climbing gym and tennis courts.

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