famous road
Combe Laval Balcony Road
A jaw-dropping Vercors road (D76) carved into a sheer cliff face 600 m above the Cholet valley, threading tunnels and rock galleries to the Col de la Machine.
19 km · about 20 min drive
Rhône-Alpes, France · Europe
Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Chatte, 19km from Combe Laval Balcony Road.
Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye is a town located in Rhône-Alpes, France. With a population of 1,008, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye sits in France, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Paris time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye to your route.
Saint Antoine l'Abbaye (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿ɑ̃twan labei], before 1991: Saint-Antoine), also Saint-Antoine-en-Viennois, is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 31 December 2015 the former commune of Dionay was merged into Saint Antoine l'Abbaye.
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it was renamed after becoming the home of purported relics of Saint Anthony the Great in the 11th century, and shortly afterwards of the original house of the Hospital Brothers of St. Anthony, founded here in 1095 as the result of miraculous cures from St. Anthony's Fire ascribed to the relics.
It was established as a Benedictine community, with monks responsible for the care of the shrine and its relics, while the Brothers tended to those suffering from St. Anthony’s fire, a condition common at the time. Over the course of the next two centuries, disputes between the Antonines and the Benedictines arose repeatedly. The Antonines were formed into an Order of canons regular in 1297. At that time the Benedictine monks were removed from the shrine, which was entrusted to the Antonines. In 1890, the Canons Regular of the Immaculate Conception were given the Abbey of St. Antony, which was the motherhouse of the congregation. It maintained that role from 1890 until 1903, when, following the anti-clerical laws passed by the French government in 1901, the community was transferred to Andora, in the Italian region of Liguria.
In July 2025, an annual France 2 series, "Le Village préféré des Français", named the village as most popular amongst the French.
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Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye is located in Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe. The coordinates are 45.1667 latitude, 5.2167 longitude.
Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye has a population of approximately 1,008 people, making it a town in France.
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famous road
A jaw-dropping Vercors road (D76) carved into a sheer cliff face 600 m above the Cholet valley, threading tunnels and rock galleries to the Col de la Machine.
19 km · about 20 min drive
cafe
A historic cafe on the Route Napoleon near Laffrey where Napoleon famously confronted royalist troops in 1815, on one of France's most scenic driving routes.
47 km · about 55 min drive
April to October
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