The best walks and hikes around Chassignieu

Very beautiful guest house. The owners are adorable, you can also approach very beautiful alpacas

The Church of Saint-Christophe de Le Pin The Church of Saint-Christophe de Le Pin was built in the 18th century (after 1759). Entrance is via a bell tower with a porch, on which a recently restored, painted sundial from 1832 contrasts beautifully with the clock above. The four pillars of the entrance portal support an entablature. The single-aisled nave opens onto a transept with a semicircularly vaulted chancel; the walls are partly made of rammed earth. Inside, there are four paintings in the transept and chancel. They depict a Pietà, the Assumption of the Virgin, the Presentation of the Child, and the Release of Saint Peter from Herod's Prison by an Angel. The last three paintings appear to be by the same artist.

Here we encounter three stone cubes stacked on top of each other, each smaller than the one below it. The gray cubes each have a white field in the center of their sides, with a cross carved into it, painted blue and standing out against the gray/white background. This construction forms the basis for the present small sacred monument: above it rises a radiant gold figure of the Madonna. From this prominent position, the Virgin Mary – venerated in France almost always under the title "Notre-Dame" ("Our Lady") – gazes far into the country, and has done so for more than 120 years. @Rainer N. has already explained the date and reason for its construction in his short post.

The Church of Saint-Christophe de Le Pin, a 18th-century creation (after 1759), is entered through a bell tower, where a recently restored painted sundial from 1832 contrasts with the clock above. The four pillars of the entrance portal support an entablature. The single-aisled nave opens onto a transept with its semicircular vaulted choir; the walls are partly built of rammed earth.

The abbey basilica was rebuilt starting around 1490 and completed in 1510 by Bernardino Zaccagni. The famous artist Correggio left his mark on this church. He created five frescoes there, including the lunette with Saint John and the Eagle (1520), which is considered the first to be created. The frescoes, the dome depicting the Ascension of Christ, the decoration of the drum and pendants, and the frieze of images that extends around the entire interior perimeter are all artistic treasures worth discovering. The Way of St. James is very well documented in several places in the church.

A very popular lake to visit during the summer months when the lake is quite refreshing. Every year, there is a time trial around the lake.

This pretty viewpoint on the heights of Paladru allows you to admire the surrounding countryside. You can even see the Chartreuse massif in the background.

The first name John has been widespread since biblical times, and so it should not surprise us to find a whole series of blessed and saints with this name over the two millennia of Christianity. At the threshold from the Old to the New Testament we encounter John the Baptist (also John Baptist), to whom most of the John churches are dedicated. But one of the four men who wrote the New Testament gospels also bears this name. This church in ___ is dedicated to him, JOHN EVANGELIST. A long church tradition has regarded the evangelist as identical with the apostle John mentioned in the Bible, but this is doubted in biblical scholarship. "The Gospel of John exerts a peculiar fascination. It is difficult to escape its solemn, sometimes mystical language. It addresses deep human needs and longings: hunger and thirst, the search for fulfilling eternal life, the longing for personal communion with God.” (Franz-Josef Ortkemper)