Vercors Treasure Island

Located at mid-mountain, the Vercors aspects high mountain especially in the eastern part,which is also called "French Dolomites". It is also characterized by large areas with undulating hills and tormented its highlands in the southeast and its large pastures in the southwest.

For 10 million years, glaciers, water and snow have eroded, carved embossed tone and thy Urgonian limestone erected in a parade of walls turned Vercors into a citadel.

A period of global warming, ice made large holes which, for over a century, have become the spectacular gorges access the mass of Vercors.
Inside the great plateax its long valleys and vast forest have always offered the strangers the shelter and substenance.

"Vertacomocorii" the members of a Celtic tribe from the north, settled on the plates 600 years before our era and are the origin of name "Vercors"

Land of liberty, Vercors have gathered the largest underground French resistance during World War II. Its become a "High-rise Memory."

Haven and Foodland, people have shaped its agricultural land and forest alive. And are thus in 1970, through their will, was created  the" Parc Naturel Regional du Vercors", to promote sustainable development policy on Vercors territory.

"Vercors" you are the Treasure Island! 

Col Vert of Vercors