Venosc is a small town situated in the French Alps. This town is situated in the heart of the natural park of Ecrins.

This town is looked by tourists for the practice of several activities such as: Mountaineering, Escalation, Fishing, Sky, Road Ferrata, Aquatic Sports, and BTT.

In fact this zone is an excellent place for the practice of the BTT, in his several slopes (Downhill, All-mountain, etc.), this because it disposes of several rails in excellent conditions and well identified, as they can see in the movie …

But now we go to a little while of history of the region …

In the old times, the tribes Ligúria were living in the valley. They established a way that climbed to the Deux Alps. The valley was closed to persons from the outside and the persons were living under the form of dictatorship. The first inhabitants of the valley arrived here 7500 years aC (before Christ). O vale estava fechada a pessoas de fora e as pessoas viviam sob uma forma de ditadura. Os primeiros habitantes do vale chegaram aqui 7500 anos aC (antes de Cristo).

Between the centuries XIII and XV there appeared the first villagers and the first communities. They had a hard life due to the difficult access to the valley, many natural risks as the steep slopes and the intense work demanded to cultivate the land.

During the centuries XVII and XVIII to many visitors they reached the valley. They were engineers, Topographers, botanists and geologists. His objective was it of studying the area. O seu objectivo era o de estudar a área.

During the century XIX, the jewel of Venosc Hawking was made to capital of the region. A hawker is a walking seller. Then, the farmers, hunters and shepherds of goats, became guides of the mountains. In 1877 Pierre Gaspard de St Christophe in Oisans scaled wool Meije, a peak of the area. Nessa altura, os agricultores, caçadores e pastores de cabras, tornaram-se guias das montanhas. Em 1877 Pierre Gaspard de St Christophe em Oisans escalou la Meije, um cume da área.

During the century XX (exactly between 1900 and 1923) the road for Berarde was built. It was the beginning of the tourist affluence. The creation of the resort of ski East Deux Alps created many jobs for the local inhabitants who became instructors of ski. A criação do resort de esqui Les Deux Alpes criou muitos empregos para os habitantes locais que se tornaram instrutores de esqui.

In 1972 the cable car between Venosc and East Deux Alps, when the possibility of the tourists was offered will see discovering Veneon and his curious shops and hotels.

The creation of the National Park of the Ecrins in 1973 brought still more recognition to the area. The tourists whom they see to the Venosc it looked for the wild scenery naturally, to many walks and rails of tranquillity. The National Park of Ecrins is the biggest national park in France. O Parque Nacional de Ecrins é o maior parque nacional em França.

And here we have the movie in which we can appreciate 8 minutes of descent …

In terms of conditions for the BTT this zone is very well equipped and we can find:

25Km of marked rails of Venosc for Bourg d'Oisans;

A trace of down Deux Alps (3200m) for Venosc (720m);

It is possible to contact a guide for 20€ (midday).

For whom it will be interested in going through these rails it can go for the place for the next distance:

Airplane up to Paris, and train up to Grenoble (3 hour of train), of Grenoble even Venosc is 60km. To go through them 60Km we can go of bicycle, or catch a bus (it will be complicated to take the bicycle), or still to rent a car.

The one who wants to plan the travel in advance gets quite cheap travels in the LowCost, and some of them transport athletic equipments (bicycles) by means of the payment of an additional value (generally around 20€), the train even Grenoble also must not be a great fortune …

I leave to you here the sites of the enterprise of trains (SNCF) that operates in the piece of junk Paris-Grenoble and of the enterprise of buses (VFD) that does the connection of Grenoble for Venosc. Oh, and the “post of tourism of the region in venosc.com.

It is possible also to fly for Lyon, which is more near to what Paris, but they will investigate the rest of the course …

Are we already going to plan the proximas holidays???