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HORSEBACK RIDING IN FRANCE

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Horseback Riding

Many rural areas offer équitation, a pleasant way to leave the hustle-bustle of tourist areas and auto roads for a relaxing jaunt through the French countryside. For details on renting horses, contact:

In Alsace-Lorraine and Franche-Comté:

Association Départemental de Tourisme Equestre 4 rue des Violettes, 67201 Eckbolsheim; phone 03-88-77-39-64 Le Petit Cheval Blanc 39800 Fay-en-Montagne; phone 03-84-85-32-07

In Brittany:

Centre Equestre des Menhirs (Carnac) phone 02-97-55-73-45 Dinard Centre Equestre de la Côte d'Emeraude (Dinard) phone 02-99-46-23-57

In Corsica:

Ferme Equestre de Baracci (Propriano) phone 04-95-76-08-02 Ferme Equestre de l'Ostriconi 20218 Lama; phone 04-95-48-22-99 Poney-Club d'Ajaccio (Ajaccio) Campo dell'Oro; phone 04-95-23-03-10 Société Hippique Urbaine de Bastia La Marana (Bastia) phone 04-95-33-53-08 or 04-95-30-37-62

In Ile-de-France:

Club Hippique de Versailles 59 rue Rémont, 78000 Versailles; phone 01-39-51-17-02

In Loire Valley:

Chambord (former stables of the Maréchal de Saxe) phone 02-54-20-31-01

In Lyon-Alps region:

Centres Equestres Ile Montmélian, Montélimar (Rhône valley) Centres Equestres Ecuries du Couzon, La Petite Rente, Vienne (Rhône valley) Chambéry rue Sainte-Rose, Chambéry (the Alps)

In Normandy:

La Ligne d'Equestre de Normandie 10 pl. de Demi-Lune, 14039 Caen; phone 02-31-84-61-87

In Provence:

Barthelasse Chemin du Mont Blanc, Avignon; phone 04-90-85-83-48 Sellerie Lou Mazet (excursions of the Camargue) 13680 Lançon-de-Provence; phone 04-90-42-89-38

On the Riviera:

Poney Club du Soleil Domaine de Barbossi, near Mandelieu-La Napoule

In Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, and Rousillon:

Poney City St-Paul (25mi./40km east of Toulouse); phone 05-63-42-06-45 CORAMIP (full listing of riding stables) 12 rue Slammbô, 31200 Toulouse; phone 05-61-47-11-12

Author: Ian C. Mills © 1998-2000 All Rights Reserved
Bibliography: Fodor's 99 France, Editor: Natasha Lesser, Fodor's Travel Publications, New York. Paris From $70 A Day, Jeanne Oliver, 1998, Macmillan Travel, A Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company, New York. France 1998 Discovery Guide, French Government Tourist Office, New York. Passport's France Trip Planner & Guide, Emma Stanford, 1994, NTC Publishing Group, Chicago. Let's Go - The Budget Guide to France 1997, Thomas F. Moore, 1997, Let's Go Publications, Cambridge, MA, printed by St. Martin's Press, New York.
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