Tournon, France at night
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Tournon - aka Tournon-sur-Rhône - is a town in the Rhône-Alpes région in SE France, located on the west bank of the Rhône River, and 85 km south of Lyon. The Great Bridge of Tournon features with a span of 49.2 m, one of the largest bridge arch in the world before 1600. Tournon's main attraction is a a feudal castle overlooking the town and the river. The castle, whose foundations date back to the 10th Century, has a section built in the Renaissance period that houses the town museum. One room in the museum is devoted to Marc Seguin, a local engineer who built the first suspension bridge across the Rhône and invented the tubular boiler for steam locomotives. Other sights in Tournon sur Rhône include the Collegiate Church of Saint-Julien and the Lycée Gabriel-Fauré, a school that was founded in 1536 by the Cardinal of Tournon and which claims to be the oldest lycée in France. Across the Passerrele Marc Seguin footbridge is Tain l'Hermitage, a modern town with a popular outlet store at the Valrhona chocolate factory. Nearby wine merchants offer tastings of Côtes de Rhône wines from the Hermitage vineyards.
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