Where are we?

Puy Saint Martin is located on the road D6 between Crest(15 km) and Montélimar(21 km).
Coming from the north driving on highway A7, exit A7 at Montélimar Nord, drive towards Montélimar and turn left at La Coucourde in direction of Sauzet. When in Sauzet, turn left and drive towards Crest.
Coming from the south driving on highway A7, exit A7 at Montélimar Sud, drive through the city of Montélimar and take the direction of Crest.
The closest TGV railway station is Saint Marcel Les Valence (45km). Some TGV trains stop at Montélimar.
The closest international airport is Saint Exupéry (Lyon Satolas - 150km)

The village

Puy Saint Martin has at the present time a population of more than 900 inhabitants. The land in the commune is shared between agriculture (650 hectares) and forest (400 hectares). The fields on the plain are used partly for the production of seeds: alfalfa seeds, cereals, and also flowers, in particular sweet peas. Parsley, sage, lemon balm and celery are also grown, to be marketed in plant form. The fruit trees of former times have been replaced by tomatoes, sunflowers or sorghum.

The hills on the horizon towards the north and the east now bear only a few isolated plots of grassland or cultivation. If you walk towards the Chevriere quarter, you can still see the low walls of the former terraces. But all this part of the commune has become forestland during the past few decades: oaks stand next to Austrian pines, introduced a century ago, and especially the Aleppo pine, which populates the remarkable Pigne forest.

The inhabitants of Puy saint Martin are proud of their heritage. On the hill there is a great activity with the dim of bringing the old village back to life: clearing away the undergrowth on the plots of land, reopening the streets and the lanes in the Châstelas, creating an aromatic garden on the summit, not to mention a project for an arboretum on the north-facing slope, restoration of the wash-houses and fountains ...
Along the road which goes straight across the plain, without the slightest bend, to the next village, Cléon d'Andran, the business area is to be found. It is in this easily accessible quarter that, little by little, the new village facilities have been set up: shops, center for extra-curricular activities...