The team welcomes and informs you in the heart of the ancient abbey town of Saint-Chef. There's also a store selling hiking maps, heritage books and souvenirs featuring the village and Frédéric Dard.
The Romanesque frescoes in the Chapel of the Angels can only be visited with a guide. Tours are available from July to the end of October. Contact us for dates and times!

Guided tours for groups are available all year round (abbey and frescoes, museum), by reservation on 04 74 90 45 13.

The CAPI Tourist Office aims to welcome, inform and promote tourism in the area and its surroundings to tourists passing through or staying in the area, as well as to the people living in the territory of CAPI.
If you’d like to make the most of your free time, you can also find all the information you need about daily life, culture and tourism in the local area.
The Tourist Office team is also on hand to assist with specific enquiries such as:
- Ticket Office: Théâtre du Vellein and Théâtre Jean-Vilar / Association Ticket Offices. More info: https://capi-agglo.fr/billetteries/
- The Shop: Sale of map guides: CAPI + Rando Focus and Caval’en CAPI / Vals du Dauphiné / Les Balcons du Dauphiné / Collines du Nord-Dauphiné.
- An exhibition space, ‘Espace Carnot’: Art exhibitions (painting, sculpture, photography, etc.). For individuals and associations.

Located in the heart of the village, in a 16th-century house, the museum retraces almost 15 centuries of Saint-Chef's history: the origins of the abbey, the interpretation of the Romanesque frescoes in the church, local traditions, Louis Seigner and Frédéric Dard.
The museum is a must for exploring the rich history of Saint-Chef.

Housed in the former residence of the Seigneur de By, the collections are divided into two large themed rooms.

The history of the village begins in the 6th century with the creation of a hermitage. Take a journey through the 15 centuries of Saint-Chef's history, and witness the different periods of construction of one of the most important abbeys of the Middle Ages in the region.

A 3D reconstruction will enable you to discover one of the finest treasures of Romanesque art: the frescoes in the upper chapel of the abbey church.
These 12th-century Romanesque frescoes are unique in France.

You'll end your visit by discovering the rich local heritage of winegrowing and adobe construction.

Other rooms are devoted to the town's illustrious characters:
- Frédéric Dard, alias San Antonio, is buried in the cemetery of Saint-Chef, his home town, with the only public collection of the most widely-read writer of the 20th century, his life story, his novels, his desk and his typewriter.
- The actors and actresses in the Seigner family, including Louis,
- The writer Marius Rolliet.

The Saint-Chef museum offers a fun, varied visitor experience suitable for everyone, in the Balcons du Dauphiné, less than an hour from Lyon.

The Museum is located in the heart of the city and is organised around 2 main themes: textiles, weaving and finishing, which forged the industrial identity of the region, and the work of Victor Charreton, landscape painter and founder of the Museum.

From the 7-hectare lake created in the 18th century to the dense canopy of the Tire-Gerbes forest, passing by the banks of the ruisseau de l'enfer, or Hell's stream, you can discover protected species such as the European Pond Turtle or the Southern damselfly.
Distance: 3.3km
In the past, women came to rinse their clothes in the adobe washhouse, hemp was laid out to dry before the stalks were removed, people fished and hunted...
Nowadays, Montcarradiaud schoolchildren come here for natural science lessons, villagers fish or take a walk.

This pond is protected: with the renovation and maintenance of the dyke.

Heritage species are surveyed: European pond turtle, Great crested grebe, Agile frog, Dragonflies...