In this video you can ride along on Route du Soleil (A7 E15) from Valence to the junction with Autoroute A9 at Orange. The A7 South of Lyon is a busy holiday route in the summer connecting the East of France and Lyon itself to the French Riviera and beyond.

For countries like Belgium and the Netherlands this is often also the quickest route to the popular holiday destinations in the Southeast of France, which is why it can be a very crowded road. It has a full alignment of 2 x 3 from Lyon to Orange where it meets the A9 and continues in the direction of Marseille, another top 5 city in France.

The A7 follows the Rhône valley on the Western side of the Alps and is relatively flat. West of the highway (right side) we pass the French Ardèche region. Valence is a historic city with buildings dating back from as far as the 11th century and has over 60.000 inhabitants. Orange is a city with almost 30.000 inhabitants and shows up in the history books dating back as far as Roman times.

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Map courtesy of openstreetmap.org

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