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Recipe for Vercors-Sassenage AOC blue cheese ravioles (small ravioli):
Ingredients for 4 people:
250 g Royans ravioles
20 cl full cream
1 chicken stock cube
80 g walnut kernels
80 g of Vercors-Sassenage blue cheese (PDO)
Salt, pepper.
Start by placing each sheet of ravioles in the freezer for 30 minutes - they will be easier to separate. Cut the cheese into small cubes and remove the rind. Melt the fresh cream with the cheese cubes together over a low heat, stirring regularly. Boil the chicken broth in salted water. Take the ravioles out of the freezer, separate them and plunge them into the boiling water. Take them out with a skimmer when they rise to the surface. Distribute them in shallow soup dishes.
Add the crushed walnuts, pepper and a small ladle of the water used to cook the ravioles to the cream. Mix and pour over the ravioles.

History, culture and heritage

La Maison du Patrimoine in Villard-de-Lans: The heritage visitors centre is in the old town hall. It presents the history of the Quatre-Montagnes with two main themes: daily life (farming, crafts, etc.) and events that have marked the area (the Resistance, Olympic Games, development of tourism, etc.).
The museum also hosts temporary artistic and heritage exhibitions.

Just a few kilometres away, in Corrençon-en-Vercors, the last village before the Hauts-plateaux du Vercors nature reserve, you can swap your bike for golf clubs to play on an 18-hole golf course stretched between meadows and forests.

Lans-en-Vercors church, with an 11th-century bell tower, is a listed historic monument. The bell tower is a reminder of the age of the village which was the most important on the plateau for many years before being surpassed by Villard-de-Lans. The old village station is a more playful attraction with an automaton museum.

The magic of automatons: visitors of all ages are amazed by this exhibition of animated automatons in a variety of scenes. Visitors press a button and each scene comes to life with light and sound: a chamois climbing a mountain, a tamer cracking his whip in front of pink panthers, rocking crocodiles, pot-holing teddy bears in the caves of Choranche, and more. It's simply magical!