Bugey360 is an independent media outlet covering Southern Bugey and the Valromey, in the south-east of the Ain département in eastern France. It answers practical questions from residents and visitors: where to go, where to eat, what to do this weekend, how to get around, which formalities to complete, whom to contact.
The site does not speak on behalf of any organisation. It is not the Bugey Sud Grand Colombier tourist office, nor the Bugey Sud community of communes (the grouping of local municipalities), nor a town hall, nor a tourism business. When we report official information, we attribute it to its source and state the date on which we checked it.
Who publishes Bugey360
Bugey360 is published by Clément Lamotte, a sole trader based in Valromey-sur-Séran, who is also its publication director. The address and business identifiers are given in the legal notice.
Bugey360 is not funded by any local authority or tourist office. It is funded by its publisher and by the services offered to local businesses, always clearly labelled as such.
The area covered
The site focuses on Southern Bugey and the Valromey, organised into four sectors:
- Belley and the banks of the Rhône: Belley, Virieu-le-Grand, Brégnier-Cordon and the neighbouring wine villages;
- the Grand Colombier and the Lavours marsh: Culoz-Béon, Lavours, Ceyzérieu, Vongnes, Flaxieu;
- the Valromey: Artemare, Champagne-en-Valromey, Valromey-sur-Séran, Arvière-en-Valromey;
- the Retord plateau: Haut Valromey and the Plans d’Hotonnes.
This area largely overlaps with that of the Bugey Sud community of communes, which has 41 municipalities according to its official website, without being strictly limited to it. The municipalities covered in detail are listed on our page on the towns and villages of Southern Bugey.
Neighbouring areas, such as the Haut-Bugey, the Hauteville plateau or Savoie on the other side of the Rhône, are not covered. We mention them only when a route or a service passes through them.
The “360” network of sites
Bugey360 belongs to a small family of sites carrying the “360” suffix. The others are devoted to resorts in Haute-Savoie. Each site covers a single area, with its own research and its own texts: no content is duplicated from one site to another, and links between them appear only when they genuinely help the reader.
How the site is made
There is no CMS, no editorial database and no automatic publishing. Every page, every directory listing and every event in the calendar is a version-controlled text file: every change leaves a dated record and can be reviewed or reversed.
No data is displayed live: no weather, no road conditions and no real-time availability. For that information, we refer you to the official sources. How we work, including our use of artificial intelligence tools, is described on the our method page.
Independence and funding
Inclusion in the directory is free and is an editorial choice. The site may offer services to businesses, presented on the business services page. Any paid content is labelled as such, and payment never buys a favourable description. The full rules are set out in our editorial policy (page in French).
Contact us
For a question, an event suggestion or a comment, use the contact page. To point out inaccurate information, use the report an error page; our corrections page (page in French) explains how we handle reports.