Village of Drôme, on left bank of the Rhone, Ancône is located at 45 km at the south of Valence and 4 km of Montélimar. Like its Italian homonym, Ancône is located in an elbow, a handle which the Rhone formed. It was a flourishing port in the epoch of shipping and ways of market dues. The port d’Ancône was vaunting then on 3 or 4 kilometers. FREDERIC MISTRAL speaks about it in one about its poems well-known "Lou Pouèmo dou Rose". Thereafter the Rhone was diverted with the boats with vapor, then with the construction of the diversion canal which leads to the dam Chateauneuf of the Rhone.