In Tournon, on the river Rhone is broad and runs slowly between the city and the covered slopes of vineyards of Tain-l’ Hermitage which face it. Here was built, in 1824, the first suspension bridge, by the inventor Marc Seguin, to which one owes also the first vapour boat on the river and the first French railway between Lyon and St Etienne. Above of the river a chateau of the 15 th century which shelters the museum showing the shipping and mariners of Rhone.