Viviers (French pronunciation: [vivje], also Viviers-sur-Rhône; Occitan: Vivièrs) is a village in the department of Ardèche in southern France.

The village's name is derived from the Latin Vivarium, referring to fish farming ponds built on the banks of the Rhône by the Romans to supply Alba Helviorum.

After its incorporation into the Kingdom of France, Viviers reinforced its walls, sparing it from destruction during the Hundred Years' War.

Later in the same century, Noel Albert, an eminent citizen of Viviers, seized the town for Protestantism, bringing it into the French Wars of Religion and ransacking the Cathedral.

[5] Today, the town is a center of tourism, owing to its many listed monuments, including the medieval Cathedral of St. Vincent and the Grande Rue, a street lined with 18th-century townhouses.