Tourism in Saône-et-Loire

Saône-et-Loire is one of the four departments of Burgundy. Tourism in this region is founded on its varied landscape (the Saône plain, the Mâconnais, and the Charolais), its gastronomy with the prestigious mâconnais wines, the charolais beef, the poulet de Bresse (Bresse chicken), and its rich architectural sites, (Autun, Cluny, Paray-le-Monial, and Tournus)

Natural sites

 * The Arboretum de Pézanin,
 * Azé’s grottes
 * The Régional Natural Park of the Morvan
 * The Saint-Cyr Mount, the top of southern Burgundy
 * The Roche de Solutré

Cities and villages

 * Mâcon, city in wine site
 * Charolles, cradle of the charolais beef
 * Autun, Morvan’s door
 * Berzé-le-Châtel, strengthen village
 * Cluny, and its millennium abbey
 * Dompierre-les-Ormes, with the ‘’Galerie Européenne de la Forêt et du bois’’ and the Arboretum de Pézanin

Public opened castle

 * Château de Sully
 * Château de Pierreclos
 * Château de Cormatin
 * Château de Drée
 * Château de Saint-Point
 * Château de Couches
 * Château de Pierre-de-Bresse

Important tourist sites

 * The Galerie européenne de la forêt et du bois (European Gallery of forest and wood)
 * The Cluny abbey, et the Haras of Cluny,
 * The Taizé community,
 * EuroVelo 6 and green ways
 * Wine: the hameau Dubœuf, in Romanèche-Thorins, wines of the chalonais and maconnais

Wine


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Chalonnais :