REGION BOURGOGNE FRANCHE COMTE
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From dinosaurs and cave paintings to contemporary art and company visits, Burgundy-Franche-Comté offers discoveries for truly all tastes. Famous monastic land like Luxeuil-les-Bains, Cluny and Cîteaux, it is also dotted with castles of all types and from all periods, princely residences, medieval or modern strongholds. Museums, exhibitions and reconstructions show how farmers, winegrowers and artisans of times past lived and worked. Crystal, earthenware, salt works, steelworks or photography: the industrial heritage is just as rich, and famous people await their visitors in the “Maisons des Illustres”. Murals or Romanesque art, salt or the abolition of slavery, wine or the “green fairy”: thematic routes lead straight to the heart of the region's heritage and also its conviviality. |
Among the little-known and yet exceptional treasures of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté contains some very important sites dating from the most ancient times. Following in the footsteps of dinosaurs in the Jura Mountains, discovering caves and cave paintings in the region's limestone massifs, the history of Burgundy-Franche-Comté becomes clearer and clearer, year after year, thanks to to new discoveries and new developments on numerous sites.
REGION FRANCHE COMTE
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Religious sites Burgundy-Franche-Comté, a region of passage that has always existed, was among the first territories in Gaul to see the establishment of Christian communities and monasteries. Spiritual movements of major importance were born there and spread across Europe and beyond. Many forms of sacred art have developed there, well beyond just architecture, and the countless rural churches, of an infinite variety of styles, which dot the region. Fortresses and castles France is famous for its castles. Burgundy-Franche-Comté has a particularly varied range because the borders have often moved throughout its history. From Charlemagne to Louis XIV, each fortress, pleasure residence or castle has a unique story to tell, often enhanced by a walk in a charming park or garden.
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IN REGION BOURGOGNE
VEZELAY 
Noyers-sur-Serein
Flavigny-sur-Ozerain
Semur-en-Brionnais
Châteauneuf
Bèze
Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye- Semur-en-Auxois
Chablis
IN REGION FRANCHE COMTE
Mouthier Haute-Pierre
Ornans
Lods
Arc-et-Senans
Château-Chalon
Baume-les-Messieurs
Pesmes
Dole
Marnay- Chablis
