The remains of the greatest abbey of the Middle Ages, founded in 910, whose church was the largest in Christendom until St Peter's in Rome was built. Most of it was demolished after the Revolution, but the surviving south transept shows its huge scale.
Virtual reality and 3D reconstructions bring the lost abbey back to life. The medieval town around it is also worth exploring.
A limestone crag rising like the prow of a ship above the vineyards of Pouilly-Fuissé in southern Burgundy.
A Flamboyant Gothic church and monastery built in the early 1500s by Margaret of Austria in memory of her husband, the Duke of Savoy.
A charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.
The great Celtic hilltop town of the Aedui tribe, on the wooded summit of Mont Beuvray in the Morvan, where Vercingetorix was chosen to lead the Gaul…
Lyon's old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, stretches along the Saône river below the hill of Fourvière, with Renaissance houses, the Gothic Saint…
A village and its old abbey at the bottom of a deep limestone valley, a 'reculée' typical of the Jura, closed off by cliffs over 200 metres high.
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