A moated château in the Burgundy countryside where the witty courtier Roger de Bussy-Rabutin was exiled by Louis XIV after writing a scandalous book about the court. He decorated the rooms with hundreds of portraits of kings, generals and the ladies of the court, many with mocking captions.
The formal gardens and park are lovely; it's near the ancient site of Alésia.
A Romanesque basilica on a hilltop above the Morvan countryside, once one of the great pilgrimage churches of Christendom and a starting point on the…
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…
An extraordinary clock built between 1858 and 1860, in the cathedral of Saint-Jean, with over 30,000 parts and 57 dials showing the time around the w…
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.
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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