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 Gauls against Julius Caesar in 52 BC. Excavations reveal ramparts, houses and workshops.
The museum tells the story of the Celts, and the forest walks give wide views over Burgundy.
A charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.
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…
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 moated château in the Burgundy countryside where the witty courtier Roger de Bussy-Rabutin was exiled by Louis XIV after writing a scandalous book …
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.
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