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 way to Santiago de Compostela. Its carved tympanum and capitals, and the light that falls in the nave, are famous.
Walk up the steep main street of the village and around the ramparts for views over the vineyards.
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 …
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…
A charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.
A World Heritage Gothic cathedral built around 1200, unusual for having no transept, so its five-aisled nave rises in one great sweep of light.
The Gothic town palace of Jacques Cœur, a merchant who became the richest man in France and treasurer to King Charles VII before falling from favour.
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.
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