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. A waterfall tumbles over mossy terraces at the head of the valley, near caves you can visit in summer.
The viewpoint at the top of the cliffs, the Belvédère des Roches, gives the best view. Try the local vin jaune.
A series of 31 waterfalls on the Hérisson river in the Jura mountains, among them the Éventail, which fans out over 65 metres of rock, and the Grand …
The country house where Voltaire spent his last 20 years, a short way from the Swiss border so that he could flee if he got into trouble.
A Flamboyant Gothic church and monastery built in the early 1500s by Margaret of Austria in memory of her husband, the Duke of Savoy.
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…
A charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.
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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