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Saône-et-Loire is one of the four departments of Burgundy. Tourism in this region is founded on its varied landscape (the

Saône The Saône ( , ; frp, Sona; lat, Arar) is a river in eastern France. It is a right tributary of the Rhône, rising at Vioménil in the Vosges department and joining the Rhône in Lyon, at the southern end of the Presqu'île. The name ...

plain, the Mâconnais, and the Charolais), its gastronomy with the prestigious mâconnais wines, the charolais beef, the ''poulet de Bresse'' (Bresse chicken), and its rich architectural sites, (

Autun Autun () is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Ro ...

Cluny Cluny () is a commune in the eastern French department of Saône-et-Loire, in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is northwest of Mâcon. The town grew up around the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in ...

Paray-le-Monial Paray-le-Monial is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Since 2004 is Paray-le-Monial part of the Charolais-Brionnais Country. It is nicknamed the "city of the Sacred Heart ...

, and

Tournus Tournus () is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Geography Tournus is located on the right bank of the Saône, 20 km. northeast of Mâcon on the Paris-Lyon railway. Pop ...

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Sights

Natural sites

* The

Arboretum de Pézanin The Arboretum de Pézanin or Arboretum Domanial de Pézanin (''Federal Arboretum of Pézanin'') is an arboretum located in Dompierre-les-Ormes, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France. It is one of the oldest and richest forest collections in France, ...

, * Azé’s grottes * The Régional Natural Park of the Morvan * The Saint-Cyr Mount, the top of southern Burgundy * The

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Cities and villages

Mâcon Mâcon (), historically anglicised as Mascon, is a city in east-central France. It is the prefecture of the department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Mâcon is home to near 34,000 residents, who are referred to in French as ...

, city in wine site *

Charolles Charolles (; Burgundian: ''Tsarolles'') is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. Since 2004 is Charolles part of the Charolais-Brionnais Country. Geography Charolles is located ...

, cradle of the charolais beef *

, Morvan’s door *

Berzé-le-Châtel Berzé-le-Châtel (; frp, Bresié-le-Châtiô) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France. The trouvère Hugues IV de Berzé was the ruler of Berzé-le-Châtel in the early 13th c ...

, strengthen village *

, and its millennium

abbey An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns. The con ...

Dompierre-les-Ormes Dompierre-les-Ormes () is a commune in the department of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. It is a rural and touristic village, with characteristic landscapes: little mountains crowded with forests and pastures. The main part ...

, with the ‘’Galerie Européenne de la Forêt et du bois’’ and the

Public opened castle

Château de Sully The Château de Sully, situated between Autun and Beaune ( Saône-et-Loire), is the largest of the Renaissance châteaux of southern Burgundy. Paired outbuildings of a more vernacular character face each other across a grassed forecourt, while to ...

* Château de Pierreclos * Château de Cormatin * Château de Drée * Château de Saint-Point * Château de

Couches A couch, also known as a sofa, settee, or chesterfield, is a cushioned item of furniture for seating multiple people (although it is not uncommon for a single person to use a couch alone). It is commonly found in the form of a bench with up ...

* Château de Pierre-de-Bresse

Important tourist sites

* The ''Galerie européenne de la forêt et du bois'' (European Gallery of forest and wood) * The Cluny abbey, et the Haras of Cluny, * The

Taizé community The Taizé Community is an ecumenical Christian monastic fraternity in Taizé, Saône-et-Loire, Burgundy, France. It is composed of more than one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countrie ...

, * EuroVelo 6 and green ways * Wine: the hameau Dubœuf, in Romanèche-Thorins, wines of the chalonais and maconnais

Wine

Mâconnais : Chalonnais :

Most visited sites

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tourism in Saone-et-Loire * Tourism in France