Tourism in Saône-et-Loire

The Tour de France in Mâcon

Saône-et-Loire is one of the four department of Burgundy. The tourism in this region is founded on his varied landscape : Saône plain, the Mâconnais and the Charolais, his gastronomy with the prestigious mâconnais wines, the charolaise beef, the Poulet de Bresse (Bresse chicken) and his rich patrimonies (Autun, Cluny, Paray-le-Monial…)

Touristics attractions

Natural sites

Arboretum de Pézanin

• The Arboretum de Pézanin,
• Azé’s grottes
• The Régional Natural Park of the Morvan
• The Saint-Cyr Mount, the top of South Burgundy
• The Roche de Solutré

Cities and villages

Cluny

• Mâcon, city in wine site
• Charolles, cradle of the race charolaise
• Autun, Morvan’s door
• Berzé-le-Châtel, strengthen village
• Cluny, and his millennium abbey
• Dompierre-les-Ormes, with the ‘’Galerie Européenne de la Forêt et du bois’’ ans the Arboretum de Pézanin

Public opened castle

Château de Drée, garden

• Château de Sully
• Château de Pierreclos
• Château de Cormatin
• Château de Drée
• Château de Saint-Point

Important touristics 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,
• EuroVelo 6 and green ways ^[1]
• The wine : the hameau Dubœuf, in Romanèche-Thorins

Wine

Bourgogne wine

Mâconnais :

Chalonnais :

Most visited sites

References

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2. ↑ chiffres clés du tourisme en Bourgogne

• (French)