THE SOUTH BURGUNDY

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Classified prehistoric caves. The route fitted out in two galleries, one prehistoric, the other active, allows discovering an important deposit of skeletons of bear of caves, as well as a subterranean river. The archaeological museum presents the result of excavations realized in the region. Accessible to all...

BERZE-LA-VILLE
Typical flowery village of Mâconnais, built on careers of plaster (visit on inquiry). The chapel of the Monks preserves mural paints strikingly preserved from the beginning of XII-th s.

BRANCION
Medieval village. Important fortified town of Burgundy of the South, with covered halls from XIV-th and houses from XV-th . The Castle, the bastion of the Lords of Brancion from X-th to XII-th , later ducal then royal castle, is an example of the military architecture of the middle - age.

BUSSIERES
A Village evoking the recollection of the abbot Dumont private tutor then friend of Lamartine. Leaned in the head to the Romanic church, the gravestone of the priest preserves the epitaph composed by the poet. The rocky spur of Monsard offers a beautiful panorama over Mâconnais. On its north wall, a small cave sheltered the courtship of the abbot Dumont and Miss de Milly told in "Jocelyn"; Alphonse de Lamartine's poem.

BERZÉ-LE-CHATEL
This medieval fortress, built between, XII-th and XV-th , is the most impressive medieval fortified town of Burgundy. It preserved the major part of the surrounding walls which rise on 3 floors. One, Carolingian chapel and medieval rooms are opened to the visit. In outside, orchards, kitchen gardens, formal gardens.

BLANOT
Typical village of the Haut-Mâconnâis with Gallery and dry-stone walls houses. Standard Ovens the Romanic church of XI-th and its clunisien church are built on the place of a Merovingian churchyard.
The vastest Network of caves fitted out in Burgundy goes deep to more than 80 m underground, with numerous rooms rich with stalactites and stalagmites.

CHAPAIZE
Village possessing a remarkable Romanic church

CHEVAGNY-LES-CHEVRIERES
The small Museum of Chailloux, associated to the visit of the caprine breeding, regroups former agricultural material, the witness of the know-how of formerly.

CHISSEY-LES-MACON
In an ancient church of XV-th s the Museum of the Swimming redraws history and the evolution of the bathing and the sports swimming.

CORMATIN
The castle of XVII-th, of renaissance style evokes the living environment of the high aristocracy of Louis XIII. Groupings are luxuriously decorated of sculptured painted panelling, gilts, and sculptures; of furniture and pictures. Outside, an elegant French garden with vast ornamental lakes, a great labyrinth of box tree and one ancient garden contribute to the pleasure of the guests.

Saint-Point
In this village, rises Lamartine's castle, offered by his father as a marriage present. Influenced by his wife of English origin, Lamartine restores this medieval building by endowing it with .néo - Gothic elements. The castle preserves its cabinet of work and its bedroom. In the heart of the English park, near the Romanic church, a chapel with the English Gothic style shelters the graves of Lamartine and his family.

Solutré-Pouilly
Typical village of Mâconnais, with vine growers’ houses. The Cliff of Solutré is an impossible to circumvent place of interest. This calcareous steep slope can be climbed easily (3 / 4h go and return) to enjoy sight on Mâcon, the Saône and Pouilly-Fuissé's vineyard. This site was a place of ambush for groups of stallion horses decimated by our ancestors, as the deposit of Grot-du-Charnier gives evidence, at feet of the Cliff; it contains thousands of bones of horses. Excavations begun in the XIX-th and restarted in 1968, up dated numerous eras, witnesses of the cultures, of the Aurignacien Magdalenian (28 000 till10 000 before. J.C.). One of it exactly called Solutréen; is characterized by the cutting of bay leaves by flint, Local Museum of the Prehistory. Buried at feet of the cliff, it presents Palaeolithic mâconnais, the successive civilizations on the site, and the hunted animals in solutréen, Exhibition every summer Gives access to the archaeological garden, fitted out on the deposit of Crot-du-charnier. Archaeological course, landscaped and botanical.