SAÔNE - AND - THE LOIRE

Saône-et-Loire is the most Southern department of Burgundy, crossed as its name indicates by two leaks: the Saône and the Loire.

A EULOGY IN THE VARIETY
This region rich in contrasts has no real geologic unity. An extreme variety of landscapes is met there, of grounds, of climatic characters; France in reducing where the influences of the North and the South get involved, there where the English tile gives up the place to the roman tile, there where the northerly border of the French - Provençal bounds; there where waters is divided between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Burgundy of the South constitutes a mosaic of country going from the hilly plain of Bresse to the foothills of Morvan, or from the Charolais sandstone to the limestones of Mâconnais. In these regions all rich with images: Autunois-Morvan, Burgundian Bresse, Chalonnais, Charolais Brionnais, Mâconnais-Clunisois, Saône-et-Loire is a ground of savours where continues, in the tradition, the social interaction and Burgundian joy of living: " Real Life is Here "

An unforgettable patrimony : 253 Romanic church and chapels; Cluny's abbeys and Tournus's St-Philibert, basilica of the Sacred Heart in Paray-le-Monial, cathedral St-Lazare in Autun. International centres of spirituality: oecumenical community in Taizé, o Paray-le-Monial " sanctuary city ", in the Buddhist temple " Kagyu Ling " in Boulaye. More than an around thirty fortified, medieval castles, the Renaissance. Gallo - Roman and prehistoric vestiges in Bibracte in the Mountain Beuvray, in Solutré-Pouilly " Great Site of France ", in Azé's caves and Blanot … The industrial history of the iron industry and the ceramic. And six hotels-Gods reveal their «Apothecaries’ mysteries " …

GOURMAND BURGUNDY OF THE SOUTH
White and red wines to sample on the roads of wines:
-In the Chalonnaise coast, Couchois and Maranges: Rully, Mercurey, Givry, Montagny, Bouzeron, Burgundy coast of Couchois … Cremating of Burgundy. - in Mâconnais: Pouilly-Fuissé, Pouilly-Loché, Pouilly-Vinzelles, Saint - Véran, Viré- Clessé, Mâcon - villages …
-In Beaujolais:
The Saint- Amour, Windmill, Chénas, juliénas. Excellent gastronomic specialities and " plates of country " to savour: Bresse's chicken, pavement of Charolais, snails of Burgundy, pochouse, ham of Morvan …
And to feast, more than 50 professional chiefs…

ACTIVE BURGUNDY OF THE SOUTH
On foot, on 500 marked out circuits
In cycle or in rollers, on the Green Ways
On horseback, on paths and the «green tracks»
By boat, along 300 km of waterways
Or on 7 golf course 5 of which of 18 holes
In the fishing, with 4 000 km of rivers, canals and 1 200 ha of lakes
And to relax, Bourbon-Lancy's thermal waters …