BURGUNDY

ART AND PLEASURE TO LIVE
A LITTLE BURGUNDY WILL DO GOOD TO YOU!
The currency of Burgundy is not only a slogan. The Initiated know it: Burgundy, famous for its wines, is also a great destination for the art lovers as for the lovers of read nature...
And what if you leave to the discovery of the country of Art and Pleasure to live? It will be a journey in time that will lead you right in the heart of always present past. Mythical past in, Solutré, Bibracte and Alésia, mystic past Vézelay, Porvtenay or Clurry. Blazing past of ducales, Dijon and Beaune cities, glittering past with castles as Baaoclles or Taitlay, Bussy-Rabutin or Corrnatin. All the roads lead to it: retted rural and paths of ride, to go through on foot, on horseback, by cycle or by car; waterways, realm of the sailors, and the vast Burgundian sky in which hot-air balloons and other ULM draw their short-lived trail. Whatever you will meet in Burgundy, we know the means to make it real: Burgundian art of living will be there to welcome you with the savours of all the soils of the country between the Seine, the Saône and the Loire, heightened aromas of famous vineyards. And so that your Stay will be a holiday, the calendar of Burgundy abounds in festivals and meetings for all tastes, all year round.

Welcome in the country of the Art and the Pleasure to live!

THE NOVEL, A TRUE STORY
It is in Burgundy that the two greater movements of monastic reform of the Middle Age were born: Cluny, then Cîteaux was, from X-th to XII-th centuries, not only spiritual centres, but so intellectual, artistic and even political excellent for all Europe. From Vézelay to Paray-le-Monial, from Fontenay to Charité-sur-Loire, majestic buildings give evidence of this brilliance. From archaic sobriety of Tournus to the profusion of Autun's sculptures, all the adventure of the Romanic builders is read in the Burgundian churches. Uncountable rural churches, an infinite variety of styles, of stones, atmospheres, spread them everywhere, in this region which owes also to monks the most beautiful fleurons of its vineyards, among which the famous castle of Clos de Vougeot.

POWER OF DUKES, TREASURIES OF CITIES
Middle Age, time of great urban development, endowed Burgundy with a multitude of citiese , small and big, that constitute so many treasures to discover. Dijon, naturally, ducal capital which became regional, that offers to the guest a completely preserved historic centre. Beaune, blazing city of art while being dedicated in noble professions of the vineyard and by wine. But also the numerous cities born by rivers which anchor Burgundy in the space. Auxonne, Chalon, Mâcon owe their origin to gallo - Roman ports of the Saône. Digoin, Decize, Nevers keep the recollection of the skippers of the Loire, Clamecy, Auxerre, Joigny and Feel that of the wooden ballcocks which furnished Paris. Without forgetting the quite small medieval cities: Noyers-sur-Serein, Montreal, Semur-en-Auxois, Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Châteauneuf-en-Auxois and Brancion reserves you the charm of their medieval decoration and their alleys with the quiet villager.

MAGNIFICENCES OF CASTLES
Castles, noble expression of a profoundly rural Burgundy, are as well the faithful reflection at the same moment of the strong and distant relations that this province maintains with royal power under the Ancient Regime. Famous persons will be your guides: Vauban in Bazoches, Mrs de Sévigné de Bussy-Rabutin in Sully, Lamartine in Cormatin and in the houses of Mâconnais, Colette in Puisaye, around Saint - Fargeau. But the castles of Burgundy invite you also to discover the works of the gardeners of their parks and to admire humble work of these gardeners of the rural landscape that were, through centuries, the farmers of the four corners of Burgundy.

VERY NATURAL BURGUNDY
Burgundy does not reserve its charms for the only amateurs of vintage wines and great art. The activities to which one can devote himself are as well varied there as the landscapes, lakes, canals and the rivers. Morvan is in the heart of this green Burgundy where are practised all the forms of the ride, but also the sail and the rafting. The vast trays of Châtillonnais, sweet undulation of Bresse invite to long cycle rides. Peaceful lakes, fresh trout’s rivers, but also the Saône with its silurid wait for all the fishermen. Between the hedges of the hedged brionnaise farmland as throughout the tour of the Yonne on horseback, Burgundy puts in saddle little and old. Rock-climbing or speleology, golf or ULM: certainly, all the activities are in the Burgundian nature.

BURGUNDY IN the THREAD OF WATER
The earthly paradise of the sailors has all the chances to be called "Burgundy": With 1200 km of canals and navigable rivers, the Yonne in the Saône, through vineyards as in the course of the Loire, invitations in the cruise are there multiple. Here, the dream of childhood to be a captain in the bar of its own boat is realized: no licence is necessary to go comfortably from locks to discoveries, according to its mood.
Here, the luxury of a barge-hotel is savoured, sometimes by sliding peacefully between two rows of poplars, others by visiting near cellars and castles. Whatever the chosen formula, contact with an authentic nature and art of living in real Burgundian will be for the meeting.

THE SHARED CELEBRATION
What would be art and pleasure to live in Burgundy without celebrations? Great moments of vine grower year or friendly simplicity of uncountable celebrations of villages, music of all the timesexecuted in grand or intimate monuments, history and legends told by the Burgundians themselves in spectacles " sound - and-light ": from the Saint Vincent Tournante of the wine growers in January until the alive cribs of midnight Christmas masses, everywhere and always, there is something in Burgundy! Dijon has its Holidays of the Vineyard and its gastronomic Fair, Beaune its Festival the baroque and its film Meetings. Chalon-sur-saône livens up, in the end of winter, with the 2-nd carnival of France, and in the heart of summer, with the festival " Kitten in the street ": Nevers has its Biennal of the earthenware and its jazz evenings , Sens the" Synodales ", festival of ballet dance, and the Country of quite close Othe, the Holiday of the Cider. Whereas «Music in Vaults " associates the string quartet to the Romanic churches from the four corners of Burgundy, the Festival of the Great Vineyards puts in music all the styles of villages and famous vineyards, from the North to the South of the region. And if happiness, was simply a festive weekend shared in Burgundy?

THE PLEASURES OF the PALACE
The wine is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most famous ambassador of Burgundy. But there is not only one Burgundy. Ground and situation, height and exhibition - nature gives to the know-howof the Burgundian wine growers a whole range of possibilities to create, from the same vines, infinity of harmonies. Of Chablisien and Auxerrois in the chalonnaise coast and in Mâconnais by way of the prestigious coast around Nuits-Saint-Georges and around Beaune - without forgetting these vineyards of the Loire in Burgundy, near Pouilly and Cosne - numerous cellars in all the region joined to open their doors to the guests in search of initiation and of tastings. And to completely savour all these nectars, nothing is worth the kitchen elaborated in Burgundy, rooted in its traditions while looking for finesse. Trouts, carps or pike perches, and poultry of Bresse, Charolais beef or escargots of Burgundy: art of living is, here, brought up to the rank of philosophy.