Tourism in Saône-et-Loire

The Tour de France in Mâcon

Saône-et-Loire is one of the four departments of Burgundy. Tourism in this region is founded on its varied landscape (the Saône 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, Cluny, Paray-le-Monial, and Tournus)

Sights

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 southern Burgundy
• The Roche de Solutré

Cities and villages

Cluny

• Mâcon, city in wine site
• Charolles, cradle of the charolais beef
• 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’’ and 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
• Château de Couches
• 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,
• EuroVelo 6 and green ways ^[1]
• Wine: the hameau Dubœuf, in Romanèche-Thorins, wines of the chalonais and maconais

Wine

Bourgogne wine

Mâconnais :

Chalonnais :

Most visited sites

26 Sites most visited in southern Burgundy	Location	Number of visitors in 2013[2]	Type
Basilica of Paray-le-Monial (free)	Paray-le-Monial	475,000	Church
Abbaye Saint Philibert	Tournus	220,000	Abbey
Parc des Combes	Le Creusot	165,000	Amusement park
Touroparc Zoo	Romanèche-Thorins	155,499	Amusement park
Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie et Abbaye de Cluny	Cluny	128,088	Abbey site
Hameau du vin	Romanèche-Thorins	119,759	Wine village
Communauté de Taizé	Taizé	111,630	Religious community
Château de Cormatin	Cormatin	58,612	Chateau
Temple des mille Bouddhas	La Boulaye	50,000	Buddhist temple
Cathédrale Saint Lazare	Autun	50,000	Cathedral
Musée Bibracte	Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray	40,623	Muaeum
Ecomusée de la Bresse	Pierre-de-Bresse	36,178	Museum
Acrogivry	Givry	27,103
Musée de la Préhistoire de Solutré	Solutré	26,958	Museum
Musée Nicéphore-Niépce	Chalon-sur-Saône	26,238	Photography museum
Diverti'Parc	Toulon-sur-Arroux	26,000	Amuesement parks
Arboretum de Pézanin (free)	Dompierre-les-Ormes	25,000	Arboretum
Château de Couches	Couches	24,259	Chateau
Château de Sully	Sully	24,095	Chateau
Grottes d'Azé	Azé	23,095	Cave
Brancion		23,100	Medieval village
Musée Rolin	Autun	18,226	Museum
Haras national de Cluny	Cluny	18,189
Centre EDEN	Cuisery	15,884
Château de Pierreclos	Pierreclos	15,429	Chateau
Galerie européenne de la forêt et du bois (free 1st Sunday of ever month)	Dompierre-les-Ormes	15,154

References

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2. chiffres clés du tourisme en Bourgogne

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