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Discover haute saône

Sciences & discovery  Sites and museums  Gastronomy 

With the threshold of franche-comté, between vosges and jura, alsace and bourgogne, this tour offers a large broad in an ocean of nature: the area will reveale itself, delicately, gradually and offers its visitors a quality of unequalled life.

Day

Day "delights of antan"


  Visit of the medieval Village of Fondremand small Comtoise town of character discover the castle and the Roman Keep, the sources of the Roman which spout out at the bottom of the castle
  Franc-Comtois Lunch
  Accueil at the Mill of Fondremand where are produced apple juice, flour and nut oil
  the visit will be supplemented by a tasting

Vôge comtoise

Vôge comtoise


  Visit of the ecomuseum of the Country of Cherry
  Visit of a distilling in activity
  Dégustation of Absynthe
  Dinner in an inn
  stroll "Slab of the stag" (5km)

Etuz & mont-les-etrelles

Etuz & mont-les-etrelles


  Etuz: Discover the Sainte-Anne vault retable, out of stone and alabaster. The characteristic of this retable resides in the precocity of its realization: 16th century. We will benefit from this visit to admire the monumental laundrette of the village.
  Mount-the-Etrelles: Discover the Nativity Notre-Dame church retable, in polychromé stucco (18th century), recently restored, one of most beautiful of the Haute-Saône.

St loup-nantouard & gy

St loup-nantouard & gy


  St Loup-Nantouard: To understand the richness of the Haute-Saône of the 18th century, you will visit the castle, old furnished. Old strong house whose ditches are still visible. Altered many times during the history, it transmitted from generation to generation and presents today an invoice 18th and 19th century. Strong time of the visit: its inside parts with the remarkable woodworks.
  Gy: Discover this charming "Small town Comtoise of style", formerly property of the archbishops of Besancon. You will be able to admire a laundrette with 11 columns; its remarkable church of the 18th century having a very interesting furniture (retable with baldachin and side retables of the 18th century and sumptuous tables).

 at the wire of saône

at the wire of saône


  Gray: commented visit of the Museum Baron Martin, one of most beautiful of eastern France. Its situation in the high town offers a splendid sight on the roofs of Gray and the valley of the Saone. Sheltered in a sumptuous castle.

Gylois & fougerolles

Gylois & fougerolles


  Visit cellars of Charcenne
  wines of Charcenne tasting
  Lunch in farm inn
  Fougerolles : commented visit on a distilling in activity. From the fruit fermenting room to the chains of bottle, the old or modern stills, the work of the fruit won't have any secrecy for you. You will also be initiated to alcools production containing plants of absinthe. The visit will be supplemented by a tasting (to consume with moderation).

Cruising of savours

Cruising of savours


  Fontenoy-le-Château: on board for a cruising lunch on the Channel of East.
  Passavant-la-Rochère : Free visit of glass-crystal manufacture. Founded in 1475, it is oldest crystal manufacture of art still in activity in France. You have access to the manufacture and discover the thousand-year-old know-how of the Master-glass-makers Projection of a didactic film on the manufacture of glass. Saddles: Visit Roussey cheese dairy, heiress od a long family tradition. The visit brings you cheese-making and country museum with its tools and ustensils to the open gallery offering a direct sight on the workshops of production, it is the happy marriage of the tradition and modernity. The strong moment of this visit is tasting "plate of savours": selection of flowered pastes, cooked or fermented pastes, or of cheeses "resulting from biological l?agriculture", all on the spot produced.

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