Discover the tournus heritage during your trip to the southern burgundy.
Discover tournus
Visit abbey Saint Philibert, true masterpiece of the first Romanesque art.
- Audioguides
- Free Visits
- Guided tours on reservation
for more information, contact the Office of Tourism of Tournugeois with 03.85.27.00 .20 or by email: Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr)
Gastronomical pause in one of the many restaurants of Tournus (for obtenire the list of the hotels and restaurants: 03.85.27.00 .20 or Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr)
Visit Hotel God - Greuze Museum With its pharmacy, it is a faithful restitution of the everyday life of the patients with 17th and 18th centuries. It also shelters the Museum Greuze (graphic arts and archaeology), name of a painter of the French School of the 18th century, born in Tournus. - opened the last week end of March to the first weekend of November - 10h 18h except Tuesday - 5€ by anybody/3.40€ reduced/free tariff less than 18 years
You will be able to then spend the night in a charming hotel or a room of hosts of Tournus.
Nature
Discovere the Natural Reserve of Truchère
Located near the junction Saone-Pail, the natural reserve offers to the visitor a mosaic natural environments, on a surface of approximately 93ha, you will décrouvrirez three very different worlds there: - the Fouquet pond - the peat bog - sand dunes Two paths of discovery, open all the year, one approximately 2 hours duration each one. For more information, contact the Office of Tourism of Tournugeois with 03.85.27.00 .20 or by email: Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr Restaurants accomodate you with Truchère and a frog treat, cracklings and other specialities present to you. Stroll in boat on the Pail and the Saone, passage of a stopping and a lock. - of May 1 to September 30 - the every day on reservation with 15h and 17h For more information, contact the Office of Tourism of Tournugeois with 03.85.27.00 .20 or by email: Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr
Historical heritage
Discover the medieval Village of Brancion, its strong castle and its Romance church of the 12th century which preserves beautiful frescos of the 14th century as well as the lying one of a lord of Barncion, died in Crusade. For more information, contact the Office of Tourism of Tournugeois with 03.85.27.00 .20 or by email: Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr
Cadoles of plottes
The territory of the commune of Plottes conceals a natural petrimoine (peloses limestones, wood…)with rural (vineyards cadoles…) and architectural (church, priory, laundrettes, houses vigneronnes, middle-class woman, baker's oven…) to discover and appreciate. The cadoles cont of small stone huts dry which were used as shelters to the shepherds and to the vine growers. It of A 14 restored on the commune of Plottes, 4 cisrcuits pedestrian marked out make it possible there to discover them.
Contact: Office of Tourism of Tournugeois 2 Carnot place 71700 TOURNUS Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr You will be able to punctuate your walk by a picnic authorized on the surfaces envisaged to this end.
Discover the vine heritage
Oenological discovery.
Traverse this area or the Chardonnay type of vine finds a soil of predilection. Return in the producers or in the cellars of Tournus and of Tournugeois in order to taste their wines. Attention, the abuse alcohol is dangerous for health. To consume with moderation. For more information, contact the Office of Tourism of Tournugeois with 03.85.27.00 .20 or by email: Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr
Tournus, medieval town
You will be able to finish your stay by the visit of the historical center of Tournus. A folder for the adults and a questionnaire for the children are available to the Office of Tourrisme of Tournugeois. They will enable you to discover this city, of Roman origin which has important testimonys of the past. C
ontact: Office of Tourism of Tournugeois 2 Carnot place 71700 TOURNUS Such: 03.85.27.00 .20 Fax: 03.85.27.00 .21 Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr
Do not hesitate to contact us for any request for documentation.
The tournus region and its roman heritage
Many Roman churches punctuate the roads of Tournugeois. You can visit the churches of:
- Préty
- Farges lès Mâcon
- La Chapelle sous Brancion
- Villars…
But you will be able to also discover laundrettes, beautiful residences, menhirs…
For more information and any request of documentation, do not hesitate to contact the Office of Tourism of Tournugeois 2 places Carnot 71700 TOURNUS Such: 03.85.27.00 .20 Fax: 03.85.27.00 .21 E-mail: Ot.tournus@wanadoo.fr
