With its relaxed way of life, the attraction of its old neighbourhoods with their wood-panelled houses and the arrangement of its flower beds, Bourg-en-Bresse, is surely a town of human dimensions full of its generous past and ambitious future.
Its small cobblestoned lanes, with its central waterspout, its old well, its squirrel-type winepress, its fortress church, its picturesque houses, its stores with stalls and evocative signs will take you to the middle ages.