Monuments to visit Saône-Et-Loire

As a historic and gourmet town counting more than 6,000 inhabitants located halfway between Mâcon and Chalon-sur-Saône, Tournus, called the Door of the South, boasts 4 starred restaurants! This birthplace of the painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze attracts visitors who are charmed by the historic aspect of the city, its traboules, its docks of the Saône, its good gourmet stages and its many entertainments. There are numerous yachtsmen making a stop along the Saône and stay there a few days in the city to benefit from the large Saturday market. The downtown offers you numerous quality shops with its medieval houses and its traboules to discover. Located at rue de l'Hôpital, the old hospices dating back to the 16th and 18th centuries accommodate the Dieu Musée Greuze hotel now where you can visit the hospices part with its three patient rooms as well as the museum exhibiting paintings, sculptures and contemporary works. You should not especially miss to visit the Saint-Philibert abbey, the Sainte-Madeleine church, the Saint-Laurent chapel, the Saint-Valérien church and the Musée du Vélo which recalls the little queen's history!

This beautiful structure allows the lateral canal to cross the Loire. He's 243 meters tall. Built from 1834 to 1838 by the engineers Adolphe Jullien and Jean-Joseph Vigoureux, it was enlarged in 1870 and redesigned between 1890 and 1896. Only boats or pedestrians have access to it.

The Moulin musée de Ménetreuil, an imposing building on the Sane river, has had several lives. It has now been restored to its 1950s state. It's a fine museographic achievement, providing an insight into the milling world of the time. Millstones, hoppers and grinders are still in place. The fun, interactive tour continues with the theme of water and its importance in human society.

The first building dates back to the tenth Century before being restored in the fifteenth century and enlarged in the sixteenth century by Bauffremont-Sennecey. The castle has managed to escape the demolitions of the seventeenth century initiated by Rochelieu. During the French Revolution, it was dismantled by the municipality and was replaced by the church of Sennecey. Nothing is left of this castle except the bastion surrounding wall.

Today, the town hall is located in the former outbuildings of the castle and the Tourist Office, in the old buildings.