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Villes
- Salins-Les-Bains
- Baume-Les-Messieurs
- Dole
- Les Rousses
- Arbois
- Poligny
- Saint-Claude
- Nozeroy
- Château-Chalon
- Lons-Le-Saunier
- Lajoux
- Orgelet
- Moirans-En-Montagne
- Prémanon
- Lamoura
- Hauts De Bienne
- Doucier
- Champagnole
- Morbier
- Bonlieu
- La Pesse
- Pupillin
- Saint-Amour
- Clairvaux-Les-Lacs
- Foucherans
- Cerniébaud
- Thésy
- Our
- Mesnois
- Digna
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La Franche-Comté offre un kaléidoscope de possibilités de séjours selon ses aspirations. Selon que l'on aime la plaine, l'intermédiaire que sont les plateaux ou la plus haute montagne. La dimension de la région à taille humaine permet des moments de villégiature plus ou moins longs en fonction des centres d'intérêts et des aptitudes de chacun. Un peu comme les voisins suisses, on aime cependant y prendre son temps. Avec son couvert pâturé et forestier, ses eaux vives ou tranquilles, sa richesse archéologique, le maintien de ses traditions, ce sont des centaines de kilomètres à entreprendre en marchant, en vélo, en vtt, à cheval, en chiens de traîneau, en ski et même en trottinette électrique ou en Renault 4 L ! Des centaines également de pratiques aquatiques on l'imagine ainsi que le thermalisme bienfaiteur. Une dépense d'énergies bien récompensée par la richesse des produits locaux et des tables elles aussi restées à taille humaine.
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This edition contains a new selection of good addresses, others just as remarkable can be found on the PetitFuté.Com website
From one edition to the next, we travel the roads of this land of the Comtois where wild nature surrounds places of life with remarkable and multiple heritages, of an exceptional richness
Our mission is to meet the people who live and make this province live, in order to select relevant information that will allow you to discover this corner of France and a little bit of the neighboring Switzerland.
This wild and very fragile nature deserves all the attention. It does not belong to us, and we must respect it in order to pass it on in a preserved manner to future generations.
Take the time to savor this Jura and its Massif, they will leave you with unforgettable memories, with the desire to return and share them.
Jura : The 12 keywords
CRAFT
The Jura is a land of human-sized know-how. These heirs of half peasants and half rural craftsmen: furniture and recreational woodworking, horn turners, pipe makers, diamond cutters, watchmakers, founders, ironworkers, glassmakers, potters, enamellers, stone cutters. Some of them are small and medium-sized businesses today.
COUNTY
Comté is the emblematic cheese of Franche-Comté. It was the first AOC cheese in 1958 and AOP in 1996. As its standard-bearer, it has brothers and sisters to discover such as morbier, bleu de Gex, mont d'or, mountain tomme... not forgetting cancoillotte! A gastronomic jewel in fondue or with a Bresse poultry. Among others.
GASTRONOMY
You cannot escape the pleasures of the table in the Comtois region. It is full of excellent rural and urban addresses; starred chefs, but not only. It relies on its regional products such as trout, frogs, poultry, various cured meats (Morteau and Montbéliard sausages in particular), mushrooms and farm dairy products.
TOYS
The Jura mountains are known as "Santa's other country". Dozens of companies, craftsmen or large manufacturers, of international renown. A speciality initiated in the Middle Ages by the monks of Saint-Claude who were already making toys in "turned wood". Toys have their own museum in Moirans, not forgetting their annual Idéklic festival.
LYNX
The Jura big cat, also known as the "Lynx boréal" is the mascot of the regional fauna. Protected since 1981, it is one of the endangered species like the capercaillie. They live in the forests with deer, chamois, roe deer, wild boar, badger and many small mammals and birds.
NATURE
The green of the pastures and the 720,000 ha of forests, the blue of the 33 lakes, waterfalls and streams, the winter white of the mountainous area with its 129 km of ski slopes sum up the portrait of this Jura often called "Little Scotland". This abundant flora is the companion of the County. We can also mention the interest of the coombs, the secluded areas and the peat bogs.
HERITAGE
The heritage of the Comtois is infinitely varied. From the Celtic and Roman remains, the traces of the dinosaurs, the lakeside cities to the "Petites cités comtoises de caractère". The region has some of the most beautiful villages in France, such as Mouthier-Haute-Pierre, Ornans, Arc-et-Senans, Pesmes, Beaume-les-Messieurs and Château-Chalon.
REPUBLIC
A Republic within the Republic. This self-proclaimed micronation in the Haut-Doubs has existed since 1947 under the name "République du Saugeais", with its own flag, coat of arms and television! A must-see if you're allowed to cross the border. It comprises 11 dynamic communes, whose president is Madame Bertin-Pourchet, elected for life.
SPORT
With cross-country skiing and its mythical "Transjurassienne" race, all the disciplines linked to the "lattes" are practicable, without forgetting the biathlon and its champions. In the summer months, too, the marked trails are a joy for hikers, including mountain bikers and horseback riders. Natural cycle paths, in the plain, without crossing a car.
SWITZERLAND
The Jura massif would not be complete without its Swiss counterpart, so much so that these twins separated by the border merge. Same relief and cover, but also the similarity of precision craft activities (including watches), agriculture by recalling that the Swiss cheese makers taught the Comtois how to make Comté cheese. A beautiful country.
THERMALISM
With its incredible salt deposit, thermal spas appeared in the region with the fame that followed. In Luxeuil, in Lons-le-Saunier, in Salins-les-Bains. The water of the latter being denser than the Dead Sea. The water is rich in trace elements and is used for therapeutic, fitness, health and beauty cures.
VINEYARD
It is described as the smallest of the great vineyards. It has been raising its head since the 1970s. 5 grape varieties and 6 appellations have left a generous range of products. But above all 2 nuggets: the sweet straw wine and the no less rare yellow wine considered as one of the best whites in the world. The Château-Chalon is the undisputed sovereign.
You are from here, if...
You say "Comtois rends toi... nenni ma foi!"an expression that the people of Dolois would have shouted in 1636, when Dole (capital of the County and dependent on Spain) was besieged by the troops of the Prince of Condé sent by Richelieu.
You say "Arbois wine, the more you drink it, the straighter you go! ». A popular saying to glorify the nectar of the capital of Jura wines. The people of Arbois often add "It's the last glass that goes straight"... "or lightning". It depends.
At the sight of a visitor "who is not from the country", you do not throw yourself into his arms. You analyze him to see if he is worthy of your trust. Once you have been accepted, you are in for the long haul, if not for life. The Comtois is faithful in friendship.
You don't obey to go hunting for the Dahu. A hoax for an absurd mission consisting in hunting in the mountains, stick and bag in hand, a quadruped being with two legs shorter than the other. Some run a long way!
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