Just 30 minutes from Besançon, this commune owes its fame to an imposing monument, listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site: the Royal Salt Works of Arc-et-Senans. Built for the exploitation of salt, it is the work of visionary architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. The Arc-et-Senans saltworks was added to the Salins saltworks in the Jura region. Today, several museums are open to visitors in the heart of the saltworks, which also provides a lively setting for many seasonal events (concerts and exhibitions of all kinds). Arc-et-Senans is magnified by the famous Fête des Montgolfières, held on the third Saturday in September.

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La saline royale. HUANG Zheng / Shutterstock.com
La saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans Olivier Poncelet - Fotolia
La Saline Royale, bâtiment du XVIIIème siècle. Nicolas Thibaut

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