CHAPEL AND HERMITAGE GAZEBO

Listed as a historical monument since 1913, the small Hermitage chapel dates back to the ^17th century. It was built on the site of an earlier ^15th-century chapel by the people of Arbois to thank the Virgin Mary for helping them resist the troops of Louis XI. It houses a wooden statuette of the Virgin, said to have been discovered in an oak tree by a Dutch hermit who retired there in the ^17th century. For walkers, allow an hour round trip from the town center.