Travel Guide Vaux-Sur-Poligny

WEBSITE CLUNISIEN. This small municipality is situated above Poligny on the road climbing towards Champagnole. On a plot near the castle and the old abbey, explanatory panels present the natural and built heritage of Vaux-sur-Poligny. A particular geographical and historical phenomenon is discovered: remote and local history. The priory is an ancient Benedictine monastic foundation from the beginning of the xie century which was attached to the order of Cluny in 1029. The abbey was transformed into the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a small seminary, then the site was a great place of resistance during the Second World War. It housed a private college until 2009. The former residence of the director, the «castle» is now a private property. The old chapel welcomes a concert from time to time. We also realize the importance of mills in the valley: There were up to eight! One of them still works: The Mignot mill. The trail can be extended by a trail that wins the bottom of the distance.