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Description
| Cuisine | Places
of Interest
 Major
Cities: Besancon, Belfort, Velsoul
Beautiful
natural scenery include forests, lakes and rivers, and mountains
excellent fishing and camping north and northwest of Switzerland.
Excellent
region for outdoor sports such as fishing, hiking, cross-country
skiing with many economical vacation options. Charming
local wine villages, day trips to Switzerland
Medieval
fortifications and World War One sites both located near Vauban
Cave
Explorations possible for experts and tourists alike.
Description
Geographically,
Franche-Comté is really two regions: the high valley of the Saône
is a wide, gently rolling country with a certain rustic simplicity,
while the Jura Mountains are more rugged with dense forests, sheer
cliffs, deep gorges and torrents of water.
In winter this
translates into cross-country skiing with over 2,000 kilometers of
marked trails. In summer rafting along the gentle Lison and Loue
Rivers or the more challenging Saône or Doubs may be your option.
Nature lovers can climb, bike and hike the mountains or explore the
hills that are honeycombed with over 4,000 caves. The streams and
lakes provide world-class fishing.
Your French Connexion
has sites in many charming wine villages such as Arbois, where Louis
Pasteur spent his youth, Chateau-Chalon, where most Jura wines are
produced, or Ornans with its riverside houses.
Ronchamps is the site of Le Corbusier's
concrete Chapelle Notre-Dame. Besançon, the birthplace of Victor
Hugo is famous for its watchmaking.
Cuisine
Starting with a
local Pontarlier - aniseed liqueur, kirsh - a cherry
flavored liqueur, diners here can enjoy delicious regional fare such
as bresi - cured beef, cooked Morteau sausage and Luxeuil
ham. Freshwater fish such as trout, grayling, pike and perch are
also local specialities. To accompany the meal there is the rare
wine known as vin de paille, as well as vin jaune,
yellow wine and vin du jura, Jura wine. Cheeses of the region
are Comté, Morbier, Vacherin and Cancoillotte.
Enjoy
La Franche-Comte in this new Century!
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Places
of Interest
Arbois Surrounded
by vineyards, Museum of Wine and Growing, Pasteur Family Home and
Museum
Belfort Sandstone
lion sculpted by Bartholdi, castle and Vauban fortifications,
cathedral, planetarium and tropical aquarium; Palais Granvelle,
Memorial and Museum of the French Resistance, fine arts museum
Champlitte Museum
of Folk Art and France Comte Traditions, Albert Demart Museum
Dole Lovely
old town, Louis Pasteur's birthplace
Gray Baron
Martin Museum
Luxeuil-les-Bains Tour
des Echevins Museum and Abbey
Morains-en-Montagne The
House of Toys
Morez Eyeglass
Museum
Morteau Watch
Museum
Omans Gustave
Courbet birthplace and museum
Ronchamp Chapel
of Notre-Dame du Haut de Ronchamp designed by Le Corbusier
Saline Royale d'Arc et Senans Royal
Salt Works
Salins-les-Bains Salt
mines and tunnels
Sochaux Peugeot
Museum-automobiles of history
Vesoul Courbet
Museum
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