--- title: "Cluny and Tournus from Beaune: a 3-day plan" description: "Three days in Beaune with a day for Cluny Abbey, or the Romanesque road from Tournus to Cluny, transfers from Le Creusot TGV or Lyon, from €810 per car." url: https://www.cote-privee.com/packages/cluny-and-tournus-3-days lang: en updated: 2026-10-08 generated: 2026-10-09 image: https://www.cote-privee.com/og/packages/cluny-and-tournus-3-days.png --- # Cluny, Tournus and Romanesque Burgundy > Three days in Beaune with a day for Cluny Abbey, by return trip or with the driver by the hour along the Romanesque road from Tournus to Cluny, with transfers from Le Creusot TGV or Lyon, from €810 per car. - Length: 3 days - Theme: Abbeys and châteaux - Price: from €810 per car Cluny was the heart of a monastic order that spread across Europe, and its abbey church the largest in medieval Christendom; Tournus, on the Saône, keeps one of the great Romanesque churches of France. The light plan takes you to Cluny and back for the abbey, its museum and the town. The full plan keeps the driver for ten hours: the abbey church of Tournus, the hilltop village of Brancion, the church of Chapaize, the Château de Cormatin and Cluny Abbey. ## Choose your plan - Le Creusot TGV station · Light pace: €810 (Le Creusot TGV station, and back) - Le Creusot TGV station · Full pace: €1,080 (Le Creusot TGV station, and back) - Lyon airport or Part-Dieu · Full pace: €1,570 (Lyon airport or Part-Dieu, and back) ## Le Creusot TGV station · Light pace: €810 - Le Creusot TGV station, and back - Book this trip: ### Day 1 · Arrival and the Collégiale of Beaune - 11:00 · **Le Creusot TGV station → Beaune** · Transfer · your driver meets your train or flight · ≈ 50 min · €165: Your driver meets your TGV at Le Creusot TGV, about 1 h 20 from Paris; Beaune in about 50 minutes. - 15:00 · **[Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-notre-dame-beaune)** · On your own: The Collégiale Notre-Dame of Beaune and the tapestries of its choir. ### Day 2 · Cluny Abbey - 09:30 · **Beaune → Cluny Abbey** ([Cluny Abbey](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-cluny)) · Driver there, and back later the same day · ≈ 1 h 07 each way · back about 17:45 · €480: About 1 h 10 south: the abbey and the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie on one ticket (allow two to three hours), lunch in town, the Haras national; back in Beaune at about 17:45. ### Day 3 · The way home - 11:00 · **Beaune → Le Creusot TGV station** · Transfer · ≈ 50 min · €165: Le Creusot TGV in about 50 minutes, for the TGV to Paris. ### The price, service by service | Day | Service | Price | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Transfer · Le Creusot TGV station → Beaune | €165 | | 2 | Private driver · Beaune → Cluny Abbey | €480 | | 3 | Transfer · Beaune → Le Creusot TGV station | €165 | | | **Total per car** | **€810** | Nothing to pay now: a deposit of €243 once your driver confirms, the balance on the day. Change any service on the booking page before you send the request. ## Le Creusot TGV station · Full pace: €1,080 - Le Creusot TGV station, and back - Book this trip: ### Day 1 · Arrival and the Collégiale of Beaune - 11:00 · **Le Creusot TGV station → Beaune** · Transfer · your driver meets your train or flight · ≈ 50 min · €165: Your driver meets your TGV at Le Creusot TGV, about 1 h 20 from Paris; Beaune in about 50 minutes. - 15:00 · **[Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-notre-dame-beaune)** · On your own: The Collégiale Notre-Dame of Beaune and the tapestries of its choir. ### Day 2 · The Romanesque road - 09:00–19:00 · **Driver for 10 hours** ([Saint-Philibert Abbey, Tournus](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-saint-philibert-tournus), [Château de Brancion](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-brancion), [Saint-Martin Church, Chapaize](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-martin-chapaize), [Château de Cormatin](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-cormatin), [Cluny Abbey](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-cluny)) · Driver by the hour · €750: The abbey church of Tournus, the castle and market hall of Brancion, the church of Chapaize, the Louis XIII apartments of the Château de Cormatin, then Cluny Abbey; back at about 19:00. ### Day 3 · The way home - 11:00 · **Beaune → Le Creusot TGV station** · Transfer · ≈ 50 min · €165: Le Creusot TGV in about 50 minutes, for the TGV to Paris. ### The price, service by service | Day | Service | Price | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Transfer · Le Creusot TGV station → Beaune | €165 | | 2 | Private driver · Driver for 10 hours | €750 | | 3 | Transfer · Beaune → Le Creusot TGV station | €165 | | | **Total per car** | **€1,080** | Nothing to pay now: a deposit of €324 once your driver confirms, the balance on the day. Change any service on the booking page before you send the request. ## Lyon airport or Part-Dieu · Full pace: €1,570 - Lyon airport or Part-Dieu, and back - Book this trip: ### Day 1 · Arrival and the Collégiale of Beaune - 11:00 · **Lyon airport or Part-Dieu → Beaune** · Transfer · your driver meets your train or flight · ≈ 1 h 50 · €410: Your driver meets you at Lyon airport arrivals or at Part-Dieu; Beaune in about 1 h 50. - 15:00 · **[Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-notre-dame-beaune)** · On your own: The Collégiale Notre-Dame of Beaune and the tapestries of its choir. ### Day 2 · The Romanesque road - 09:00–19:00 · **Driver for 10 hours** ([Saint-Philibert Abbey, Tournus](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-saint-philibert-tournus), [Château de Brancion](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-brancion), [Saint-Martin Church, Chapaize](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-martin-chapaize), [Château de Cormatin](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-cormatin), [Cluny Abbey](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-cluny)) · Driver by the hour · €750: The abbey church of Tournus, the castle and market hall of Brancion, the church of Chapaize, the Louis XIII apartments of the Château de Cormatin, then Cluny Abbey; back at about 19:00. ### Day 3 · The way home - 11:00 · **Beaune → Lyon airport or Part-Dieu** · Transfer · ≈ 1 h 50 · €410: Lyon airport or Part-Dieu in about 1 h 50. ### The price, service by service | Day | Service | Price | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Transfer · Lyon airport or Part-Dieu → Beaune | €410 | | 2 | Private driver · Driver for 10 hours | €750 | | 3 | Transfer · Beaune → Lyon airport or Part-Dieu | €410 | | | **Total per car** | **€1,570** | Nothing to pay now: a deposit of €471 once your driver confirms, the balance on the day. Change any service on the booking page before you send the request. ## What the trip includes - Your private driver and the electric car for every service of the plan - Tolls, parking and waiting - Flight and train tracking on the transfers, and a name board at arrivals - Child seats on request ## What you arrange yourself - Your hotels - Tastings, paid to each domaine - Meals and restaurant tables - Tickets, guided tours and visits - Your trains and flights ## Good to know - On Saturday mornings a market fills the streets beside Cluny Abbey, and another the centre of Tournus. - Cormatin and Brancion open from early April to early or mid-November: outside those months, the full plan keeps Tournus, Chapaize and Cluny. - Churches pause visits during services: Sunday morning is the hardest time for Tournus and Chapaize. ## Questions ### Who is this trip for? Lovers of Romanesque art and abbeys. Groups where some would rather visit than taste. Travellers arriving by TGV at Le Creusot or by plane at Lyon. ### How long do we need at Cluny? Allow two to three hours for the abbey and the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie in the Palais Jean de Bourbon, which one ticket covers, and as long again for lunch and the town. ### Does the driver show us round? No: your driver drives and waits. The visits are yours, with audio guides in English at Cluny and Tournus, or the sites' own guided tours. ### Can we add a tasting? Yes, on the full plan: the driver by the hour stops wherever you like, and the Mâconnais vineyards are close to Cluny and Tournus. ## Other trips - [Abbeys and châteaux of northern Burgundy](https://www.cote-privee.com/packages/abbeys-and-chateaux-4-days): 4 days · Abbeys and châteaux · from €990 per car - [Three days for a first wine trip in Burgundy](https://www.cote-privee.com/packages/first-wine-trip-3-days): 3 days · First wine trip · from €360 per car - [Three days among the grands crus of the Côte de Nuits](https://www.cote-privee.com/packages/cote-de-nuits-grand-crus-3-days): 3 days · Côte de Nuits grands crus · from €610 per car - [All multi-day trips](https://www.cote-privee.com/packages) --- Canonical page: