--- title: "Things to do in Burgundy" description: "Things to do in Burgundy’s wine country: museums, abbeys, wine experiences, markets and viewpoints, with private driver prices to get there." url: https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do lang: en updated: 2026-10-08 generated: 2026-10-08 image: https://www.cote-privee.com/og/things-to-do.png --- # Things to do in Burgundy > Museums, abbeys, wine experiences, markets and viewpoints, with how long to allow and the drive from Beaune. 226 things to do ## Wine experiences - [Domaine Baptiste Guyot](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-baptiste-guyot-beaune): A small family estate on the western edge of Beaune, where the town meets the vines. (Beaune) - [Domaine Chanson](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-chanson-bastion-beaune): Visit the massive rampart tower where Domaine Chanson ages its wines, in the heart of Beaune. (Beaune) - [Bouchard Aîné & Fils](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/bouchard-aine-et-fils-beaune): A sensory introduction to Burgundy wine in the cellars of an 18th-century Beaune mansion. (Beaune) - [Maison Patriarche Père et Fils](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/caves-patriarche-beaune): Walk through about five kilometres of vaulted cellars beneath a former convent, then taste the wines. (Beaune) - [Sensation Vin](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/sensation-vin-beaune): Blind-tasting wine classes in the centre of Beaune, in French and English, since 2006. (Beaune) - [Maison Champy](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-champy-beaune): Founded in 1720, Champy calls itself Burgundy's oldest wine house, with old cellars and an 1890 vat house. (Beaune) - [Maison Jaffelin](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-jaffelin-beaune): A small Beaune wine house founded in 1816, working in the medieval cellars of the Notre-Dame chapter. (Beaune) - [Maison Joseph Drouhin](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-joseph-drouhin-beaune): A family wine house since 1880, with historic cellars beneath the oldest quarter of Beaune. (Beaune) - [Marché aux Vins](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/marche-aux-vins-beaune): Taste Burgundy wines in the cellars and chapels of a medieval Franciscan church facing the Hôtel-Dieu. (Beaune) - [Vins Coudurier Jung](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/vins-coudurier-jung-beaune): A micro-winery in a Beaune street, where the wines are made on site with native yeasts and no filtering. (Beaune) - [Maison Louis Jadot](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-louis-jadot-beaune): A Beaune wine house founded in 1859, known for its Bacchus label, with a shop and visits at its winery. (Beaune) - [Cité des Climats et vins de Bourgogne](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cite-des-climats-et-vins-de-bourgogne-beaune): Burgundy's wine centre, in a striking building shaped like a vine tendril at the entrance to Beaune. (Beaune) - [Nuiton-Beaunoy – Cave des Hautes-Côtes](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/nuiton-beaunoy-cave-des-hautes-cotes-beaune): The growers' co-operative of the Hautes-Côtes, with a free tasting room overlooking the vines on the edge of Beaune. (Beaune) - [Veuve Ambal](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/veuve-ambal-montagny-les-beaune): A family Crémant de Bourgogne house founded in 1898, toured from a walkway above its cellars and workshops. (Montagny-lès-Beaune · 9 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Guillaume Baduel](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-guillaume-baduel-pommard): A young Pommard domaine run by the sixth generation of a wine family, where some vines are still ploughed by horse. (Pommard · 10 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Michel Lahaye](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-michel-lahaye-pommard): A family estate on Pommard's church square, with a tasting room in its old stable and a log fire in winter. (Pommard · 10 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Lejeune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-lejeune-pommard): A Pommard estate held by the same family since 1783, now farmed organically by a new generation. (Pommard · 10 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Michel Rebourgeon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-michel-rebourgeon-pommard): A small family estate in Pommard, with premier cru vines ploughed by horse and a tasting cellar open every day. (Pommard · 10 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Henri de Villamont](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-henri-de-villamont-savigny-les-beaune): A Savigny-lès-Beaune wine house in striking 19th-century brick buildings, above 2,500 square metres of vaulted cellars. (Savigny-lès-Beaune · 11 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Christophe Vaudoisey](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-christophe-vaudoisey-volnay): A Volnay family estate since 1804, now in its ninth generation, receiving visitors by appointment in the village. (Volnay · 11 min from Beaune) - [Le Caveau de Meursault – Moillard](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/caveau-moillard-meursault): A modern tasting space at the entrance to Meursault, run by the Moillard wine house. (Meursault · 12 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Bernard Delagrange et Fils](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-bernard-delagrange-meursault): A father-and-son Meursault estate in the old house of a 15th-century ducal physician, over two levels of cellars. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Ropiteau Frères](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/ropiteau-freres-meursault): A Meursault wine house founded in 1848, ageing its wines in old cellars that once belonged to the Hospices de Beaune. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Jean Monnier & Fils](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-jean-monnier-et-fils-meursault): A Meursault family estate with roots in 1696 and a tasting cellar on the town hall square. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Boyer-Martenot](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-boyer-martenot-meursault): A Meursault family estate since 1917, with a tasting cellar open on weekdays, with or without an appointment. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Jeannot](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-jeannot-meursault): A young family estate in Meursault, built up since 1997 by Valérie and Philippe Jeannot and their son Quentin. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Domaine d’Ardhuy](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-d-ardhuy-clos-des-langres-corgoloin): A family estate around an 18th-century manor in the Clos des Langres, where the Côte de Nuits meets the Côte de Beaune. (Corgoloin · 16 min from Beaune) - [Olivier Leflaive](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/olivier-leflaive-puligny-montrachet): A Puligny-Montrachet wine house founded in 1984, with sommelier-led tastings on the village square. (Puligny-Montrachet · 18 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Bader-Mimeur](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-bader-mimeur-chassagne-montrachet): A family estate that has farmed almost all the historic vines of the Château de Chassagne-Montrachet since 1919. (Chassagne-Montrachet · 20 min from Beaune) - [Domaine de Montmain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-de-montmain-villars-fontaine): A grower's domaine in the Hautes-Côtes de Nuits above Nuits-Saint-Georges, open for walk-in tastings and cellar visits. (Villars-Fontaine · 23 min from Beaune) - [Dufouleur Frères](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/dufouleur-freres-oenotheque-nuits-saint-georges): A Nuits-Saint-Georges family wine house since 1848, with a tasting room in the former stables of its château. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Caveau Moillard](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/caveau-moillard-nuits-saint-georges): The Nuits-Saint-Georges tasting cellar of the Moillard wine house, the Caveau des Mosaïques. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Guy et Yvan Dufouleur](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-guy-et-yvan-dufouleur-nuits-saint-georges): A family of growers in Nuits-Saint-Georges since 1596, selling 28 of its wines at its cellar in the town centre. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [L’Imaginarium](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/l-imaginarium): A playful wine centre in Nuits-Saint-Georges, with a sound-and-light show and guided tastings. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Domaine de la Folie](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-de-la-folie-chagny): A small Rully estate at Chagny, with the Clos Saint-Jacques monopole and a pioneer of cinema in its family tree. (Chagny · 24 min from Beaune) - [Maison Chanzy](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-chanzy-bouzeron): A Bouzeron estate founded in 1928, with the appellation's only monopole and a second cellar in Puligny-Montrachet. (Bouzeron · 25 min from Beaune) - [Romanée-Conti Vineyard (Vigne de la Romanée-Conti)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/romanee-conti-vineyard): A vineyard of about 1.8 hectares, marked by a stone cross and famous all over the world. (Vosne-Romanée · 26 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Armelle et Bernard Rion](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-armelle-et-bernard-rion-vosne-romanee): A Vosne-Romanée family domaine since 1896, where tastings pair the wines with Burgundy truffles. (Vosne-Romanée · 26 min from Beaune) - [Maison André Delorme](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-andre-delorme-rully): A Rully house founded in 1942 that helped create Crémant de Bourgogne, with vaulted cellars cut into the rock. (Rully · 26 min from Beaune) - [Boursot Père & Fils](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/boursot-pere-et-fils-chambolle-musigny): A Chambolle-Musigny family of winegrowers since 1550, whose grandfather opened the village's first tasting cellar. (Chambolle-Musigny · 28 min from Beaune) - [La Grande Cave de Vougeot](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/la-grande-cave-de-vougeot): A wine shop over 17th-century vaulted cellars at the foot of the Clos de Vougeot, with tastings from all over Burgundy. (Vougeot · 28 min from Beaune) - [Antonin Rodet](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/antonin-rodet-mercurey): A Mercurey wine house founded in 1875, with a tasting cellar in the stables of a 17th-century mansion. (Mercurey · 31 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Gérard Quivy](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-gerard-quivy-gevrey-chambertin): A family domaine in an early 18th-century winegrower's mansion, next to the tourist office in Gevrey-Chambertin. (Gevrey-Chambertin · 33 min from Beaune) - [Domaine Isabelle Lippe](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-isabelle-lippe-brochon): A small domaine in Brochon run by two women winegrowers, with tastings led by the grower herself. (Brochon · 34 min from Beaune) - [Côte Chalonnaise Wine House (Maison des Vins de la Côte Chalonnaise)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-des-vins-cote-chalonnaise): A tasting room in Chalon offering a jury-selected range of 144 wines from the Côte Chalonnaise. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 34 min from Beaune) - [Domaine du Clos Saint-Louis](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-du-clos-saint-louis-fixin): A five-generation family domaine in Fixin, with a vine-to-cellar visit and a tasting in a vaulted cellar. (Fixin · 35 min from Beaune) - [Wine Presses of the Dukes of Burgundy (Pressoirs des ducs de Bourgogne)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/pressoirs-des-ducs-chenove): Two giant 15th-century wine presses of the dukes of Burgundy, in the old village of Chenôve. (Chenôve · 40 min from Beaune) - [Les Vignerons de Mancey](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/vignerons-de-mancey-tournus): A growers' cooperative near Tournus, with a free trail on Burgundy wine and tastings of Mâcon-Mancey. (Tournus · 55 min from Beaune) - [Cave de Lugny](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cave-de-lugny): A 1927 cooperative, the leading producer of Mâcon-Villages, with a shop below the Charmes vineyard. (Lugny · 1 h 02 from Beaune) - [Domaine Fichet](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-fichet-ige): A family estate in the hamlet of Le Martoret at Igé, whose growers trace their roots back to 1408. (Igé · 1 h 09 from Beaune) - [Château de la Greffière et Musée de la Vigne et du Vin](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/chateau-de-la-greffiere-musee-de-la-vigne-et-du-vin): A family estate between Mâcon and Cluny, with a museum of 2,000 old tools and an 18th-century tasting cellar. (La Roche-Vineuse · 1 h 13 from Beaune) - [Cité des Climats et vins de Bourgogne, Mâcon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cite-des-climats-et-vins-macon): The Mâcon site of Burgundy's wine discovery centre, marked by a tower shaped like a wine-press screw. (Mâcon · 1 h 16 from Beaune) - [Domaine Luquet Depuis 1878](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-luquet-fuisse): A family estate in the heart of Fuissé since 1878, with six generations of Pouilly-Fuissé and Saint-Véran. (Fuissé · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Cave de Vinzelles-Loché](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cave-de-vinzelles-loche): The 1929 cooperative of Vinzelles and Loché, where three Pouilly appellations can be tasted side by side. (Vinzelles · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Domaine La Croix Montjoie](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-la-croix-montjoie): A family estate making Vézelay whites in an old château farm, with a terrace facing the basilica across the valley. (Tharoiseau · 1 h 25 from Beaune) - [Hameau Duboeuf](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hameau-duboeuf): A wine theme park in a former railway station, created by the Beaujolais merchant Georges Duboeuf. (Romanèche-Thorins · 1 h 27 from Beaune) - [Domaine Jean-Marc Brocard](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-jean-marc-brocard): A large family estate in Préhy, a pioneer of biodynamics in Chablis, with a panoramic tasting cellar. (Préhy · 1 h 41 from Beaune) - [Domaine Clotilde Davenne](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-clotilde-davenne): An oenologist's own domaine in Préhy, with small plots from Chablis to Saint-Bris and Irancy and visits in English. (Préhy · 1 h 41 from Beaune) - [Vignoble Dampt Frères](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/vignoble-dampt-freres-collan): Two brothers' estate in Collan spanning three valleys, from Chablis grands crus to the revived wines of Tonnerre and Épineuil. (Collan · 1 h 42 from Beaune) - [L’Obédiencerie, Domaine Laroche](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/obediencerie-domaine-laroche): A 9th-century monastic house in Chablis, with a medieval wine press and the cellars of Domaine Laroche. (Chablis · 1 h 43 from Beaune) - [Domaine Céline & Frédéric Gueguen](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-celine-et-frederic-gueguen): A young family domaine from two Chablis winemaking families, with a tasting cellar in the heart of Chablis. (Chablis · 1 h 43 from Beaune) - [Domaine William Fèvre](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-william-fevre-chablis): A leading Chablis estate with a large holding of grands crus, and a tasting room in the centre of Chablis. (Chablis · 1 h 43 from Beaune) - [La Chablisienne](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/la-chablisienne): The Chablis cooperative founded in 1923, with a tasting cellar covering every level of the appellation. (Chablis · 1 h 43 from Beaune) - [Cité des Climats et vins de Bourgogne, Chablis](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cite-des-climats-chablis): Burgundy's northern vineyards explained in the medieval cellar of the Pontigny monks. (Chablis · 1 h 43 from Beaune) - [Domaine Pierre-Louis et Jean-François Bersan](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-pierre-louis-et-jean-francois-bersan): A father-and-son estate whose wines age in a maze of medieval cellars beneath Saint-Bris-le-Vineux. (Saint-Bris-le-Vineux · 1 h 45 from Beaune) - [Caves Bailly Lapierre](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/caves-bailly-lapierre): Crémant de Bourgogne aged in vast medieval stone quarries above the river Yonne. (Saint-Bris-le-Vineux · 1 h 45 from Beaune) - [Domaine Borgnat](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-borgnat-escolives): A family estate and guest house in Escolives, with tastings in stacked 17th-century cellars and wines of Coulanges-la-Vineuse. (Escolives-Sainte-Camille · 1 h 45 from Beaune) - [Domaine du Clos du Roi](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/domaine-du-clos-du-roi-coulanges-la-vineuse): A family estate in Coulanges-la-Vineuse with free tastings, a wine bar of local produce and old oak casks under the church. (Coulanges-la-Vineuse · 1 h 45 from Beaune) ## Heritage - [Beaune Town Hall (Former Ursuline Convent), Hôtel de Ville de Beaune (ancien couvent des Ursulines)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hotel-de-ville-beaune-couvent-des-ursulines): Beaune's town hall, housed in a 17th-century Ursuline convent with a carved front added in 1817. (Beaune) - [Beaune Ramparts (Remparts de Beaune)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/remparts-de-beaune): A 2.5 km walk around Beaune's towers, bastions and gardens, with wine cellars inside the old walls. (Beaune) - [Beffroi de Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/beffroi-de-beaune): Beaune's medieval clock tower, bought by the town in 1395 and crowned by a lead-clad bell turret. (Beaune) - [Fresque de La Grande Vadrouille](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/fresque-la-grande-vadrouille-beaune): A painted wall in Beaune's old town that recalls the shooting of La Grande Vadrouille in 1966. (Beaune) - [Nuits-Saint-Georges Belfry (Beffroi de Nuits-Saint-Georges)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/beffroi-de-nuits-saint-georges): The 17th-century belfry that has watched over the main square of Nuits-Saint-Georges for four centuries. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Nolay and Its Medieval Market Hall (Nolay et ses halles médiévales)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/nolay-medieval-market-hall): A small medieval market town with a 14th-century hall roofed in heavy Burgundy stone slabs. (Nolay · 26 min from Beaune) - [Noisot Park and Museum (Parc et Musée Noisot)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/parc-noisot-fixin): A pine-covered hillside above Fixin, created by a loyal grenadier as a shrine to Napoleon. (Fixin · 34 min from Beaune) - [Old Town of Chalon-sur-Saône (Centre historique de Chalon-sur-Saône)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/centre-historique-chalon-sur-saone): Half-timbered houses, riverside quays and an island in the Saône, explored on a signed walking trail. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 35 min from Beaune) - [Champmol Charterhouse and the Well of Moses (Chartreuse de Champmol et Puits de Moïse)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/chartreuse-de-champmol): Claus Sluter's Well of Moses, a masterpiece of medieval sculpture, in the dukes' vanished charterhouse. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Philibert Church, Dijon (Église Saint-Philibert)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-philibert): Dijon's only Romanesque church, once the winegrowers' parish, now closed for a long restoration. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Palais de justice de Dijon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/palais-de-justice-parlement-de-bourgogne-dijon): The 16th-century home of the Parliament of Burgundy, now the court of appeal, with a gilded chamber and a great vaulted hall. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Historic Village of Talant (Site historique de Talant)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/talant): A hilltop village founded by the dukes, with a Gothic church and views over Lac Kir. (Talant · 44 min from Beaune) - [Monument à Sadi Carnot](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/monument-sadi-carnot-dijon): A marble and bronze memorial of 1899 to the assassinated President Sadi Carnot, rising from the fountains of Place de la République. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Hôtel des Postes de Dijon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hotel-des-postes-dijon): Dijon's grand post office of 1909, on the site of the vanished castle, with a clock framed by Day and Night. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Porte Guillaume](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/porte-guillaume-dijon): An 18th-century triumphal arch on Place Darcy, built on the site of a medieval city gate. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Hôtel de Vogüé](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hotel-de-vogue): An early 17th-century magistrate's mansion with a glazed tile roof, just behind Notre-Dame. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Maison Millière](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-milliere-dijon): A half-timbered merchant's house of 1483 beside Notre-Dame, on the street of Dijon's lucky owl. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Rue des Forges](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/rue-des-forges-hotel-chambellan-dijon): A medieval street of merchants' mansions behind the Palace of the Dukes, with a Gothic courtyard hidden at No. 34. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Tower of Philip the Good (Tour Philippe le Bon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/tour-philippe-le-bon): Climb 316 steps up the dukes' 46-metre tower for a sweeping view over Dijon's rooftops. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Palace of the Dukes and Estates of Burgundy (Palais des Ducs et des États de Bourgogne)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/palais-des-ducs-dijon): The seat of Burgundy's dukes and later of its Estates, now Dijon's town hall and museum. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Grand Théâtre de Dijon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/grand-theatre-de-dijon): A neoclassical theatre of 1828 with a portico of eight Corinthian columns, on the site of the dukes' Sainte-Chapelle. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Place de la Libération](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/place-de-la-liberation-dijon): Dijon's half-moon royal square, laid out by Louis XIV's architect in front of the Palace of the Dukes. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Porte Saint-André](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/porte-saint-andre-autun): The best-preserved Roman gate of Autun, with its arcaded gallery and a tower that is now a Protestant church. (Autun · 47 min from Beaune) - [Roman Theatre of Autun (Théâtre romain d’Autun)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/theatre-romain-autun): One of the largest theatres of Roman Gaul, still used for performances on summer nights. (Autun · 47 min from Beaune) - [Couhard Stone (Pierre de Couhard)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/pierre-de-couhard-autun): A mysterious Roman pyramid on the hillside above Autun, with a wide view over the town. (Autun · 47 min from Beaune) - [Temple of Janus (Temple de Janus)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/temple-de-janus-autun): Two towering walls of a Gallo-Roman temple standing alone in the meadows outside Autun. (Autun · 48 min from Beaune) - [Arroux Gate (Porte d’Arroux)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/porte-d-arroux-autun): A Roman city gate from the reign of Augustus, with its four arches still standing. (Autun · 48 min from Beaune) - [Remparts d’Autun et tour des Ursulines](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/remparts-d-autun-tour-des-ursulines): Six kilometres of Roman walls, two thirds still standing, ending at a medieval tower crowned by the Virgin. (Autun · 48 min from Beaune) - [Croix de la Libération](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/croix-de-la-liberation-autun): A great stone cross raised in 1945 on a hill above Autun, with the widest view over the town. (Autun · 49 min from Beaune) - [Flavigny-sur-Ozerain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/flavigny-sur-ozerain): A walled hilltop village of stone lanes, medieval gates and aniseed sweets, facing the Alésia battlefield. (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain · 1 h 02 from Beaune) - [Bibracte](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/bibracte-mont-beuvray): The Gallic capital of the Aedui, hidden in the forest of Mont Beuvray, with a modern archaeology museum. (Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray · 1 h 03 from Beaune) - [Semur-en-Auxois](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/semur-en-auxois): A fortified town on a pink granite spur, looped by the river Armançon and guarded by great towers. (Semur-en-Auxois · 1 h 06 from Beaune) - [Cluny National Stud (Haras national de Cluny)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/haras-national-de-cluny): A national stud founded under Napoleon, built on the site of Cluny's great abbey church. (Cluny · 1 h 07 from Beaune) - [Tour des Fromages](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/tour-des-fromages-cluny): A tower of the abbey wall of Cluny, with 120 steps up to the best view of the abbey town. (Cluny · 1 h 07 from Beaune) - [Pont Saint-Laurent](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/pont-saint-laurent-macon): The oldest bridge across the Saône, joining Mâcon to the Ain on twelve stone arches. (Mâcon · 1 h 17 from Beaune) - [Buffon’s Great Forge (Grande Forge de Buffon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/grande-forge-de-buffon): An 18th-century ironworks built by the naturalist Buffon on the banks of the Armançon. (Buffon · 1 h 18 from Beaune) - [Tour Saint-Nicolas](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/tour-saint-nicolas-paray-le-monial): The tower of a 16th-century parish church that became a prison, a town hall and an exhibition hall. (Paray-le-Monial · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Hôtel de ville de Paray-le-Monial (Maison Jayet)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hotel-de-ville-paray-le-monial-maison-jayet): A cloth merchant's Renaissance house, its façade covered with carved medallions, now the town hall. (Paray-le-Monial · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Avallon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/avallon): A walled town on a granite spur above the Cousin valley, with Romanesque portals and a clock tower. (Avallon · 1 h 22 from Beaune) - [Site archéologique des Fontaines Salées](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/fontaines-salees): Salt springs used for more than 4,000 years, with oak well casings, a Gallo-Roman bath complex and a discovery centre below Vézelay. (Saint-Père · 1 h 26 from Beaune) - [Maison Jules-Roy](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-jules-roy-vezelay): The writer Jules Roy's last home in Vézelay, with his study kept as he left it and terraced gardens facing the basilica. (Vézelay · 1 h 28 from Beaune) - [Vieux Château de Noyers](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/vieux-chateau-de-noyers): The overgrown ruins of one of Burgundy's great medieval fortresses, on a spur above the Serein, brought back to life by volunteers. (Noyers · 1 h 30 from Beaune) - [Noyers-sur-Serein](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/noyers-sur-serein): A walled medieval village in a loop of the Serein, with timber-framed squares and fortified gates. (Noyers · 1 h 30 from Beaune) - [Hôtel-Dieu de Tonnerre](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hotel-dieu-de-tonnerre): Said to be the longest medieval hospital in Europe, founded in 1293 by a queen of Sicily. (Tonnerre · 1 h 40 from Beaune) - [Site archéologique d’Escolives-Sainte-Camille](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/site-archeologique-escolives-sainte-camille): The baths of a Gallo-Roman villa on the Via Agrippa, built on reused carved stones, with a Merovingian cemetery among the ruins. (Escolives-Sainte-Camille · 1 h 45 from Beaune) - [Auxerre Old Town and Clock Tower (Auxerre, tour de l’Horloge et vieille ville)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/auxerre-old-town): Half-timbered streets, a medieval clock that tracks the moon, and church spires above the river Yonne. (Auxerre · 1 h 51 from Beaune) ## Museums - [Hospices de Beaune (Hôtel-Dieu), Hôtel-Dieu des Hospices Civils de Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hospices-de-beaune-hotel-dieu): Beaune's 15th-century hospital for the poor, crowned by its famous roofs of glazed, patterned tiles. (Beaune) - [Beaune Fine Arts Museum (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Beaune)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-des-beaux-arts-beaune): Beaune's fine arts museum, reopened in 2026, from Neolithic finds to the Venetian views of Félix Ziem. (Beaune) - [Franco-American Friendship Museum, Beaune (Historial de l’Amitié Franco-Américaine de Beaune)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/historial-amitie-franco-americaine-beaune): A volunteer-run museum on the American army hospital and university camp at Beaune in 1918 and 1919. (Beaune) - [Nuits-Saint-Georges Museum (Musée de Nuits-Saint-Georges)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-de-nuits-saint-georges): Gallo-Roman and Merovingian finds displayed in the vaulted cellars of a former wine house. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Le Cassissium](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cassissium): A museum and working liqueur house devoted to Burgundy's blackcurrant, with a tasting to finish. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Vivant Denon Museum (Musée Vivant Denon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-vivant-denon): Chalon's museum of art and archaeology, named after the first director of the Louvre. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 35 min from Beaune) - [Nicéphore Niépce Museum (Musée Nicéphore Niépce)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-nicephore-niepce): A museum of photography in the home town of its inventor, from the first cameras to digital images. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 35 min from Beaune) - [Nicéphore Niépce’s House (Maison Nicéphore Niépce)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-nicephore-niepce): The country house near Chalon where Nicéphore Niépce made the oldest surviving camera photograph. (Saint-Loup-de-Varennes · 41 min from Beaune) - [Dijon Archaeological Museum (Musée archéologique de Dijon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-archeologique-dijon): Gallo-Roman gods, Bronze Age treasure and medieval sculpture in the old abbey of Saint-Bénigne. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Dijon Museum of Sacred Art (Musée d’Art sacré de Dijon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-art-sacre-dijon): Treasures from the churches of Côte-d'Or, shown in the domed church of the Bernardine nuns. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Museum of Burgundian Life (Musée de la Vie bourguignonne Perrin de Puycousin)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-vie-bourguignonne): Everyday life in old Burgundy, with costumes and a street of Dijon shops, in a convent cloister. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Consortium Museum](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/consortium-museum): A pioneering contemporary art centre founded in 1977, in a building remodelled by Shigeru Ban. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Dijon Fine Arts Museum (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-des-beaux-arts-dijon): One of the oldest museums in France, home to the tombs of the Valois dukes of Burgundy. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [François Rude Museum (Musée François Rude)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-rude): A full-size cast of the Marseillaise from the Arc de Triomphe, inside a former Dijon church. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Magnin Museum (Musée national Magnin)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-magnin): A brother and sister's art collection, shown as a private home in a 17th-century mansion. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Hôtel-Dieu de Tournus](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hotel-dieu-de-tournus): A 17th-century hospital with its wards, oak box beds and one of the oldest apothecaries in France. (Tournus · 56 min from Beaune) - [Musée du Vélo Michel Grézaud](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-du-velo-michel-grezaud-tournus): Nearly 200 bicycles, from an 1818 draisine to a carbon racing machine, in a former starch factory south of Tournus. (Tournus · 56 min from Beaune) - [François Pompon Museum (Musée François Pompon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-francois-pompon): Sleek animal sculptures by the Saulieu-born artist who made the famous White Bear. (Saulieu · 57 min from Beaune) - [Museum of the Resistance in the Morvan (Musée de la Résistance en Morvan)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-de-la-resistance-en-morvan): The story of the Morvan maquis, told in the heart of the forests where they fought. (Saint-Brisson · 1 h 04 from Beaune) - [MuséoParc Alésia](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/museoparc-alesia): The battlefield where Caesar defeated Vercingetorix, with a modern museum, Roman siege works and a Gallo-Roman town. (Alise-Sainte-Reine · 1 h 05 from Beaune) - [Ursulines Museum, Mâcon (Musée des Ursulines)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-des-ursulines-macon): Mâcon's museum of art and archaeology, in a 17th-century convent, with rooms devoted to Lamartine. (Mâcon · 1 h 16 from Beaune) - [Solutré Museum of Prehistory (Musée de Préhistoire de Solutré)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-de-prehistoire-de-solutre): A half-buried museum at the foot of the rock, telling the story of Solutré's Ice Age hunters. (Solutré-Pouilly · 1 h 17 from Beaune) - [Musée du Hiéron](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-du-hieron-paray-le-monial): One of the first buildings in France designed as a museum, with an iron-framed hall and a Romanesque portal inside. (Paray-le-Monial · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Musée Paul Charnoz](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-paul-charnoz-paray-le-monial): A tile factory museum with two giant rose designs made for the Paris World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900. (Paray-le-Monial · 1 h 20 from Beaune) - [Musée du Costume](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-du-costume-avallon): A new exhibition of period clothes every year, in the rooms of a town house once owned by the princes of Condé. (Avallon · 1 h 22 from Beaune) - [Musée de l’Avallonnais Jean Després](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-de-l-avallonnais): Avallon's free town museum, from local archaeology to the Art Deco silver of Jean Després and a rare Yao collection. (Avallon · 1 h 22 from Beaune) - [Châtillonnais Museum and the Vix Treasure (Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, Trésor de Vix)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-du-pays-chatillonnais-tresor-de-vix): Home of the Vix krater, the largest known metal vessel from Western classical antiquity. (Châtillon-sur-Seine · 1 h 27 from Beaune) - [Zervos Museum of Modern Art (Musée départemental d’art moderne, collection Zervos)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-zervos-vezelay): Picasso, Calder and Miró in the Vézelay house where the writer Romain Rolland spent his last years. (Vézelay · 1 h 28 from Beaune) - [Musée des Arts Naïfs et Populaires de Noyers](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-des-arts-naifs-et-populaires-noyers): Naive paintings, ex-votos, tin toys and Hokusai albums on three floors of an old school in the village of Noyers. (Noyers · 1 h 30 from Beaune) - [Musée de la Vigne et du Tire-Bouchon, Domaine Alain Geoffroy](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/musee-de-la-vigne-et-du-tire-bouchon-beine): Nearly 5,000 corkscrews and the old tools of the vineyard in the cellars of a Chablis family estate, with a tasting to finish. (Beine · 1 h 46 from Beaune) - [Saint-Germain Abbey, Auxerre (Abbaye Saint-Germain d’Auxerre)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-saint-germain-auxerre): A great Carolingian abbey whose crypts hold the oldest known wall paintings in France. (Auxerre · 1 h 51 from Beaune) - [Muséum d’histoire naturelle d’Auxerre](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/museum-histoire-naturelle-auxerre): Auxerre's free natural history museum, in a 19th-century house with a formal garden, with changing exhibitions on nature and science. (Auxerre · 1 h 51 from Beaune) ## Abbeys & churches - [Saint-Nicolas Church, Beaune (Église Saint-Nicolas)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-nicolas-beaune): A Romanesque parish church outside the old walls, with a porch carved with chimeras and a stone spire. (Beaune) - [Shrine of the Child Jesus, Beaune (Sanctuaire de l’Enfant-Jésus de Beaune)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/sanctuaire-enfant-jesus-beaune): The former Carmel of Beaune, a place of prayer devoted to the Child Jesus since the 17th century. (Beaune) - [Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, Beaune (Collégiale Notre-Dame de Beaune)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-notre-dame-beaune): One of Burgundy's last great Romanesque churches, with five tapestries of the Life of the Virgin. (Beaune) - [Église Saint-Nicolas de Meursault](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-nicolas-meursault): Meursault's Gothic church, whose 57-metre stone spire rises above the village and its vineyards. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Église Saint-Symphorien](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-symphorien-nuits-saint-georges): A 13th-century church in the old winegrowers' quarter of Nuits-Saint-Georges, still marked by the Romanesque style. (Nuits-Saint-Georges · 24 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Vivant Abbey, Vergy (Abbaye de Saint-Vivant de Vergy)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-saint-vivant-de-vergy): Restored ruins of the Cluniac priory whose monks once owned the great vines of Vosne-Romanée. (Curtil-Vergy · 25 min from Beaune) - [Cîteaux Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Cîteaux)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-citeaux): The mother house of the Cistercian order, founded in 1098 and still home to monks. (Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux · 31 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Antoine Church, Fixey (Église Saint-Antoine de Fixey)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-antoine-de-fixey): A small Romanesque church above the vines of Fixin, with a stone roof and a glazed-tile bell tower. (Fixin · 35 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Vincent Cathedral, Chalon-sur-Saône (Cathédrale Saint-Vincent de Chalon-sur-Saône)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cathedrale-saint-vincent-chalon-sur-saone): A Romanesque and Gothic cathedral, newly reopened, beside the region's only surviving canons' cloister. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 35 min from Beaune) - [Église Saint-Pierre de Chalon-sur-Saône](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-pierre-chalon-sur-saone): A Baroque church with twin domed towers, where the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Cluny took their first vows. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 35 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Bénigne Cathedral, Dijon (Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne de Dijon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cathedrale-saint-benigne): A Gothic abbey church turned cathedral, above a round crypt from around the year 1000. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Church of Notre-Dame, Dijon (Église Notre-Dame de Dijon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/notre-dame-dijon): A 13th-century Gothic church with a famous clock, false gargoyles and Dijon's lucky owl. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Michel Church, Dijon (Église Saint-Michel de Dijon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-michel-dijon): A late Gothic church behind a Renaissance façade with classical orders stacked one above another. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Lazare Cathedral, Autun (Cathédrale Saint-Lazare d’Autun)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cathedrale-saint-lazare-autun): A Romanesque cathedral whose Last Judgement portal, signed by the sculptor Gislebertus, survived under plaster. (Autun · 48 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Philibert Abbey, Tournus (Abbaye Saint-Philibert de Tournus)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-saint-philibert-tournus): One of the great Romanesque churches of France, with unusual crosswise vaults and a complete monastic setting. (Tournus · 55 min from Beaune) - [Saint-Martin Church, Chapaize (Église Saint-Martin de Chapaize)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-martin-chapaize): An early Romanesque priory church whose tall Lombard bell tower rises over the countryside west of Tournus. (Chapaize · 56 min from Beaune) - [Basilica of Saint-Andoche, Saulieu (Basilique Saint-Andoche)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/basilique-saint-andoche-saulieu): A Romanesque church on the old Paris to Lyon road, famous for its carved capitals. (Saulieu · 57 min from Beaune) - [Taizé Community (Communauté de Taizé)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/communaute-de-taize): An ecumenical community of brothers in a Burgundian village, where visitors may join the daily prayer. (Taizé · 1 h from Beaune) - [Église Saint-Genest de Flavigny-sur-Ozerain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-genest-flavigny): A village church with galleries on two levels, a carved Gothic tribune and a hundred statues, now under restoration inside. (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain · 1 h 02 from Beaune) - [Collégiale Notre-Dame de Semur-en-Auxois](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-notre-dame-semur-en-auxois): A tall, narrow Gothic church whose windows show the drapers and butchers of Semur at work, and one remembers American soldiers. (Semur-en-Auxois · 1 h 06 from Beaune) - [Cluny Abbey (Abbaye de Cluny)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-cluny): The remains of the largest church in medieval Christendom, heart of a monastic order that spread across Europe. (Cluny · 1 h 07 from Beaune) - [Église Notre-Dame de Cluny](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-notre-dame-cluny): Cluny's Gothic parish church, watched over by fifty carved faces and the three-faced Pidou-Berlu. (Cluny · 1 h 07 from Beaune) - [Pierre-qui-Vire Abbey (Abbaye Sainte-Marie de la Pierre-qui-Vire)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-la-pierre-qui-vire): A living Benedictine monastery deep in the Morvan forest, beside a legendary rocking stone. (Saint-Léger-Vauban · 1 h 09 from Beaune) - [Monks’ Chapel, Berzé-la-Ville (Chapelle des Moines de Berzé-la-Ville)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/chapelle-des-moines-berze-la-ville): A small Romanesque chapel holding the only surviving monumental paintings of Cluny's great age. (Berzé-la-Ville · 1 h 12 from Beaune) - [Fontenay Abbey (Abbaye de Fontenay)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-fontenay): One of the best-preserved Cistercian abbeys in the world, alone in a quiet wooded valley of the Auxois. (Marmagne · 1 h 14 from Beaune) - [Église Saint-Pierre de Mâcon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-pierre-macon): Mâcon's largest church, a neo-Romanesque landmark whose twin spires rise above the Saône. (Mâcon · 1 h 17 from Beaune) - [Collégiale Notre-Dame de Montréal](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-notre-dame-montreal): A small 12th-century church on a hilltop village, with one of the oldest rose windows in France and richly carved Renaissance stalls. (Montréal · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Chapelle de la Visitation (Chapelle des Apparitions)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/chapelle-de-la-visitation-paray-le-monial): The convent chapel where Margaret Mary Alacoque saw Christ show his heart, and where her relics lie. (Paray-le-Monial · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Paray-le-Monial](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/basilique-du-sacre-coeur-paray-le-monial): A Romanesque priory church built on the model of Cluny, at the heart of a pilgrimage town. (Paray-le-Monial · 1 h 19 from Beaune) - [Collégiale Saint-Lazare d’Avallon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/collegiale-saint-lazare-avallon): A pilgrimage church whose 12th-century portals carry some of the richest Romanesque carving in Burgundy. (Avallon · 1 h 22 from Beaune) - [Église Notre-Dame de Saint-Père](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-notre-dame-saint-pere): A luminous Gothic church at the foot of Vézelay hill, with a 50-metre bell tower and a carved porch restored after Viollet-le-Duc. (Saint-Père · 1 h 27 from Beaune) - [Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Vézelay (Basilique Sainte-Marie-Madeleine de Vézelay)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/basilique-de-vezelay): A Romanesque masterpiece crowning a hill, where Saint Bernard preached the Second Crusade. (Vézelay · 1 h 28 from Beaune) - [Saint-Étienne Cathedral, Auxerre (Cathédrale Saint-Étienne d’Auxerre)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cathedrale-saint-etienne-auxerre): A Gothic cathedral above the Yonne, with 13th-century glass and a rare painting of Christ on horseback. (Auxerre · 1 h 51 from Beaune) - [Église Saint-Pierre d’Auxerre](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-pierre-auxerre): The winegrowers' church of Auxerre, with a flamboyant tower, a classical façade and a Renaissance gateway inspired by Naples. (Auxerre · 1 h 51 from Beaune) - [Église Saint-Eusèbe d’Auxerre](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-eusebe-auxerre): A church on the site of a 7th-century monastery, with a Romanesque bell tower and a bright Renaissance choir of stained glass. (Auxerre · 1 h 51 from Beaune) - [Pontigny Abbey (Abbaye de Pontigny)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/abbaye-de-pontigny): One of the largest Cistercian churches still standing, linked to three archbishops of Canterbury. (Pontigny · 1 h 52 from Beaune) ## Food makers - [Alain Hess Cheese Shop (Fromagerie Alain Hess)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/fromagerie-alain-hess-beaune): Beaune's master cheesemonger on the place Carnot, and the creator of the Délice de Pommard cheese. (Beaune) - [L’Atelier des Bonbons](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/atelier-des-bonbons-beaune): Watch artisan confectioners cook and shape hand-made sweets in a small Beaune workshop. (Beaune) - [Edmond Fallot Mustard Mill (Moutarderie Edmond Fallot)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/moutarderie-fallot-beaune): An independent family mustard mill since 1840, still grinding seeds between millstones on the edge of Beaune. (Beaune) - [Sab’s by Alambic Bourguignon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/distillerie-sabs-alambic-bourguignon-beaune): A craft distillery whose travelling still turns Burgundy grape marc and wine lees into brandies and gins. (Beaune) - [Fruirouge Farm (Ferme Fruirouge)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/ferme-fruirouge): A family blackcurrant and red fruit farm in the Hautes-Côtes, with visits, a film and tastings. (Nuits-Saint-Georges, hamlet of Concœur · 25 min from Beaune) - [Gaugry Cheese Dairy (Fromagerie Gaugry)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/fromagerie-gaugry-brochon): Époisses and Ami du Chambertin from a family cheese dairy on the Route des Grands Crus. (Brochon · 34 min from Beaune) - [Mulot & Petitjean Gingerbread Factory (La Fabrique de pain d’épices Mulot & Petitjean)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/mulot-petitjean): Dijon's historic gingerbread maker, with a museum space above the working bakery. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [International City of Gastronomy and Wine (Cité internationale de la gastronomie et du vin)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cite-gastronomie-vin-dijon): Burgundy's showcase of French food and wine, set in a hospital founded in 1204. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Fallot Shop and Workshop, Dijon (La Boutique Atelier Fallot)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/fallot-dijon): An independent family mustard house, with a tasting shop and workshop near the owl. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Boutique Maille](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/maison-maille-dijon): Maille's historic Dijon mustard shop, where fresh mustard is served from the pump. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Maison Lejay Lagoute](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/lejay-lagoute): The Dijon house behind the original crème de cassis, first perfected in the city in 1841. (Dijon · 46 min from Beaune) - [Les Anis de Flavigny](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/anis-de-flavigny): Aniseed sweets made in a Benedictine abbey, with a Carolingian crypt beneath the workshops. (Flavigny-sur-Ozerain · 1 h 02 from Beaune) ## Markets - [Beaune Market (Marché de Beaune)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/marche-de-beaune): Beaune's Saturday market fills the covered halls and squares facing the Hôtel-Dieu with local produce. (Beaune) - [Chalon-sur-Saône Market (Marché de Chalon-sur-Saône)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/marche-de-chalon-sur-saone): A Friday and Sunday morning food market on Place Saint-Vincent, in front of the cathedral. (Chalon-sur-Saône · 35 min from Beaune) - [Dijon Covered Market (Les Halles), Les Halles de Dijon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/halles-de-dijon): Dijon's 19th-century iron market hall, busy with Burgundy produce four mornings a week. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Cluny Market (Marché de Cluny)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/marche-de-cluny): A Saturday morning market in the streets of Cluny's medieval town, right beside the abbey. (Cluny · 1 h 07 from Beaune) ## Nature & viewpoints - [Bouzaize Park (Parc de la Bouzaize)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/parc-de-la-bouzaize-beaune): A romantic 19th-century English-style park around the spring of the Bouzaize, just outside the old town. (Beaune) - [Beaune Premiers Crus Walk (Circuit No. 12), Circuit n°12, à travers quelques premiers crus de Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/circuit-premiers-crus-de-beaune): An easy six-kilometre loop from the Parc de la Bouzaize through Beaune's premier cru vineyards. (Beaune) - [Cirque du Bout du Monde](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/cirque-du-bout-du-monde): A limestone amphitheatre near Nolay, with sheer cliffs, a spring-fed waterfall and falcons overhead. (Cormot-Vauchignon · 24 min from Beaune) - [Mont de Sène (Hill of the Three Crosses), Mont de Sène (Montagne des Trois Croix)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/mont-de-sene-trois-croix): A 521-metre summit crowned by three crosses, looking over the vineyards of Santenay and the Maranges. (Dezize-lès-Maranges · 25 min from Beaune) - [Combe Lavaux–Jean Roland Nature Reserve (Réserve naturelle de la Combe Lavaux - Jean Roland)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/combe-lavaux-nature-reserve): Limestone cliffs, dry grassland and ravine forest just above the grand cru vineyards of Gevrey-Chambertin. (Gevrey-Chambertin · 32 min from Beaune) - [Colombière Park (Parc de la Colombière)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/parc-de-la-colombiere): A 17th-century park laid out for the Princes of Condé, crossed by a Roman road. (Dijon · 42 min from Beaune) - [Lake Kir (Lac Kir)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/lac-kir): Dijon's lake, opened in 1964 and named after the mayor who gave kir its name. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Arquebuse Botanical Garden (Jardin de l’Arquebuse)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/jardin-de-l-arquebuse): A botanical garden, natural history museum and planetarium beside Dijon station. (Dijon · 43 min from Beaune) - [Darcy Garden (Jardin Darcy)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/jardin-darcy): Dijon's first public garden, built over Henry Darcy's reservoir and guarded by a polar bear. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Signal d’Uchon](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/signal-d-uchon): A granite summit on the southern edge of the Morvan, scattered with strange boulders and wide views. (Uchon · 54 min from Beaune) - [Source of the Seine (Sources de la Seine)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/sources-de-la-seine): The quiet green valley where the Seine begins, guarded by a stone grotto and a river nymph. (Source-Seine · 56 min from Beaune) - [Mont Saint-Romain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/mont-saint-romain): A summit of almost 580 metres in the Mâconnais hills, with a rooftop viewing table facing the Alps. (Blanot · 1 h 02 from Beaune) - [Lake Settons (Lac des Settons)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/lac-des-settons): A granite-dammed lake in the heart of the Morvan, built to float firewood to Paris. (Montsauche-les-Settons · 1 h 03 from Beaune) - [Morvan Regional Nature Park (Parc naturel régional du Morvan)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/parc-naturel-regional-du-morvan): Burgundy's little mountain of granite, forests and lakes, with its park headquarters at Saint-Brisson. (Saint-Brisson · 1 h 04 from Beaune) - [Azé Caves (Grottes d’Azé)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/grottes-d-aze): Two caves in the Mâconnais hills: an underground river and a prehistoric cave of bears and lions. (Azé · 1 h 06 from Beaune) - [Rock of Vergisson (Roche de Vergisson)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/roche-de-vergisson): Solutré's quieter twin, a limestone cliff above the village of Vergisson with views across the vineyards. (Vergisson · 1 h 16 from Beaune) - [Rock of Solutré (Roche de Solutré)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/roche-de-solutre): A limestone escarpment rising above the Pouilly-Fuissé vineyards, famous for its Ice Age hunters. (Solutré-Pouilly · 1 h 17 from Beaune) - [Forests National Park (Parc national de forêts)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/parc-national-de-forets): France's newest national park, created to protect vast lowland forests of oak and beech. (Leuglay · 1 h 23 from Beaune) - [Douix Spring (Source de la Douix)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/source-de-la-douix): A powerful karst spring bursting from a limestone cliff in the heart of Châtillon-sur-Seine. (Châtillon-sur-Seine · 1 h 27 from Beaune) - [Arcy-sur-Cure Caves (Grottes d’Arcy-sur-Cure)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/grottes-d-arcy-sur-cure): A limestone cave by the river Cure with the oldest cave paintings open to the public in France. (Arcy-sur-Cure · 1 h 32 from Beaune) - [Fosse Dionne](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/fosse-dionne-tonnerre): A deep karst spring and 18th-century wash house at the heart of Tonnerre. (Tonnerre · 1 h 40 from Beaune) ## Activities - [La Voie des Vignes](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/voie-des-vignes-beaune-santenay): A 22-kilometre cycle route from Beaune to Santenay through Pommard, Volnay, Meursault and the Montrachet villages. (Beaune) - [Visiotrain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/visiotrain-beaune): A small electric tourist train with commentary that loops through Beaune's old town and past its vineyards. (Beaune) - [Hot-Air Balloon Flights over the Vineyards (Montgolfière au-dessus des vignes)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/hot-air-balloon-flights): Float over the Côte at dawn, with villages, châteaux and vineyards laid out below. (Meursault · 14 min from Beaune) - [Route des Grands Crus](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/route-des-grands-crus): Burgundy's historic wine road, about 60 kilometres of vineyards and villages from Dijon to Santenay. (Dijon to Santenay · 28 min from Beaune) - [Southern Burgundy Greenway (Voie Verte de Bourgogne du Sud)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/voie-verte-givry-cluny): A car-free cycle path on an old railway line, running from the Givry vineyards to Cluny. (Givry · 36 min from Beaune) - [The Owl’s Trail (Parcours de la Chouette)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/parcours-de-la-chouette): Follow bronze owl arrows set in the pavement on a self-guided walk through old Dijon. (Dijon · 44 min from Beaune) - [Guédelon Castle (Chantier médiéval de Guédelon)](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/chateau-de-guedelon): A 13th-century castle being built today, by hand, with the tools and materials of the Middle Ages. (Treigny · 2 h from Beaune) --- Canonical page: