Pouilly sur Loire

Driving time 1 minute (1 km)
Pouilly sur Loire is a small authentic French village, untouched by tourists, and a destination for wine and cheese coinsures. Featuring small restaurants with locally made cheeses, wines, and duck liver. Set along the Loire River, the only untouched river in Europe. Pouilly sur Loire is located 2 hours from Paris and is set alongside the last "wild" river in Europe, the Loire River

Chateau du Nozet

Driving time 5 minutes (1 km)
Surrounded by perfectly trimmed vines in a gorgeous setting in Pouilly sur Loire, this soaring spectacle would be a draw in it's own right even if it did not also produce the world's most famous Pouilly Fume Wine. The oldest building on the property is a former press house that turns 200 years old this year.

Vezelay

Driving time 1 hour 20 minutes (77 km)
An attractive 12th century village, listed in UNESCO as being a World Heritage Site. Featuring the Abbey of Saint Mary Magdalene. The Basilica Church of St. Mary Magdalene is the largest Romanesque church in France and only 10 yards shorter than the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. As it claimed to guard the relics of St. Mary Magdalen, Vézelay was a major medieval pilgrimage destination. It also saw the launch of the Second and Third Crusades.

Vezelay Basilica

Driving time 1 hour 20 minutes (77 km)
The basilica in Vézelay is the very nucleus of this charming medieval town and it is certainly one of the treasures of Burgundy. Famous throughout history as the starting off point for the Crusades, today it is still a centre for pilgrimages to the shrine of Santiago de Compostela in northern Spain.

Hospices de Beaune

Driving time 2 hours 43 minutes (196 km)
A unique monument, a “Palace for the Poor”, preserved from the middle ages (built 1443). It was founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, as a hospital for the poor and needy. The original hospital building, the Hôtel-Dieu, one of the finest examples of French fifteenth-century architecture, is now a museum visited by more the 400,000 tourists every year.

Sancerre

Driving time 21 minutes (16 km
As you approach Sancerre by car, it seems to be have been lifted out of the ground and placed on a pedestal. Stand on the edge of this pedestal and there is a fine view of the Loire countryside: wheat fields, vineyards and hamlets are scattered like peppercorns on the mulit-colored landscape. Sancerre is more than one village: It is a region, one in which the color and texture of the land - slightly rolling hills interspersed with vineyard green and wheat white-gold -set the tone.

Chateau Saint Fargeau

Driving time 40 minutes (54 km)
Between the Loire and l’Yonne, the small town Saint Fargeau is Puisaye’s history capital. The Castle of Saint Fargeau stands proudly in a belt full of charm and mystery. The Castle of Saint Fargeau is more than 1000 years old, it is the most important history place of Puisaye Forterre.

Bourges Cathedral

Driving time 1 hour 2 minutes (57.6 km)
Bourges cathedral is now on the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites in France who describe the cathedral as a 'masterpiece of gothic art. There are clear similarities in the external design between Bourges cathedral and Notre Dame cathedral, Paris. From the outside of the cathedral you can see, and the extensive use of flying buttresses, that stand out. Flying buttresses (the thin ribs along the sides of the building) enabled taller cathedrals to be built, with thinner walls.

Guédelon Chateau

Driving time 39 minutes (45 km)
In the heart of Puisaye, in Yonne, Burgundy, a team of fifty people have taken on an extraordinary feat : to build a castle using the very same techniques and materials used in the Middle Ages. In a secluded woodland, an abandoned quarry reveals a landscape, seemingly untouched since the dawn of the last millennium. Out of this wood and stone, using 13th century building techniques, a castle is being created.

La Charite-Cathedral

Driving time 12 minutes (15 km)
In the secret town of La Charite sur Loire, a monastic city originally found by Benedictine abbot from Cluny that has, in recent years, become a "booktown", there is a lot to discover. The heritage officially recognized by UNESCO, the numerous book shops, not forgetting the natural environment, forests, vineyards and the wild river Loire.