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The glorious Cascade
l’Eventail, which cuts
the River Hérisson

quarter in the centre of town,
full of winding alleys, houses
that date back to the 15th
EXPERIENCE Burgundy and Franche-Comté the mossy-roofed, 16th-
cen tury and quiet court yards.
Place aux Fleurs offers a good
view of this part of town and
century Église Notre-Dame.
Southeast of Dole is the
18th-century Château d’Arlay,
with immaculate gardens.

27
Arc-et-Senans
! F4 ⌂ Doubs £ n 3A
rue de la Saline; www.
destinationlouelison.com
A World Heritage Site since
1982, the Saline Royale (Royal
Saltworks) at Arc-et-Senans
were designed by the great
French architect Claude-
25 Saut. The walk, which takes Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806).
about two hours there and
He envisaged concentric
Cascades du Hérisson back, is steep at times and circles around the main build-
can be slippery, so suitable ings, but the only ones to be
! F4 ⌂ Jura n Clairvaux-
les-Lacs; 03 84 25 27 47 footwear is essential. completed (in 1775) were
those used for the production
The village of Doucier, at the of salt. Nevertheless, these
foot of the Pic de l’Aigle, is the 26 show the staggering scale of
starting point for the valley of his idea: salt water was to be
the River Hérisson, one of the Dole piped from Salins-les-Bains
finest natural settings in the ! F4 ⌂ Jura £ @ n 6 place
Jura. Park by Moulin Jacquand Grévy; www.tourisme-
and walk up the trail through paysde dole.fr
the woods to a spectacular
water fall, the 65-m (213-ft) The busy town of Dole lies
Cascade de L’Eventail, and where the River Doubs meets
beyond to view the equally the Rhine-Rhône canal. The
impressive Cascade du Grand former capital of the Comté
was al ways a symbol of the
region’s resistance to the
PICTURE PERFECT French. The people here were
Cliffs of Solutré used to relative independ-
This gigantic limestone ence, first under the counts of
escarpment rises up Burgundy and then within the
over the Pouilly-Fuissé Holy Roman Empire. Though
vineyards 8 km (5 miles) always French-speaking, its
west of Mâcon. Long people did not appreciate the
before there was wine idea of the French absolute
here, it was inhabited monarchy and during 1636
during the Mousterian endured a very long siege; the
era, 52,000 years ago. town eventually submitted.
There is a charming old
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