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  LANDSCAPES
Etang vers "Le Mirroir"The Burgundian Bresse is a large hilly plain, huddled up between the foothills of Jura in the East, the Doubs in the North and the Saône in the West.
It’s distinguished by its grove, its cereals’ cultures, its woods.
Many ponds and rivers are scattered over Bresse and enjoy fishers of carps, pikes, zanders, black bass or silurids...
The most important river, the Seille, which is navigable along 39 km between Louhans and La Truchère, has its source in the foothills of Jura before crossing the Burgundian Bresse with its calm and winding water flow.

 

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Boating through the four locks, you will admire meadows with a very particular kind of fauna and flora whose some of them are protected.
To be better acquainted with the different natural environments of Bresse and Burgundy, visitors will be able to go to the Eden Centre in Cuisery and to the Natural Reserve of La Truchère-Ratenelle.

 
  ARCHITECTURE
Lovers of beautiful stones and authentic sights, let be delighted !
The Bresse will charm you with its beautiful manors, with its farms made with bricks and timber walls.
You will notice the beauty of pink stones which characterize some churches.
At the bend of roads you will meet old mills of different buildings.

   

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  THE BURGUNDIAN BRESSE ROAD

The burgundian Bresse road invites you to discover all the architectural, gastronomic, cultural and ethnological wealth of this region.
Along this tour, the typical Bresse houses with their bricks and timber walls, the castles of different architectures, the churches, the mills, the tilery, the hamlets make up essential stops.
The roads will allow you to visit prestigious sites and carry you away to the Bresse poultry breeders, growers and handicraftsmen.

   

 
  TOWNS AND VILLAGES

Towns and villages of Bresse will charm you with their diversity and you will be warmly welcome all along your trip.

   

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