| Page Views: 128 Last Visit to Franche-Comté: September, 2008 | Franche Comté by himalia11 - last update: Oct 19, 2008 |
| Me in Ornans, the Venice of Franche Comté |
|  | Franche Comté, which means "free county" and is called "Free county of Burgundy" in English, is a region in the east of France. It is bordered by Alsace to the North, Switzerland to the East & South-East, the Rhône-Alpes to the South and Burgundy to the West. It consists of the départments Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône und Territoire de Belfort.
Today, the capital of the region is Besançon, but until the late 17th century it had been Dole. Both are interesting towns worth a visit!
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Franche Comté is a pretty big region, with around 16000 square kilometer, so we did not manage to visit all areas. We first spent one week on a houseboat, travelling on the Saône River and the Rhine-Rhône-Canal. Rally great! You can read more on this trip in the travelogue on my Pontailler VT page.
Then we spent another week in a cottage between Besançon and Dole and did several excursion from there, visiting some towns and several natural sites. It's a very nice region, with charming towns, lots of rivers and waterfalls and great landscapes.
| | | With the housebout in Gray |
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| Source du Lison, near Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne |
| | Interestingly there were only few tourists and rarely foreigners. But the sights had been well signposted and the towns often had information plates at the most interesting buildings in French, English and German. And when there was a guided tour (which always was in French only) we always could get some slips of paper with information in German. I'm sure they have them in English also. So we usually had no language problem - only in restaurants it could be interesting to encrypt the menu!
Websites with information on the region:
www.franche-comte.org
www.jura-tourisme.com
www.doubs.com
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| Pros: | "Great landscape, lots of waterfalls, several caves, nice towns, ..." | | Cons: | "You'll have to spend a lot of time in your car to visit all!" |
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ranger49 Sun Oct 5, 2008 21:41 UTC
Yet another place to add to my list of places to visit. Must get a move on before I run out of time! Thanks for the informative pages and pictures. | hquittner Sun Oct 5, 2008 20:23 UTC
We wanted to Visit this region but never found time. It is certainly scenic, We passed through Belfort & Ronchamps returning from Alsace to Paris once but that is all. Nice pages! |
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