Category: events

Les P’tits Marchés brings local producers and designers together beneath Arinthod’s lime trees. Farmhouse catering and craft refreshment stalls provide food and drink alongside the market stalls. Free concerts and workshops form part of the wider programme, which also includes a guinguette gathering with music.

La Maison du Comté links its museum route with a workshop devoted to the meeting of Comté and Jura wines. Participants first explore the museum independently before moving into the cheese-and-wine tasting. The workshop is reserved for adults, and advance online booking is required for the combined museum visit and tasting session.

Jérôme Combeau, Head of Security, and Bruno François, Head of Collections, take visitors behind the scenes of the Hôtel-Dieu. Their visit-meeting explains how the Hospices Civils de Beaune protect the historic monument and its collections. Discussion with the two specialists explores their professional practices and the cultural-property safeguarding plan.

European Heritage Days at the Saline Royale follows the buildings where salt workers lived and worked, with guides introducing Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and his architecture. An archive-based photography retrospective traces changing views of the saltworks from Pointevin to Fessy. Family games and immersive projections extend the programme to other UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Véronique explores Nuits-Saint-Georges from the winegrower’s point of view on this Tourist Office guided visit. The route introduces the Climats de Bourgogne and the local appellation, linking the town’s history to its vineyards. Old winegrowers’ houses, traditional architecture and Burgundian follies show how that history appears in the streets.

The Balade Gourmande sur le Chemin des Cadeules follows vineyards and woods around Martailly-lès-Brancion, passing the dry-stone huts once used by winegrowers. Four tasting stops serve an appetiser, a hot dish, cheese and dessert from local producers. Winegrowers and other producers also offer their products for sale at the end of the walk.

Take part in a meeting at the Hôtel-Dieu, where enthusiasts share personal stories about this historical site. Witness how individual anecdotes contribute to the broader narrative of this iconic monument, once a hospital for the Dukes of Burgundy. Led by Vincent Clément, an expert in wine and literature, the programme highlights the connections between Burgundy’s rich literary, viticultural, and historical heritage. Scheduled for Sunday, 20 September at 2:15 PM, this 1.5-hour visit is open to all.

European Heritage Days opens the windmill at Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier for guided visits about its history and restoration. The programme explains the mechanism, millstone operation and the miller’s working life, alongside the miller’s house, washhouse and bread oven. Bakers make bread and pastries in the wood-fired oven on site, with local producers and craftspeople at a small market.

This wine discovery masterclass in Couchey focuses on Burgundy tasting technique at Clos de Bourgogne. The programme includes a vineyard walk on the Marsannay and Côte de Nuits terroirs, with context on grape varieties, soils, biodiversity and the role of winemakers. A sensory tasting of six to seven wines follows the vineyard visit.

At the Arc-et-Senans annex of the Fruitière Vinicole d’Arbois, Valérie leads a focused introduction to Jura wines. Her commentary explains how the selected bottles are made, giving the tasting a practical account of Jura winemaking alongside the bottles being sampled. Vin jaune and Macvin illustrate two distinctive Jura styles, while Comté adds a pairing rooted in the same agricultural landscape. The shop carries further wines as well as Comté and Morbier, allowing the session to extend into the area’s cheese traditions.