Secrets

The Alchemical Mansion. On the national 6, between Auxerre and Avallon en route to our guest rooms, the motorist going south crosses the small town of Arcy-sur-Cure. A hamlet, the Val Sainte-Marie slightly dominates the village.

This is where you will find the Manoir du Chastenay, formerly known as Château du Lys. Located at the junction of the Roman ...

Our charming guest rooms in Burgundy; on the road to Saint Fargeau.

This story could be the plot of a historical novel. Yet this enigma is very real. At the castle of Saint Fargeau, a painting of the painter David would be hidden in the walls of the building. The painting depicts the assassination of Louis-Michel Lepeletier, Marquis de Saint Fargeau. A work estimated at several million Euros.

Excavations were made to try to find this masterpiece but without ...

Make boats cross the hills…

The ingenious water staircase of Rogny-the-Seven-Locks is located not far from our accommodations in Burgundy.

In their vast project of linking sea and the ocean. Henri IV and Sully, in 1597, express the wish to create a channel between the Loire, then navigable, and the Seine. But they still needed to overcome the significant drop of 45 meters on the ...

The sarcophagi cemetery of Quarré-les-Tombes is located near our farm house in Burgundy.

Fans of mysteries and archaeologists are familiar with this Morvan village. All along Saint Georges church is a curious cemetery. No tombstone but 49 empty coffins with their Burgundy -Champagne-type covers for most, that probably can be dated to the Merovingian and whose origin is still enigmatic.

Local tradition evokes the presence of nearly 2,000 sarcophagi but their ...

The eternal hill near our holiday guests accommodation in Burgundy.

Nicknamed the Mont Saint Michel of Burgundy or the eternal hill. Vezelay is the start or the essential step on the road to Compostela.

False or true relics of Mary Magdalena. In 1267 a solemn authentication of relics owned by the abbey was made in the presence of the king to revive the pilgrimage. ...

Located near our restored farm guesthouse in Burgundy. La Fosse-Dionne, the pit and the wash-house that surrounds it is one of the most beautiful sites of Tonnerre.

Take the opportunity of a stay at our farm guest rooms to visit the wash-house. The source that supplies the water, regarded as divine, has continually intrigued by the unknown origin of his deep blue water and its depth. Several followers of caving wanted to solve the mystery; unfortunately most expeditions ended in tragedy.

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Just north of the Morvan Park near Carpe Diem, our holiday guest accommodation in Burgundy, is located Avallon, a very old city with a unique history, thanks to largely preserved fortifications.

A nice town a few kilometers from our Guests House: Avallon

The Clock Tower

It served only to tell the time?

At the highest point of the city rises a tower 49 meters high. Built in the fifteenth century to the end of ...

Pierre-qui-Vire Abbey is close to our country house in Burgundy. Its reputation also comes from its stone to legend. The stone that moves, who had the power to turn every year at midnight to reveal a fabulous treasure.

This famous abbey that houses a large library, and will publish in 1951 the Zodiac collection whose quality remains a benchmark in the field of Christian art.

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Alise-Sainte-Reine is  not far from our holiday house in Burgundy.

The miraculous water of saint Reine owes its reputation to saint Reine. Its miraculous fountain whose waters were sold in the 18th century by thousands of bottles in Paris.

Their relics, chapel and mainly the miraculous spring, attracted countless pilgrims and for the inhabitants a source (miraculous) for souvenir sales. Especially rosaries made with bones.

Now the water is not sold ...