On the Paris-Sens-Dijon train route,
TONNERRE
is a useful, though not that inspiring, starting point for exploring this corner of the region. A run-down little town that has clearly not enjoyed the same prosperity as its neighbour Chablis, it has as its principal sight the vast and well-conserved medieval hospital, the
Hôtel-Dieu
(hourly guided tours: June-Sept daily except Tues 10am-noon & 1-7pm; April, May & Oct Sat, Sun & hols only 1-6pm; 23F... [More]
Welcome in the Yonne: this is Burgundy at the doorsteps of Paris, with its small valleys and plains, its vineyards of Chablis and Epineuil; the Renaissance castles of Tanlay and Ancy le Franc; the old cities of Auxerre and Avallon as well as the medieval townlet of Noyers sur Serein, the Abbeys of P... [More]