The best road cycling routes around Neuvy-Sautour

Excellent restaurant open on Sundays!

Nestled in a green setting, the Saint-Joseph des Anges chapel is a small, discreet building with sober architecture.

Place to discover the craft of stained glass, housed in the former Ervy-le-Châtel prison built in 1833. The exhibition spaces and fun-educational workshops allow you to understand all the stages of stained glass creation. Screening of films on the profession of master glassmaker and on the churches of the Pays d'Armance. The Maison du Vitrail d'Armance offers to discover the emblematic places of Ervy-le-Châtel thanks to a visit on a digital tablet. Three existing versions: adults, children and in English. The tablets can be rented freely during the opening hours of the Maison du stained glass (1€ for the rental of a tablet).

Built between 1864 and 1891, this immense chapel topped with a colossal statue of the Holy Virgin can be seen from afar. To the left of the tower, more modest, a pretty Calvary is also visible. Father Cardot, the priest of the village of Villeneuve-au-Chemin, was the initiator and mastermind of this pharaonic project. His grave is located behind the Calvary.

The Burgundy Canal is 242 km long, it connects the Seine basin to the Rhône basin. Previously used for moving goods, but since the 1960s the canal has been used almost exclusively for recreational boating.

Hamlet on the Burgundy Canal. The Château de Percey was built in the 17th century and inhabited by a countess; it was bought in September 2021 and transformed into a gîte.

Church classified as historic monuments, nestled in the center of a pretty village, next to the town hall on the main street where the local shops are also located.

Cistercian monks settled here in 1114, in this valley near the Serein, where a forest reigned. They built a huge abbey: 4000m² on the ground, 120m long. Second daughter of Citeaux, Pontigny is thus the largest Cistercian abbey church in the world. The Revolution put an end to the presence of the monks and the church became parish in 1803. It was classified as a Historic Monument in 1840 in the first list drawn up by Prosper Mérimée, a sign of its heritage importance. Marked by the austere thought of Saint Bernard, the Cistercian church is deliberately devoid of images and colors. The search for spiritual perfection is reflected in an architecture in search of the essential, and which gives importance to the diffusion of natural light. Pontigny perfectly embodies this research. The abbey church marks the transition between Romanesque and Gothic. We can distinguish two construction campaigns with an older part of Romanesque style and a second part influenced by the Gothic style. The road enters the domain and arrives at the foot of the abbey. Above all, do not hesitate to cross the portal.