Château-Chalon

Vin jaune from the slopes below Château-Chalon is reckoned the finest in the Jura and bears the village's name. The houses line a plateau edge: a sheer cliff drops to the Haute-Seille valley on the west, while vineyards slope gently away to the east. For over a millennium an abbey stood here, first for Benedictine nuns, then for canonesses of high noble birth, beside the stone-roofed church of Saint-Pierre.

Highlights

• Château-chalon AOC, the most celebrated vin jaune of the Jura
• Saint-Pierre church, early Romanesque and Gothic, with a stone-slab roof (FR)
• Remains of the 7th-century abbey: gateway, houses and a dovecote (FR)
• Ruins of the medieval castle, among the oldest in Franche-Comté
• The cliff-edge view over the Haute-Seille valley

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Château-Chalon (FR), Château-Chalon (EN), Château-Chalon (IT)), Wikivoyage (Château-Chalon). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.