Avallon, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Approaching AVALLON along the N6 from the north, you wouldn't give the place a second look. But the southern aspect is altogether more promising, as the town stands high on a ridge above the wooded valley of the River Cousin, looking out over the hilly, sparsely populated country of the Morvan regional park. Once a staging post on the Romans' Via Agrippa from Lyon to Boulogne, it's a small and ancient town of stone facades and comatose cobbled streets, bisected north-south by the narrow Grande-Rue-Aristide-Briand . Under the straddling arch of the fifteenth-century Tour de l'Horloge , the spire … more »