Yonne is the countryside. Discover its landscapes, rivers, towns and villages and take your time exploring its châteaux, museums and churches. Feel like a new person again, exercise by enjoying your favourite sport as often as possible. Savour Yonne, taste its products, with all the flavour of Burgundy, at markets or restaurants run by great chefs, sample wines right at the vintners'.

Local people are the ones who speak best about Yonne

Find out about the attachment that several people have to Yonne through their portraits in pictures, which attest to the department's riches.

• Folks from round here

The Yonne year-round

In Yonne, you'll feel like a new person by discovering the department's riches year round: the burgeoning of life in spring, the plenitude of summer, the plenty of autumn and the beauty of winter.

• 4 seasons

Yonne? The shortest distance between Burgundy and you!

Huge forests, fertile plains, hills with armloads of subtle fruits; granite, clay, limestone, ochre; springs, streams, rivers, canals, ponds… Welcome to a land of impressions, pleasures and personal renewal. Here, so close to Paris, the air is soft and caressing, nature magnificent, food delicious and accommodations friendly.

• Natural regions

Yonne, the art of living in Burgundy

Discover and taste Yonne: an outstanding heritage, museums with exceptional collections, excellent wines, famous gastronomy, starred chefs, authentic flavours and a thousand and one celebrations year round to spice up your weekends and holidays.

• Themes

Enjoy your journey!

Welcome to Yonne in Burgundy, just a short distance south of Paris!You'll discover a landscape with many faces, between hills, mounts, forests, vales, rivers and the local people, in love with nature, art and life. Feel like a new person in Yonne s by following its waterways, roads and trails. Breathe its fragrances, enjoy its colours.

• Sightseeing roads