Haute-Saone: Le Corbusier's Chapel and Hidden Franche-Comte
Haute-Saone is a quietly beautiful department in the Franche-Comte region that few foreign visitors discover. Vesoul, the prefecture, is a small town overshadowed by the hill of La Motte. The department's main attraction is the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, designed by Le Corbusier in 1955 and widely considered one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century.
Luxeuil-les-Bains has thermal waters and an abbey founded by the Irish monk Saint Columban in 590. Gray, on the Saone river, has a Renaissance chateau. The population is about 234,000 and declining. Agriculture and small-scale industry form the economic base. The department offers affordable rural living within reach of Besancon and the TGV station at Belfort-Montbeliard.
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Haute-Saone is a quietly beautiful department in the Franche-Comte region that few foreign visitors discover. Vesoul, the prefecture, is a small town overshadowed by the hill of La Motte. The department's main attraction is the Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, designed by Le Corbusier in 1955 and widely considered one of the greatest buildings of the twentieth century.
Luxeuil-les-Bains has thermal waters and an abbey founded by the Irish monk Saint Columban in 590. Gray, on the Saone river, has a Renaissance chateau. The population is about 234,000 and declining. Agriculture and small-scale industry form the economic base. The department offers affordable rural living within reach of Besancon and the TGV station at Belfort-Montbeliard.
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