Driving from Nice to Besancon, France
Dec 7th, 2013, 09:04 PM
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Driving from Nice to Besancon, France
Hi,
I plan to drive from Nice France to Besancon to attend the wedding. I have a week for this road trip in April. Can you please suggest the good way to go? I want to have a scenaric drive with perhaps 2-3 towns/cities to explore. At the moment, I think of driving through Grenoble, Annecy, Geneva.... I have been to Provence before so don't think I will stop there.
Hope to hear from you.
Thanks.
I plan to drive from Nice France to Besancon to attend the wedding. I have a week for this road trip in April. Can you please suggest the good way to go? I want to have a scenaric drive with perhaps 2-3 towns/cities to explore. At the moment, I think of driving through Grenoble, Annecy, Geneva.... I have been to Provence before so don't think I will stop there.
Hope to hear from you.
Thanks.
Dec 8th, 2013, 12:06 AM
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Consider the route Napoleon and then driving through the Jura, visiting places like Burg-en-Bresse, Beaume-les-Messieurs, and Arc-et-Senans.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...th/4860711145/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...th/4860711145/
Dec 8th, 2013, 02:16 AM
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...or drive through the Alps:
Nice - Breil sur Roya (fortress) - San Dalmazzo di Tenda - Tenda road tunnel - Limone Piemonte - Cuneo - Turin (tons of castles, palaces and outstanding museums) - Ivrea - Bard Fortress (alpine culture museum, exhibiton of masterpieces of Montserrat Abbey: paintings of Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Monet, Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Dali...) - Aosta Valley castles - Aosta (charming medieval town in the middle of the Alps with romano-celtic museum, roman theatre and other roman buildings) - Gd St Bernard road tunnel - Martigny (roman theatre, Fondation Gianadda: exhibition of antique Greek statues (in collaboration with the British Museum), Leonardo da Vinci exhibtion, gallo-roman museum, smalll Marc Chagall exhibition) - Chillon castle - Lavaux - vineyards (Unesco site) - Lausanne (Olympic Museum, medieval cathedral, historic steamboats plying Lake Geneva) - Orbe (small medieval town, roman villa with mosaics) - Romainmotier monastery - Vallorbe (caves, local iron and railway museum) - Auberson (museum of 18th/19th centuries music boxes, automata, clocks, singing birds, animated pictures and gramophones) - Pontarlier (fortress) - Ornans (Courbet Museum) - Besancon.
Nice - Breil sur Roya (fortress) - San Dalmazzo di Tenda - Tenda road tunnel - Limone Piemonte - Cuneo - Turin (tons of castles, palaces and outstanding museums) - Ivrea - Bard Fortress (alpine culture museum, exhibiton of masterpieces of Montserrat Abbey: paintings of Caravaggio, Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Monet, Chagall, Braque, Picasso, Dali...) - Aosta Valley castles - Aosta (charming medieval town in the middle of the Alps with romano-celtic museum, roman theatre and other roman buildings) - Gd St Bernard road tunnel - Martigny (roman theatre, Fondation Gianadda: exhibition of antique Greek statues (in collaboration with the British Museum), Leonardo da Vinci exhibtion, gallo-roman museum, smalll Marc Chagall exhibition) - Chillon castle - Lavaux - vineyards (Unesco site) - Lausanne (Olympic Museum, medieval cathedral, historic steamboats plying Lake Geneva) - Orbe (small medieval town, roman villa with mosaics) - Romainmotier monastery - Vallorbe (caves, local iron and railway museum) - Auberson (museum of 18th/19th centuries music boxes, automata, clocks, singing birds, animated pictures and gramophones) - Pontarlier (fortress) - Ornans (Courbet Museum) - Besancon.
Dec 8th, 2013, 06:45 AM
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What will the Alps be like in April????
I would follow (somewhat closely) the Route des Grande Alpes - Embrun, Barcelonnette, St Veran, Briancon, Annecy - skip Geneva. We did this about 7 years ago, staying overnight in Embrun, Briancon, Bonneval sur Arc (I would not go there - too big a chance of snow), Annecy, and finally Besancon. Since then we've styed in Embrun in a gite and same with Briancon & 2 weeks in Annecy & 3 weeks in the Franche Compte.
If you wanted to stay away from the snow, I would head north along the Rhone & stay in Sisteron (not that great - but a convenient stop), Lyon 2 nights, and then Dijon. We're not big fans of the Rhone between Montelimir and Lyon.
Stu Dudley
I would follow (somewhat closely) the Route des Grande Alpes - Embrun, Barcelonnette, St Veran, Briancon, Annecy - skip Geneva. We did this about 7 years ago, staying overnight in Embrun, Briancon, Bonneval sur Arc (I would not go there - too big a chance of snow), Annecy, and finally Besancon. Since then we've styed in Embrun in a gite and same with Briancon & 2 weeks in Annecy & 3 weeks in the Franche Compte.
If you wanted to stay away from the snow, I would head north along the Rhone & stay in Sisteron (not that great - but a convenient stop), Lyon 2 nights, and then Dijon. We're not big fans of the Rhone between Montelimir and Lyon.
Stu Dudley
Dec 9th, 2013, 08:29 PM
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Not sure how helpful this will end up being - the other suggestions sound great. But maybe take a look here:
http://www.wanderant.com/trips/j8k7K1_9OWBV96Jd7Tfl5g
http://www.wanderant.com/trips/j8k7K1_9OWBV96Jd7Tfl5g
