Top Reasons to Go

Sip your way through Burgundy vineyards: They are among the world's best, so take the time to stroll through Clos de Vougeot and really get a feel for the "terroir."

Discover Dijon: One of France's prettiest cities, with colorful banners and polished storefronts along narrow medieval streets, Dijon is perpetually being dolled up for a street fair.

Relish the Romanesque: Burgundy is home to a knee-weakening concentration of Romanesque churches, and Vézelay's Basilique has the region's greatest 12th-century sculptures.

Get your cultural and viticultural fix in Beaune: The "Capital of Caves" is famed for its wine caves and its 15th-century Flemish-style Hospices.

Be inspired by Cluny, "Light of the World": Previously the center of a vast Christian empire and today a ruin, the sheer volume of this Romanesque abbey still impresses.