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Favoured by the kings of France, this region remains the home of the country's most beautiful buildings. Its architectural wealth began with the monks in the 10th and 11th centuries when the Benedictines built the abbey at Cluny, which is only equaled by the Cistercian abbey in the valley of Absinthe. From the most gaunt abbey hidden in the hollow at Favigny-sur-Ozerain to the gem of Cluny, the visitor will discover a panorama of Romanesque art that shows the range of curves and vaults, sober naves and eloquent stained-glass developed during this period. From here anything is possible. You could climb the rock of Vézelay to explore the cloister of Sainte-Madeleine with its pink and ochre basilica, one of the best examples of Romanesque art; or head south in the direction of Cluny, the second Rome, where you can follow the footsteps of Richelieu and Mazarin, both of whom were abbots here; or you could go on to Fontenay founded by the Cîteaux movement, which was pillaged many a time but which has been restored to its noble elegance by the current occupants. Then there is also the Saint-Germain caves at Auxerre, the collegiate Notre-Dame of Beaune, the Sainte-Begigne cathedral at Dijon and a whole host of other rural churches lost in the rugged countryside of Morvan and Auxois.