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Discriminate your ideas about Franche-Comte! DISCOVER ITS COLOURS PRESS FILE 2016 Discriminate your ideas Pink sandstone 2 Green out for a ride 4 about Franche-Comté! From Sepia to Ultraviolet 7 FIFTY SHADES OF GREY 10 Do you imagine it in blue and green? You are right. The lakes, the rivers, the forests and the fi elds colour the palette of 13 Franche-Comte with intensity. Personalities from Franche-Comte...without frills But it also is a lot more extravagant and colourful than that ... 16 Discover cities built in pink sandstone and the sepia charm of fantastic The 5 colours of the route legends. You will be touched by the tender pastel colours of your childhood Savours and colours 18 dreams and amazed by know-how with futuristic detail. You will be dazzled by the white of its reliefs, and the more confi dential shine of white gold extracted from the depths of the earth. Nocturnal blues & moon colours 23 From purple to gold, from amber to absinth gold, everywhere, enjoy its 26 delights. The White Finally, surrender to all the shades of grey revealed by the unsettling 31 silhouettes and curves of its mythical monuments. water blue press contact Childhood pastel colours 34 » Marie-Hélène Vernerey 36 REGIONAL TOURIST BOARD - FRANCHE-COMTÉ Feesten, evenementen en festivals La City, 4 rue Gabriel Plançon - 25044 Besançon Cedex - FRANCE Tel. +33 (0)3 81 25 08 08 [email protected] PRESS SECTION: www.en.franche-comte.org 1 Luxeuil-les-Bains sees life through pink-tinted glasses Pink like the sandstone of its facades and monuments of the spa town that you discover with the family while having fun on this heritage route 2.0: armed with a tablet or a smartphone, stroll through the city with 12 mini-games and 1 enigma to solve. A cultural and fun trip of approx. 2 h. Free game download from Apple Store and Google Play. Tablets available for hire from the Tourist Information Centre 5€. But the pink town also flaunts its Renaissance charm and mineral volutes to seduce lovers. Declare your undying love at the top of the Tour des Echevins [Tower of the Aldermen], spend the night in a 3 star hotel and enjoy access to the spa to get pampered: this is the romantic stay "Rose Princesse" [pink princess] that the Tourist Information Centre proposes. Different direction: from the status of lover to nature lover! At a few kilometres of Luxueil, at the foot of the Vosges mountain range, we put on our hiking shoes to discover forests, fi elds and orchards of the region called Voge. At Fougerolles, between forests and brooks, the red stone path unveils impressive sandstone cliffs. But there is more pink here: in the cherries of the region of Fougerolles. From the Eco Cherry museum via countless orchards, package and a la carte trips and hiking Pink sandstone circuits. > www.luxeuil.fr > www.otsi-fougerolles.net From pale gold to violet, the mineral heritage of the North of Franche-Comté has been colouring the landscape for 200 million years. As a natural rock, pink sandstone on the facades, monuments and roads today provides us with its most beautiful escapes: high tech, sporty, romantic or cultural, from Belfort to Luxeuil-les-Bains and the Plateau des Mille Etangs. 2 Listen • Music & Memory: pink sandstone as a Baroque theatre Every summer, for the past 23 years already, Baroque music is especially highlighted in the churches, chapels and on pop-up stages in the Region of the Thousand Lakes : this is the festival Musique & Mémoire, in Haute-Saône. From 15 to 31 July 2016, it welcomes the following musical ensembles: Les Timbres, Les Cyclopes and Allias Mens. > www.musetmemoire.com Belfort turns your cheeks pink Belfort can be explored on a bicycle, nose in the wind. The City of the After all that effort and to recover from your emotions, set off to the Lion was granted the label "Cyclo-tourism City and Region" for the quality industrial district of Belfort for a break at « Au petit répit d’Isana ». A of its animation, welcome, services and equipment adapted to cycling. magical location for ... a nap! Located next to Switzerland, Belfort is connected to the Suissemobile Because it is not reserved to children or old age pensioners, because network (3000 km) with the francovelosuisse, and to Eurovelo6; a its benefits are unanimously recognised, we take a rest of 15, 30 or 60 delight for great travellers. In the north of the Region, athletes can ride minutes in this siesta bar. A unique concept in the region, where you the legendary mountain passes from the Tour de France to the Ballon will find a garden, lounges with a cosy atmosphere, deckchairs and d'Alsace and the Planche des Belles-Filles. Returning to the base of the waterbeds, a kitchen corner, a bar serving fruits juices and smoothies lion of Bartholdi for a stroll through the alleys of the Old Town. A walk with anti-stress, soothing or tonic properties. It is here, unashamedly, tinted by pink sandstone, like the Saint Christophe cathedral and the that you DE-STRESS and see life through pink-tinted glasses again! Place d'Armes, the heart of this pretty area. With the family, we stay in > www.aurepitdisana.com the saddle on the way to the nautical base of Malsaucy or to ride on one > www.belfort-tourisme.com of the numerous cycling paths of the Belfort region. Even more pink cheeks when entering the citadel... With the family, and armed with an audio guide, the adventure can start. Stealthily advancing in the large underground passage, we are propelled in the time and history of Belfort. Following the enigma and games, and with the help of Max, the peregrine falcon, we encounter Vauban, the architect of Louis XVI, D’Artagnan, Princess Catherine of Bourgogne or colonel Denfert- Rochereau, under the attentive gaze of the lion. Thrilling! 3 Green out for a ride It undoubtedly is one of the favourite colours in Franche-Comté! Green. Nature, plants, chlorophyll, oxygen and even hope or lucky charm: it is all this and more and provides the vital and precious force of our region. Besides the great routes like the Grandes Traversées du Jura (GTJ) or the paths of Petites et Grandes Randonnées (PR et GR) that criss-cross the region, other green dots accentuate Franche-Comté in 2016. Discoveries. 4 Ride around Feel like a little cycling trip in Besançon? Some fi fteen routes sneak into the Doubs valley around the river and on the cycling itinerary Eurovelo6. Half-day or day circuits can be downloaded from the Grand Besançon website. > www.grandbesancon.fr/rando Cycling: welcome in Haute-Saône Haute-Saône, a cycling land. A reality. And not only for yellow, green or dotted tricot wearers and supporters of the Tour de France. All the cyclo-tourists are pampered here with the creation of the Velo Bien- venue label that distinguishes accommodation, tourist sites, tourist information centres and cycle hire points. > www.balade-haute-saone.fr To travel The cow shepherd has his path • Drugeon & Dragon Agro-pastoralism is one of the major architects of the Jura mountain The Path of the Diots du Jura range. Landscape of pre-forests, dry stone walls, biodiversity are At the Rivière-Drugeon, this path designed like the work of Mother nature but of shepherds too. A heritage that this The Path of the Diots du Jura is a family hike of 11 km, with 12 a treasure hunt is a thrilling adventure for the interpretation path of 5.5 km and 13 milestones proposes to travel, milestones, to understand everything about the landscape, nature and whole family. Looking for the fi bula with the see and understand, starting from Chantegrue. gastronomy heritage of the region. At Septmoncel, at the locality Les two dragons, the village remembers its past as > www.cpiehautdoubs.org Clavières. After the name of the butcher who inspired this path! a powerful lordship and was the birthplace of > www.septmoncel.fr Reverend Father Clement in 1829, the inventor of.. the clementine! > www.frasnedrugeon-cfd.fr 5 To test • Ludy Park in Morbier Pump Track, 4 cross, trial or jump : jump on your mountain bike, get started and have a blast! Ideal for beginners or for improving personal skills, the Ludy Park, initially designed for 5-16 year-olds, is also open to adults. A good training ground before tackling the more demanding track of the Bike Park of Longchaumois. > www.haut-jura.com • Accro viaduc: warning strong thrills ! At Villards d’Héria, the viaduct provides (very) strong sensations in full safety. 72 metres Hikes, waterfalls and high, 200 metres of zip lines and secure circuits make the accro-viaduct accessible to know-how the whole family. Near Saint-Claude, nature and know-how inspire new hiking circuits. > www.accropont.com In the Tacon valley, you walk in the footsteps of Ulysse Dalloz, a miller in the village of Bouchoux. From the Waterfall of the Aval Mill, the 2h30 hike opens onto breath-taking panoramas and tells us the life of an old mountain village. After rural life, we zoom in on the craftsmen; hikes of 2,3,4 or 5 days propose a sporty approach of the typical know-how of the Haut-Jura. From one farm to the next, you walk in splendid surroundings and you gain a better understanding of the life of the local people. Farmers in summer, they cut wood, horn or precious stones for the entrepreneurs of the Saint Claude valley and neighbouring Switzerland during the long winter months.