Courotte.
Courotte is a beautiful and quiet hamlet to enable you to relax and wind down from all of the stresses in life, but it is close enough to larger towns for shopping and sightseeing. Courotte is a typical French hamlet and you will find as you explore the small Burgundy farms you will feel as though you have stepped back in time.

Marigny L'Eglise.
Marigny L'Eglise is a small town with restaurant and bar which are run by your hosts and serve excellent food, plus an epicerie for your fresh bread and other supplies and you will find that lots of the fresh produce is sourced locally and can be cheaper than the supermarkets.

Quarré-les-Tombes.
Quarré-les-Tombes, gets its name from a ring of prehistoric burial stones that circle  the Saint Georges Church and are occupied, so the story goes, by the ghosts of fallen Gauls.
The area has seen continuous habitation since the dawn of time. People from every stage of human development – from Cro Magnon to Homo Sapiens - have lived in the valley of the Cure.

Avallon.
The walled, hilltop town of Avallon overlooks the River Cousin and the Parc Naturel Régional du Morvan to the south. The sleepy, cobbled town is enlivened by the Saturday morning market.
Avallon is also a gateway town to The Morvan which is a wild, mountainous granite lakeland in the heart of Burgundy. In Roman times Avallon and the surrounding area was a known summer resort for wealthy Romans and their families. The countryside is verdant and fertile, with cherry and apple orchards in the valleys, and vineyards on the chalky escarpment.
The Église St-Lazare has a Romanesque façade carved with the signs of the zodiac and musicians of the Apocalypse. It was completed in the 12th century and then needed to be extended because too many pilgrims were coming to witness the fragment of Saint Lazare's skull, which is said to fend off leprosy. At the bottom of the road from the church is the Promenade de la Petite Porte with good views over the Cousin valley.