Saône-et-Loire

Saône-et-Loire is a department in . Tourism in this region is founded on its varied landscape, its gastronomy with the prestigious Mâconnais wines, the charolais beef, the poulet de Bresse, and its rich architectural sites.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Mâcon and Chalon-sur-Saône.

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is a city with a population of 36,000 in the Saône-et-Loire department in in .

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is a town in Saône-et-Loire. It is the largest city in the department and was a hub of road and river transport already as a Roman city.

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is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of central-eastern . It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had as their political centre.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Cluny and Paray-le-Monial.

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is a picturesque medieval town in Saône-et-Loire in the region, renowned for its extraordinary Benedictine Abbey. boasts charming Romanesque houses, a 15th-century Museum of Art and Archaeology, the historic Hôtel-Dieu, and the Tour des Fromages, offering panoramic views of the area.

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is a little town in the Saône-et-Loire department in in . It is the sister city of , and , .

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The , in the village of Taizé, is an ecumenical monastic community and destination of pilgrimage in the Saône-et-Loire department in , especially by people under the age of 35.

Saône-et-Loire

Latitude of center
46.6365° or 46° 38′ 11″ north
Longitude of center
4.5882° or 4° 35′ 18″ east
Population
549,000
Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2976082
Wiki­data ID
Q12736
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Saône-et-Loire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Albanian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Arabic: “سون ولوار”
  • Aragonese: “Saona y Loira”
  • Armenian: “Սոն է Լուար”
  • Armenian: “Սոն-է-Լուար”
  • Arpitan: “Sona-et-Lêre”
  • Asturian: “Saona y Loira”
  • Asturian: “Saone-et-Loire”
  • Asturian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sona və Luara”
  • Basque: “Saona eta Loira”
  • Bavarian: “Département Saône-et-Loire”
  • Belarusian: “дэпартамент Сона і Луара”
  • Belarusian: “Сона і Луара”
  • Belarusian: “Сона і Люара”
  • Bengali: “সোনে ইট লরি”
  • Breton: “Saona-ha-Liger”
  • Breton: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Bulgarian: “Сон е Лоар”
  • Catalan: “Saona i Loira”
  • Cebuano: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Chechen: “Сона а, ЛуагӀа а”
  • Chechen: “Сона а”
  • Chinese: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Chinese: “桑恩盧華”
  • Chinese: “索恩-卢瓦尔省”
  • Chinese: “索恩-盧瓦爾省”
  • Chuvash: “Сона тата Луара”
  • Czech: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Dagbani: “Saone-et-Loire (4) Сона і Луара (3) سون ولوار”
  • Dagbani: “Saone-et-Loire”
  • Danish: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Dutch: “FR-71”
  • Dutch: “Saone-et-Loire”
  • Dutch: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Esperanto: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Estonian: “Saône-et-Loire’i departemang”
  • Finnish: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • French: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Galician: “Saona e Loira”
  • Georgian: “სონა და ლუარა”
  • German: “Département Saône-et-Loire”
  • German: “FR-71”
  • German: “Saone-et-Loire”
  • German: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Greek: “Σον-ε-Λουάρ”
  • Gujarati: “સાઓન-એટ-લોઈર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Saône-et-Loire-sén”
  • Hebrew: “סון ולואר”
  • Hindi: “साओन-एट-लोइर”
  • Hungarian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Indonesian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento de Saone-et-Loire”
  • Interlingua: “Departimento Saone-et-Loire”
  • Irish: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Italian: “Saona e Loira”
  • Japanese: “ソーヌ＝エ＝ロワール県”
  • Kannada: “ಸೌನೆ-ಎಟ್-ಲೋರೆ”
  • Kazakh: “Сона және Луара”
  • Kongo: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Korean: “손에루아르주”
  • Ladin: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Ladino: “Saône et Loire”
  • Latin: “Arar et Liger”
  • Latvian: “Sona un Luāra”
  • Limburgan: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Lithuanian: “Sona ir Luara”
  • Lombard: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Low German: “Département Saône-et-Loire”
  • Luxembourgish: “Departement Saône-et-Loire”
  • Macedonian: “Сона и Лоара”
  • Malagasy: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Malay: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Marathi: “सॉन-ए-लावार”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Northern Frisian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Northern Sami: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Norwegian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sòna e Léger”
  • Ossetian: “Сонæ æмæ Луарæ”
  • Pampanga: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Persian: “سئونه لوآر”
  • Persian: “سائون-ا-لوآر”
  • Persian: “سون-ا-لوآر”
  • Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd Saône e Lòira”
  • Piemontese: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Polish: “Saona i Loara”
  • Portuguese: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Romanian: “departamentul Saône-et-Loire”
  • Romanian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Russian: “Сона и Луара”
  • Scots: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Serbian: “Саона и Лоара”
  • Serbian: “Сона и Лоара”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Sinhala: “සොනේ-එට්‌-ලොයිර්”
  • Slovak: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Slovenian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سون-ا-لوآر”
  • Spanish: “Saona y Loira”
  • Swahili: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Swedish: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Swiss German: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Сона ва Луара”
  • Tajik: “Департаменти Сона и Луара”
  • Tamil: “சேயோன்-எட் -லோயிரே”
  • Telugu: “సావన్-ఎట్-లోయర్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดโซเนลัวร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Département Saône-et-Loire”
  • Turkish: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Ukrainian: “Сона і Луара”
  • Urdu: “سون-اے-لوآر”
  • Uzbek: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Venetian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Vietnamese: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Welsh: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Western Frisian: “Saône-et-Loire”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع سئونہ لوآر”
  • Wu Chinese: “索恩-卢瓦尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “索恩盧瓦”

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