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Yonne is a department in central France, one of the eight constituent departments of the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. To the northeast lies the department of Aube, to the east lies Côte-d'Or, to the south lies Nièvre, to the west lies Loiret and to the northwest, the department of Seine-et-Marne.
The Yonne (French: ⓘ) is a river in France, a left-bank tributary of the Seine. It is 292 km (181 mi) long. [1] The river gives its name to the Yonne département. It rises in the Nièvre département, in the Morvan hills near Château-Chinon. It flows into the river Seine at Montereau-Fault-Yonne.
L' Yonne (/jɔn/ Note 1) est un département français. Il est traversé, du sud vers le nord, par la rivière qui lui a donné son nom, l' Yonne, affluent de la Seine, qui la rejoint à Montereau-Fault-Yonne (Seine-et-Marne). L' Insee et La Poste lui attribuent le code 89. L'Yonne compte 333 385 habitants au 1er janvier 2021.
Yonne travel guide and tourist information, with reviews and places to visit, attractions, castles and historic towns in the Yonne department of Burgundy, France.
Yonne is a department in the centre of France, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. The largest city in the department, and its prefecture (capital), is Auxerre. The department is named after the Yonne river, a tributary of the Seine, that flows through the department.
Yonne is the first taste of the countryside when you leave Paris, beginning with the Puisaye, a wonderful area and a favourite with a certain Colette and fans of the Middle Ages.
Nov 18, 2003 · Yonne is rural France writ large, to the extent that more of its 400,000 inhabitants live in villages and hamlets than in large towns. To acknowledge this, and to get a real feel for country life in these parts, you should really leave Auxerre behind and head due east for nearby Chablis.
The Yonne département, roughly midway between Dijon and Paris, has long been Burgundy's northern gateway. The verdant countryside harbours the magical hilltop village of Vézelay (a Unesco World Heritage site), the white-wine powerhouse Chablis, and the picturesque medieval town of Noyers-sur-Serein, along with off-the-beaten-track treasures ...
For your holidays in Yonne with family or friends, enjoy a department between nature and discovery of a rich heritage.
Discover the best attractions in Yonne including Basilique Ste-Madeleine, Abbaye de Pontigny, and Abbaye St-Germain.
