{"id":19841,"date":"2014-01-07T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/631-burgundy-canal-setting-a-course-for-the-renaissance-chateaux\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T21:00:57","slug":"631-burgundy-canal-setting-a-course-for-the-renaissance-chateaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/blog\/631-burgundy-canal-setting-a-course-for-the-renaissance-chateaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Burgundy Canal : Setting a course for the Renaissance chateaux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spending your\u00a0<strong>holidays in a self-drive boat<\/strong>\u00a0(no licence required) is a different way to explore the history and heritage of a region. If you set off from\u00a0<a title=\"Cruises starting from Joigny or Montbard\" href=\"\/en\/boating-holidays\/france\/burgundy-nivernais\/joigny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joigny<\/a>, the cruise offered by\u00a0<strong>Locaboat<\/strong>\u00a0will enable you to discover two wonderful ch\u00e2teaux that stand on the banks of the\u00a0<strong>Burgundy Canal<\/strong>. Just step aboard and go with the flow of the water and of history&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Burgundy is a land of vineyards but also a land of culture. In the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance period, the dukes of Burgundy were so powerful that their lands extended all the way to the frontiers of Flanders and Artois. There are relics of this wealth of history: many ch\u00e2teaux, little manor houses or sumptuous residences, either hidden away in the landscape or standing proudly in the centres of the towns. If you up anchor in Montbard or Joigny, your\u00a0<strong>canal boat<\/strong>\u00a0cruise will take you to two sumptuous ch\u00e2teaux that are listed as national historic monuments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first, Tanlay, in the Department of Yonne, is like a mini-Chambord standing by a lake in the midst of wooded grounds. It was built in the 16th and 17th centuries and was owned, first by Admiral de Coligny during the Wars of Religion and then later by a friend of Cardinal Mazarin. Its ceremonial gallery is painted in trompe-l\u2019\u0153il, whilst the frescoes in the Tour de la Ligue (Tower of the Huguenot League), in a Pompeian style depict important personages at the court of France. One of the delights of this\u00a0<strong>canal cruise<\/strong>\u00a0: is to tie up and then go by bike or even on foot to one of the sites, since they are so close to the\u00a0<strong>Burgundy Canal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ancy-le-Franc, that other jewel of the Renaissance, is actually hemmed in on all sides by water. This majestic ch\u00e2teau, built in the 16th century by an Italian architect, Sebastiano Serlio, is in itself a journey into a\u00a0<strong>Burgundy<\/strong>\u00a0that looks like a green version of Tuscany. Its walls are decorated with remarkable frescoes and paintings and it contains works by major Italian, Flemish and Burgundy artists of the 16th and 17th centuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you set off from\u00a0Joigny, the cruise offered by\u00a0Locaboat\u00a0will enable you to discover two wonderful ch\u00e2teaux that stand on the banks of the\u00a0Burgundy Canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[420,205,359],"class_list":["post-19841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bucket-list","tag-bni","tag-burgundy","tag-joigny"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19842,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions\/19842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}