Port-Lesney
Jura · France
A small village on the banks of the Loue river in the Jura, Port-Lesney draws visitors with a five-star château hotel, a Michelin-starred restaurant, and a riverside beach. The statesman Edgar Faure and his wife served as the village's mayors for a combined forty years in the twentieth century. A bow-string bridge completed in 1940, the Notre-Dame de Lorette hermitage, and remnants of a historic salt pipeline are listed as historic monuments.
- Population493
- Nearest water from center0.1 km
- Nearest mountain from center5.6 km
- UNESCO within 50 km5