France Jura

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

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