Regional feature Saône et loire
In each issue, we’ll feature an area. In this edition, the focus is Saône-et-Loire (département 71), located within the southern part of Burgundy. The department is named after the two important rivers that flow through it. The Saône that traverses the south and the mightly La Loire, one of the five great rivers of France (Les grandes fleuves), which flows to the north-west.