Discovering Saulieu

After breakfast we headed out for a stroll around the little town of Saulieu. It’s really not that big, but has some interesting old streets and buildings to explore.

I just love the old fashioned painted signs on the fronts of buildings, now looking faded but still serving their purpose.

At the main church, just behind the high street, we couldn’t resist taking up the invite to ‘Turn the handle and push the door hard’. Inside it was cool, but surprisingly lively, with traditional church music playing from the organ. It sounded magnificent. We soon realised it was a very special organ, and quite stunning.

We wandered around the pews enjoying looking up at the intricately carved stone capitals, pointing out the quirky characters, some looking very cheeky.

Next to the church it was hard not to miss the Pompon museum. He had been born in Saulieu, which we hadn’t been aware of, and they have a lovely little museum of his works, and some of his contemporaries. I’ll feature more on this later.