The Jura in 4 days

A path climbs beside the river from the Maison des Cascades past 31 falls, including the 65-metre Éventail and the 60-metre Grand Saut.

A short climb to a 993-metre summit over the lakes plateau, with the Alps on clear days, then a ridge viewpoint over four glacial lakes.

The Jura department's largest natural lake, 232 hectares of turquoise water where Neolithic lake villages were excavated; a reconstructed stilt house stands near Doucier beach.

A cliff-ringed village around a Benedictine abbey whose monks went on to found Cluny, with a 16th-century Flemish altarpiece in the church.

A clifftop village, home of the Jura's yellow wine, aged over six years under a veil of yeast and sold in a 62 cl bottle.

Comté is France's biggest PDO cheese by volume, and this museum, redesigned in 2021, follows it from Montbéliarde cows to village dairies and ageing cellars.

The house by the Cuisance where Pasteur grew up and spent his summers, with its furniture and the laboratory where he studied wine fermentation.

A 19th-century fortress above 1,100 metres, now ageing tens of thousands of Comté wheels in vaulted galleries; the guided tour ends with a tasting.