Hiking guide - Jura, Franche County - Vosges at Lake Geneva | Rother (French)

Jura Hiking guide and Franche - Comté - Vosges at Lake Geneva edited by Rother. Summary and example - type in photo.

160 pages with 123 color photos, 50 Hiking maps at 1:25 000 - 1:75 000 as well as 50 altitude profiles and two synoptic maps.

The Rother guide describes 50 hikes clean to satisfy all tastes: classical destinations like the waterfalls of the hedgehog and the circus of Baume - les - gentlemen, solitary paths through the plateau with the ponds of Ebrochy or still hikes short and simple but also long and difficult.

Jura is one of the most varied and diverse regions of France: wild gorges with tumultuous rivers, magnificent panoramic peak peaks, immense shady forests and gravel flower pastures await hiker here. Typical dolines of the region and interesting stalagmitic and stalactic caves as well as impressive horse - shaped circuses lined with vertical cliffs on which mowing waterfalls have been formed in this karst landscape. The many bodies of water - especially on the "plateau of thousand ponds" - invite to swim in summer. Marais, intact peatlands as well as powerful karst sources that spring directly from rocky caves are one of the peculiarities of this region. All interested in culture will also find their account here: pretty villages and small medieval towns, churches and chapels but also castles and fortresses line the itinerary - Finally, a walk through Besançon gives Visitors The opportunity to visit the many attractions as well as the citadel built by Marshal Vauban away above the city.