The Top 10 Hotels Near Canons et Compagnie
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A 19th-century cloister in the old heart of Besançon, converted into a boutique hotel with just enough monastic bones left to feel like somewhere, not just somewhere nice. The name means "wild," which the nuns who preceded the guests would find baffling given the spa. Rooms look out over the citadel and the river, and there's a restaurant downstairs for the nights you'd rather not wander far.
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A 17th-century mansion in Arbois that its owners run as a five-room chambre d'hôtes, keeping enough of the private-home feel that you half expect someone's grandmother to appear with a key. Rooms draw on the town's natural surroundings for their decorative theme, antique in spirit but pulled together with boutique-hotel coherence. The owners are well-connected in Jura wine circles, which tends to make itself known in useful ways.
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A two-room bed and breakfast on the top floor of a building that's been around forever, in a mountain town that produces a remarkable share of France's pastis and absinthe. One room leans historical, the other contemporary, both decorated with an eclecticism that stops just short of chaos. It's a genuinely small operation, so if both rooms are booked, that's it. Pontarlier sits midway between Basel and Geneva, which helps explain the clientele.
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A 17th-century Jura farmhouse that behaves nothing like one inside, Maison Zugno is a small country hotel where the owners have layered bold contemporary furniture and color against old stone and period bones. The standout room is L'Observatoire, a cylindrical freestanding suite with a curved picture window wrapping the bedroom. A small spa, outdoor pool, and jacuzzi round things out for anyone who came here specifically to do nothing.
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A château that has been standing since the 1400s, just outside Dijon, with exposed stone walls, pale oak bed frames, and patterned rugs that lean more country house than formal hotel. The 42 rooms look out over a pool, a park, two rivers, or kitchen gardens, depending on which one you get. The restaurant leans on Burgundy's larder, which in this part of France is not a modest claim.