Port-Lesney

Port-Lesney is a common French, located in the department of the the Jura and the area Franche-Comté.

Geography

Situation

The village of Port-Lesney is located at the center of a triangle formed by Besancon, Dole and Lons-the-Salt maker, very near to the tourist sites to Arc-and-Senans and Saline-the-Baths. It is in addition along the Loue, just with the doors of the Val of Love, with the limit between the departments of the Doubs and the the Jura.

Transport

Port-Lesney is in the vicinity of the trunk road N83 which connects Besancon to Lons-the-Salt maker, a little front Mouchard while arriving from Besancon. The village is in addition very close to the station of Informer, located at the crossing of line TGV Paris - Lausanne (Lyria) and of the line Strasbourg - Lyon.

Economy and tourism

Many possibilities of lodging are available to Port-lesney: the camp-site/bases leisure " Radeliers" , two lodgings, several furnished in hiring, two hotels of which the Castle of Germigney, hotel 4 stars belonging to the network Relay and Castles. Detailed informations are available on the site of.

Other economic sectors are represented on the commune of Port-Lesney, with an activity primarily directed towards the trades of wood: EURL Marbois (wood trade), NATURALIM France Honey (honey conditioning and wholesale), (restoration of pieces of furniture), limited liability company ALD (construction of houses with framework wood and frames), joined together limited liability companies carpenter.

Places and monuments

The village has an important built inheritance and many natural sites.

Two bridges

Although the date of its construction is difficult to determine, there exists with Port-Lesney a bridge out of stone with three arches as of XVe century, which makes it possible the village to become a point of passage privileged towards Besancon. Nevertheless because of its old design (broad pillars and vaults relatively low), the bridge causes important floods in period of rising. In order to cure this harmful effect, a fourth arch is built at the end of XVe century, then a fifth end XIXe. Lastly, eleven years after the construction of a more modern bridge, this first bridge is finally destroyed in 1951. Only an arch is then preserved, still places from there at present.

After a particularly important rising in 1931, an investigation is launched for the realization of a new bridge, which would offer less resistance to the flow of the river. The construction of the new bridge begins in 1938, and is completed in 1940. The village thus has the effect of having had two bridges during more than ten years, of 1940 to 1951!

Notre Dame de Lorette

The vault of Lorette is accessible starting from the road which joined Port-Lesney with Cramans, and profits from a very beautiful sight on the valley of Loue downwards.

This hermitage was built in several stages: the chorus, with the very thick walls, constitutes the oldest part (construction estimated in XIVe century); contiguous small bedrooms would date from the beginning of XVIIe, a nave of the beginning of XVIIIe; finally a big room welded with the chorus by her northern wall is of modern construction. Outside, one can admire a splendid stone roof.

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