Franches-Montagnes: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Franches-Montagnes is a high plateau landscape in the Jura covering around 200 km², with an average elevation of approximately 1,000 metres. You can rent a holiday apartment in Franches-Montagnes. For travellers looking for a high plateau in the Jura as a landscape destination, this setting can serve as a first point of reference.

Landscape

The landscape is gently undulating and combines fir and spruce forests, wooded pastures, meadows and arable land; dry-stone walls separate these areas from one another.

Franches-Montagnes belongs to the Canton of Jura in Switzerland.

Several named map entries are recorded in the wider area: Mont Terri is approximately 18.0 km to the northeast, Etang des Coeudres approximately 25.3 km to the north, Lützel (Lützel Abbey, Switzerland) approximately 24.4 km to the northeast, Château de Morimont approximately 25.2 km to the northeast, Lützel Abbey approximately 24.4 km to the northeast and La Tène approximately 27.0 km to the south of the centre of the district, in each case measured approximately as the crow flies. The surrounding area also includes Cras au Sauvage approximately 5.1 km to the east and Petit Crêt approximately 5.5 km to the southwest of this centre.

History and Culture

Montfaucon is recorded as the first settlement in Franches-Montagnes to be mentioned, in 1139; Spiegelberg Castle was founded in the late 13th century.

The name of the region is associated with a document from 1384 that granted settlers exceptional freedoms.

Saignelégier is designated as the main locality of Franches-Montagnes.

Nature

An Outdooractive guide at district level presents tours and lists Etang de la Gruère, Etang de Bollement and Plain de Saigne among the attractions of Franches-Montagnes.

If you would like to explore the subregion further at the local level, you can visit the pages for Epauvillers, La Chaux-des-Breuleux, Lajoux, Le Bémont, Le Noirmont and Les Bois.

Further local pages lead to Les Breuleux, Les Enfers, Les Genevez, Montfaucon Ju and Muriaux.

For the higher-level travel overview: Jura.