Marché d'Autun — Place du Champ de Mars
Every Saturday morning, the Place du Champ de Mars fills with farmers, cheese-makers and charcutiers from across the Morvan and Côte Chalonnaise, creating one of the liveliest weekly markets in southern Burgundy. Arrive before 9 a.m. to see the stalls at their most abundant and the locals at their most animated.
What to Buy
Look for Époisses and Chaource cheeses sold directly by the farms that make them, alongside slabs of jambon persillé, the parsley-flecked Burgundian terrine that tastes of Sunday lunches past.
In autumn, vendors pile up cèpes, girolles and other Morvan forest mushrooms by the kilo — buy a paper bag and eat them that evening with a knob of local butter and a glass of Mercurey.
The Market Atmosphere
The square is flanked by 19th-century arcaded buildings that give the market a pleasingly theatrical backdrop; grab a coffee at one of the café terraces on the perimeter and watch the whole spectacle unfold.
Local honey producers from the Morvan Natural Park are a reliable fixture, offering tastings of acacia, chestnut and wildflower varieties — the chestnut honey is dark, almost bitter, and extraordinary on a slice of pain d'épices.
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