A jewel of water and forests, the Land of the Floating Wood offers a unique and preserved environment. Here, the waterways preserve the memory of the timber trains transported from the Morvandelle forests to Paris.
At the risk of their lives, navigating on the "branches" made up of logs simply linked together by wheels, the floats have supplied the capital with firewood since the 16th century and for nearly 400 years!
Leaving from Clamecy, the journey lasted eleven days at the end of which the floats returned on foot to the country, carrying the latest news.
In Clamecy, the statue of one of these hard workers, installed on the Bethlehem bridge, a room at the Museum of Art and History and the Confrérie Saint-Nicolas eco-museum perpetuate their memory.
