Talk to most people about the ‘cœur de France’ and they usually take the map of France and stick their finger in the centre of it. Burgundians however will quickly correct them by insisting that you view the outline of mainland France as a kind of misshapen torso and mark the place to the centre right or the eastern side where you would expect to find its beating heart. There you will find the ancient town of Tournus with its twin towered Abbaye of Saint Philibert by the side of the Saône River. Its position as an ancient staging post is no accident. Roughly half way between Pas-de-Calais in the north and the Méditerranée in the south, it is also the geographic mid-point between the cities of Dijon and Lyon.