Port

Chalon sur Saône

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Maximum length: 16 m
Maximum draught: 1 m

River port of 100 berths on the right bank of the Saône in Chalon-sur-Saône, Burgundy, at the foot of the old town.

Guide

Approach and anchoring

Reached on the Saône between Tournus upstream and Mâcon downstream, on the Freycinet gauge. Maximum draught 1 m at the pontoons. Quai de la Poterne lies 0.3 NM N and Fragnes on the Canal du Centre is 3.5 NM N.

Practical

Pontoons with water and electricity. Fuel station on site. Shops and market of Chalon within 400 m, rail station on the Paris-Lyon line 1 km away.

Ashore

Musée Nicéphore Niépce, dedicated to the Chalonnais inventor of photography, stands on the riverfront quay 400 m from the port. The Saint-Vincent cathedral and the timber-framed houses of place Saint-Vincent are at 500 m. Entrance to the Canal du Centre and its lock chain toward Digoin starts at Fragnes, 3.5 NM N.

History

Chalon has been a Saône crossing since Roman Cabillonum and grew as a river freight hub in the 19th century. Nicéphore Niépce produced the first permanent photograph from nature here in 1827, at his estate of Saint-Loup-de-Varennes south of the town.