La Bussière-sur-Ouche

La Bussière-sur-Ouche is a small Burgundy village whose character was long shaped by the Abbey of La Bussière, a Cistercian foundation of 1131 set beside the Ouche River. Through drainage, woodland management, and vineyard work, the monks turned a quiet valley into an ordered working landscape that still frames local life in stone houses, farm lanes, and fields. Though the abbey was later secularized, altered, and restored, it remains the village’s symbolic center, carrying the memory of monastic discipline into the present.