Nivernais Canal and River Yonne with Locaboat

Bases at Joigny, Corbigny and Dompierre sur Besbre

As you follow the valley of the Yonne and the Canal du Nivernais, you travel through a landscape where, at each bend or lock, new vistas open up, often punctuated by the tower of some little-known but sublime Romanesque church.

Here, at superb restaurants in Joigny and Auxerre, food and fine Nivernais architecture complement each other like capon and a good Chablis.
Irancy, surrounded by vineyards, sleeps around its church which felicitously combines Gothic and Renaissance features.
The dramatic location of Châtel-Censoir, a pretty village with a 5th-century crypt and ancient church, vies in splendour with the excursion to glorious Vézelay, its main street lined with medieval bouses and its magnificent Sainte-Madeleine basilica.

Friendly, bustling Clamecy retains its ancient dovecots.
The canal also makes the most of its verdant setting as it passes the Rochers de Saussois, where, if rock-climbing is your thing, you can try your hand at scaling the crags.

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One-week cruises from Joigny

• Joigny, Auxerre, Vermenton, Chatel-Censoir and return
  Cruise distance 154km (95.69 miles), 68 locks, 33 hours of cruising

• Joigny, Auxerre, Vermenton, Clamecy, Corbigny ONE WAY
  Cruise distance 128km (79.54 miles), 62 locks, 29 hours of cruising

10 or 11-day cruises from Joigny

• Joigny, Auxerre, Chatel-Censoir, Clamecy and return
  Cruise distance 194km (120.55 miles), 86 locks, 42 hours of cruising

• Joigny, Villeneuve, Sens, Bray, Nogent sur Seine and return
  Cruise distance 256km (159.07 miles), 48 locks, 42 hours of cruising

Three-week cruise from Joigny

• Joigny, Sens, Montereau, Moret, Montargis, Briare, Sancerre, Nevers, Decize, Chatillon, Baye, Clamecy, Auxerre, Joigny CIRCLE
  Cruise distance 553km (343.62 miles), 214 locks, 100 hours of cruising

  Includes 3 rivers and 3 canals

One-week cruises from Corbigny

• Corbigny, Tannay, Clamecy, Chatel-Censoir, Corbigny
  Cruise distance 108km (67.11 miles), 62 locks, 26 hours of cruising

10/11-day cruise from Corbigny

• Corbigny, Tanlay, Clamecy, Coulanges, Vermenton, Corbigny
  Cruise distance 158km (98.18 miles), 92 locks, 38 hours of cruising

Two-week cruise from Corbigny

• Corbigny, Chatillon, Decize, Nevers, Sancerre, Corbigny
  Cruise distance 340km (211.27 miles), 168 locks, 72 hours of cruising

One-week cruises from Dompierre sur Besbre

• Dompierre, Decize, Cercy, Chatillon en Bazois, Dompierre
  Cruise distance 170km (105.63 miles), 58 locks, 30 hours of cruising

Two-week cruises from Dompierre sur Besbre

• Dompierre, Decize, Chatillon en Bazois, La Collancelle, Clamecy, Auxerre, Joigny: ONE WAY
  Cruise distance 260km (161.56 miles), 129 locks, 54 hours of cruising