Mont Saint-Romain, Natural summit in Saône-et-Loire, France

Mont Saint-Romain is a 579-meter peak in Saône-et-Loire that commands views across the Clunisois and Haut-Mâconnais regions. An orientation table installed in 1948 helps visitors identify major landmarks visible from the summit.

The oratory on the summit was ceded to Cluny Abbey in 927, when the abbey's cartulary recorded the acquisition of the "ecclesia sancti romani". In the first half of the 12th century the site became frequented enough that Abbot Peter the Venerable rested there several times. Its chapel later housed two to three monks, was reduced to a simple chapel after the Middle Ages, and hosted a hermitage in the 17th century; that hermitage, of which nothing remains, was sold nationally on 20 July 1792.

On the north-east flank, beside the road up the mountain, the Fontaine du Plâtre was a spring that drew night-time pilgrimages until the late 19th century, chiefly for the cure of fevers. Pilgrims washed their eyes, drank the water and placed coins in the cracks of the basin stones. It was said the water came from the body of Saint Romain, buried nearby under a cross that has since disappeared.

The summit is reached by the road that climbs from Blanot; the Fontaine du Plâtre spring flows beside this road on the north-east flank, near the former chapel site. The orientation table erected by the Touring-club de France in 1948 stands on the crest, where the view opens west over the Clunisois and east over the Haut-Mâconnais. The caves of Blanot open at the south-west foot of the hill.

The peak is surrounded by the state-owned Grisons forest, which spreads across some 557 hectares. This woodland covers parts of four different municipalities and contains both deciduous and coniferous trees.