- Geography:
- The village area is spread over 1218 hectares, between the mountains of Suin (602 m) and the mass of Cluny. Its altitudes range from 260 meters (downstream of the place called "The Griveaux" 550 m (Bois de St. Pierre)), with a village at 330 meters.
- Sol mostly granite, with some clayey veins here and there. Soil rather poor, which is not favorable to growing vines or the grass (even if it is the occupation of the majority of agricultural parcels today).
- The village's name comes from the root (Celtic? Gallic?) "Buff" which would designate the winds. Buffières would be a rather windswept.
- History:
- Village with typical architecture of Clunysois, Buffières (bufferia) has existed since the Middle Ages. However, traces of megalithic (menhir tumulus) suggest an occupation of the heights from the second millennium BC. Viguerie old, it is mentioned from 510.
- The charters of the abbey of Cluny mentioned numerous times the name of the village (villa Buferia, ager buferacensis) between the 10th and 18th century.
- The Concordat of 1801 particularly affected the village. A portion of the population refuses to recognize the swearers priests, imposed by the Napoleonic power. A secret cult grows with own clergy, secret rituals conducted in buildings equally inconspicuous. This cult is perpetuated to this day, less clandestine than his birth, but without proselytizing. About a quarter of the population still practiced specific rites (calendar festivals, fasts twice a week and Easter ceremonies alliances and special burials) which fail to materialize publicly by Graves extremely simple (wooden cross, mound land).
- Traditions: A dialect continues to be employed by the ancients and some farmers. His vocabulary is very close dialect of the Charolais, which itself often consists of deformations of Old French.
- Gastronomic specialties:
- The tartoillon: clafoutis with apples or pears ideally cooked in a cabbage leaf.
- The stew: pieces of bacon or pork chops cooked with cabbage, carrots (pastonades) and potatoes (treuffes).