La Burbanche is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

La Burbanche is a small village located in a valley, at the foot of two large rocky escarpments. It is made up of five hamlets: Les Hôpitaux, La Grange des Prés, Le Grand Tare, Le Fays and Tare. The commune covers 1,082 hectares. The commune is marked in particular by the "Cluse des Hôpitals" which includes two lakes. Formerly invaded by vines, the two sides of the valley are now covered with boxwood.

Around 1020-1037, at the time of the consecration of its church (in consecratione istius ecclesiae), eleven gentlemen of Bugey (nobiles homines), among whom was a Rodolphe de Saint-Sulpice, gave to the abbey of Savigny, in Lyonnais, all the land that depended on La Burbanche.

The monks of Savigny established a priory there (priory of Burbanche), which passed before 1200, to the abbey of Cluny, which united it with that of Innimont (priory of Innimont). The possessions of the priory of La Burbanche were enclosed, in a way, in those of the Carthusians of Portes. From there, many disputes. Two transactions ended a long quarrel (vetus querela), by settling the reciprocal limits: the first, in 1239, concerning the forests, the second, in 1248, concerning the tithes. The latter is under the seal of Hugues, cardinal of Sainte-Sabine, and of Pierre de Pont, bishop of Belley.

One of the fountains of La Burbanche was in the 17th century the destination of a popular pilgrimage. Stillborn children were brought there, sometimes from very far away, who were revived by contact with the water, it was believed, for a period of time sufficient to receive baptism.

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