Historic sites in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

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Cluny Abbey

Cluny, Saône-et-Loire

The remains of the greatest abbey of the Middle Ages, founded in 910, whose church was the largest in Christendom until St Peter's in Rome was built.

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Hospices de Beaune (Hôtel-Dieu)

Beaune, Côte-d'Or

A charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.

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Bibracte and Mont Beuvray

Étang-sur-Arroux, Saône-et-Loire

The great Celtic hilltop town of the Aedui tribe, on the wooded summit of Mont Beuvray in the Morvan, where Vercingetorix was chosen to lead the Gaul…

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Château de Bussy-Rabutin

Venarey-les-Laumes, Côte-d'Or

A moated château in the Burgundy countryside where the witty courtier Roger de Bussy-Rabutin was exiled by Louis XIV after writing a scandalous book …