Auxerre
Auxerre
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Auxerre, capital of the department of Yonne, located midway between Dijon and Paris (150 km) Auxerre is located on one of the busiest motorways in France, the A6, the "Sun ".
Auxerre is already one of the best views of France and also a prestigious cultural heritage. Whatever may have been its subsequent evolution in the Middle Ages, it is first of its medieval monuments, starting with its churches, as required Auxerre in our time. The Gallo-Roman city succeeding a Gallic town was located in the plain, enjoying a major communication route, the Via Agrippa, connecting Lyon to Boulogne-sur-Mer. At the end of the fourth century, to protect themselves from invasions, a castrum was raised on the hill to the north, the future core of the medieval town.
The wine has an important place in the history of the region because the vine is cultivated in the Auxerrois since at least the second century AD The wine is also the feast, and as tradition dictates, it is the celebration of St. Vincent's rotating Auxerrois, which takes place every year at the end of January in a village wine from the region.
Many local specialties made the reputation of the region: gougères, the sausage of Chablis, Burgundy snails, beef bourguignon, bourguignon kir, the Burgundy truffle.
Do not miss:
The Abbey of Saint-Germain: The Abbey was an important center of intellectual and spiritual revival of Carolingian Europe, thanks to the fruitful activity of the great masters of the "school Auxerre". The crypts are still the largest known evidence of the Carolingian Renaissance. Frescoes dating from the 9th century, representing the martyrdom of St. Stephen before the walls of Jerusalem, are the oldest discovered to date in France. Set on two floors in the former monks' dormitory of the 17th century, the museum Saint-Germain offers beautiful collections of local archaeological prehistoric and Gallo-Roman.
The St. Stephen's Cathedral: The Gothic building now succeeded in the 13th century in a Romanesque building built in the 11th century. The new Romanesque church that remains an imposing crypt. We see, covered in ocher of the country, a fresco rare: the only known example of a Christ riding a white horse. The cathedral treasury contains, among other precious objects, enamels from the 13th century, miniatures and ancient manuscripts of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Clock Tower: Located in the heart of the pedestrian, the second protected area of Burgundy, surrounded by beautiful half-timbered houses, stands the Clock Tower, formerly known as Tower Gaillarde. Flamboyant Gothic style, it was built in the 15th century on the foundations of a tower of the Gallo-Roman Castrum. The clock face shows, with the needles of origin, lunar and solar hours.
And also: The Church of St. Peter, the Church of St. Eusebius, Leblanc Duvernoy Museum, the Chapel of the Visitation, the museum and the house of water and the environment.
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