Dijon routes
Forget the rumour of the cities and let you rock, the time of a mini-cruising, by the quietude of the vingeanne and the saone. they will take you along to their rate/rhythm of saint-maurice-on-vingeanne until seurre.
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From the county of the three rivers to vingeanne
 Selongey: the village contains prehistoric vestiges and Roman time, in particular, the Gallo-Roman villa of Tuillières whose exhumed furniture is currently with the archaeological museum of Dijon. On the territory of Selongey two vaults, dedicated one to Sainte Gertrude rise and the other in Sainte Anne. Visit Seb factory: manufacture of the famous pressure-cooker.
Caves of Bèze: a sumptuous rock amphitheatre and a walk in the boat on the underground river with the gleam of magic illuminations.
Castle of Fountain-Frenchwoman: classified among the most beautiful castles of the area, it incarnates the traditional perfection of the large French residences of the Century of the Lights. Vast structured park of limes cut out of gantries with the main building of style Louis XV with furniture and decoration of time, it offers a remarkable unit of style. In the living rooms of pageantry, the room of the guards and the apartments float the memory of its beautiful ladies of the manor, Honorine de Grimaldi, princess of Monaco and Mrs Saint Julien which held a literary living room shining attended by Voltaire and Madam de Staël. Castle of Rosières: surrounded by agricultural farm buildings, it is presented as an imposing keep of XVème strengthened century crowned of a belt of machicolation at consoles constituting a covered way at the top of the building preserved very well. One sees there the armorial bearings of the marquis of the Saint-Seine, a beautiful spiral staircase and a house of XVIIème decorated with frescos. Castle of Arcelot: of style Louis XV, it is the neo-classic castle built in the area, always inhabited by the descendants of the member of Parliament Philibert Verchère who made it build. The living room preserves a splendid decoration of polychrome stuccos carried out in 1765. Very beautiful landscape park with English (beginning XIXème century) carried out by JM Morel. Course of the remarkable, the birds and animal gasolines present. Chinese factory (1800).
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The saone valley
Faience manufacture of Longchamp: production of crockery (earthenware and vitroporcelaine), first choice, second choice and displaced. Articles gift. Barbotines: new collection and reproductions. Store of factory. Boat-walk-restoration Maltess: boat-walk with air-conditioned panoramic room, window of exposure and higher bridge. One hour cruising or an hour and half, cruising meal three hours with passage of the lock of Poncey or cruising to the five hour old chart. City of Saint-Jean-of-Losne: with crossed of the Saone, channel of Burgundy and channel of the Rhone in the Rhine, the smallest town of France (thirty-six hectares of ground and twenty hectares of water) is the great appointment of the marines, in particular at the time of the festival of the Forgiveness of the Marines in June. Abbey of Cîteaux: if the abbey rested by Robert de Molesme in 1098, cradle of the order cistercian, underwent many transformations during centuries, it did not remain less about it the head office of the order, always inhabited by monks cistercians. One can visit there, inside the fence, of beautiful vestiges of XVème century: cloister of the copyists and library recently restored as well as the increased église' and transform. Exposures on the illuminations of XIIème century, on the art of the binding, the day of the monk punctuate the vist. Audio-visual presents the monastic life today, in Cîteaux. The Abbey of Cîteaux is also famous for its cheese, the Trappist commonly called cheese of Cîteaux. This cow's milk cheese to pressed paste, fruity, with the taste of pasture is bought directly with the store of the abbey where the monks cistercians perpetuate the cheese-making tradition of this area by selling with very advantageous tariffs a cheese of a single savour. Town of Auxonne: old Burgundian fortified town on the bank comtoise of the Saone, it kept of its past of city-border, of important fortifications, an arsenal built by Vauban and a castle built under Louis XI which preserves the memory of the stay of Napoleon Bonaparte, junior at the Artillery School by Auxonne by 1788 to 1791. House of the ancestors of Bossuet: in the old family house of red brick Bossuet dating from the beginning of XVIème century, exposure on the local excavations (prehistory, times Gallo-Roman and medieval) and on the industry which made the fame of Seurre (piping out of sandstone and prosthesis). An important sector is reserved for river shipping. Hospital of Seurre: founded in 1688 and increased with XVIIème and XIXème centuries, it one of most beautiful of Burgundy, is always used like old people's home and hospital. One can see there the large room of the patients with his mi-clos beds of the XVIIIème century, the vault Saint-Louis, the pharmacy with his pots out of earthenware and his woodworks. House of Fishing: created on the initiative of the angling club, this permanent hallieutic exposure presents the various techniques of fishing, the evolution of the material, the naturalized fish heads and the aquariums sheltering the various fish species living in the Saone. House Country-woman 1900 in Cléry: in a farm built on two departments, Coast-in Or and the Jura, creation of an interior 1900: reconstitution of a country house, large room with the various trade associations from this time: peasant, ménuisier, blacksmith, sabot-maker, baker, hairdresser, dressmaker, hatter, ironer; pharmacy, school, room dedicated to the religious life, room on the topic of the animals of the forest (wild boar, roe-deer, young wild boar, marten, long pitchfork, fox, duck in a wood decoration), cheese dairy with separator and churns. Exposure of various old agricultural tools atour of the farm. Under the hangar: threshing-machine, hearse, trades of the wine. Visit avicolous breeding and of mini-firm with dwarf animals (pigs, goats, asses, rabbits, hens). Basin with fish. Village of the Pontailler-on-Saone: located at the confluence of the Saone, the channel of the Marne in the Saone, of Albane, Bèze, Vingeanne and Ognon, the Pontailler-on-Saone offer beautiful points of view on these rivers and constitute a place favourable with fishing and the nautical activities. Church Saint-Maurice of the XVIIIème century and statue of the Notre-Dame Virgin of the Ardoux Mount with panoramic sight on the plain of the Saone and the mounts of the Jura. Arboretum de Tart-le-Haut: hundred fifty gasolines of trees and different shrubs equipped with explanatory plates. Arboretum of Tilery with Soirans: the arboretum of Soirans gathers some a hundred and forty species out of one kilometer and half, with a hundred and sixty trees and three hundreds - fifty shrubs of different varieties.
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The top of the western civilisation
Boat-stroll “Billebaude”: at the beginning of Pouilly-in-Auxois, like the marines of the beginning of the century, borrow the time of a crossing, the “vault” on 3,3 km. After this strolls on the channel of Burgundy to fifty meters under ground with deepest, you will be able to admire the landscape. The pilot will evoke the history of this strange site during the voyage. Regional house of Arts of the Table: installed in the old Saint-Pierre old people's home of the XVIIème century, it is devoted to exposures related on greediness, the food and the table in general. In 2005, the exposure will have as a subject: large tables on decoration of plates. The old kitchen which preserved a dresser-metal plaque Louis XV presents a tin collection and earthenware, among which two dishes Bernard Palissy. Châteauneuf-in-Auxois: on a rocky outcrop dominating the agricultural rich person paline draws up the imposing medieval fortress, guardian of the southernmost steps of Auxois. Around spreads a small village prosperous and flowered with the beautiful architecture of stone-built houses decorated with pediments and turrets of staircase dating from XVème and XVIème centuries. The Saint-Jacob church and Saint-Philippe of XVIème century shelters beautiful statues of which Midsummer's Day Baptiste allotted to Claus Sluter. Gardens and park of the Castle of Barbirey: landscape park with English drawn at the XIXème century, classified as “garden remparquable” (label of the Ministry for the Culture). After a long period of abandonment, its restoration emphasizes the landscapes of the valley of Ouche and the fauna and the flora of this microphone-area. It preserved its traditional aspect of landscape garden, with a large kitchen garden in terraces, an orchard, a wetland (pond), a flowered meadow and underwoods. Interventions of artists and the reception of a festival of alive spectacles “Between court and gardens” make a cultural place with whole share of it. The agricultural field is composed of a residence of Master altered at the XIXème century and commun runs XVIIème and XVIIIème century.
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Medieval cities and cistercian testimonies
Abbey of Fontenay: almost intact since its foundation by Saint-Bernard in 1118, it is the most faithful example of Cistercian abbey dreamed by the large reformer of the order Benedictine. Ideal city insulated in the middle of wood, it gathers in its enclosure all which the monks needed for work for the spirit and the body. Around the cloister of a perfect harmony organize the church, vast vessel of stone, the surmounted chapter house of the dormitory, the scriptorium, to chauffoir it and forges it supplied with a derivation of the river, place of work of the brothers convers. Supplementing this Romanesque architecture, the old abbey palate of the XVIIème century and the garden with the Frenchwoman add to the charm of the place. The site is classified “World Inheritance” since 1981. Pleasure garden to the Frenchwoman classified as “Remarkable Garden”. Vineyard of Flavigny: the revival of the Vineyard of Flavigny is the history of the passion of a family (Vermeere) which wanted to make revive one of the oldest vineyards of Burgundy. It is currently the only Burgundian example of realization by private individuals of a vineyard. Located in the middle of Auxois, to équidistance between the vineyards of the Coast and Chablisien, the Vineyard of Flavigny extends on a single site from 16 hectares, on the southern slopes of Flavigny-on-Ozerain and in the vicinity immediate of the Mount Auxois.Il vraissemblablement existed already time of the head office of Vercingétorix by César, of which one of the camps is currently planted in black Pinot. In 1820, the Files of Coast-D' Gold indicate that the vineyard of Flavigny extended on a surface from 480 hectares and that it represented the principal activity of the city. But it goes étioler at the end of the XIXe century, on arrival of will phylloxera. In 1993, there remained only 2 hectares of vine divided into multiples small pieces. Six type of vines were established on the slopes of Flavigny. In red, black Pinot and César (a very old Burgundian type of vine) and in white, Chardonnay, the Resident of Auxerre, gray Pinot (or Pinot beurot) and the White grape. All the wine makings are split. The breeding of the wine is carried out in the wine storehouses of the field, which makes it possible to appreciate the diversity of the productions and to be able to propose with marketing eleven kinds of different wines. Excavations of Alésia: top of the view-point, one discovers the landscape of the head office of Alésia and the vestiges of the Gallo-Roman city established with the top of the Auxois Mount, with lanes, colonnades, a theatre, temples and a forum. The houses, vast or modest, côtoient the workshops of blacksmiths and bronziers, testifying to the activity of Mandubiens who occupied the site of Ier century before Jesus Christ in IVème century. Castle of Bussy-Rabutin: Roger de Rabutin, count de Bussy, noble turbulent from the court of the Sun king and cousin of Madam de Sévigné spent his years of exile Re-to decorate the family castle. The main building Louis XIII lengthened of two wings laid out in “U” forms a very sober unit completed in 1649. It is inside that the count delivers himself to imagination, tracing using tables inserted in delicate woodworks, a very caustic fresco of its time and court of Versailles. It of its love life and military in question, gathering in the various parts and galleries, is also accompanied by currencies, the portraits of his/her friends of which his/her beautiful cousin, of the great men of war and itself as a lieutenant of the armies of Roy. The splendid garden with the Frenchwoman was restored in her state of the XVIIème century with fountains, encircled floors of boxwood, cabinets of greenery, a labyrinth and thickets delimited by star alleys.
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Through the chatillon forest
Salives: laundrette of the XIXème century comprising a semi-circular vault, consolidated by 5 arcs beams. One of most beautiful of the circuit, this laundrette is fed by the source of the Bast which leaves an excavation located at the foot of a small cliff, in top of which the church of Salives is. The artistic order entrusted to the artist John Armleder relates to the cave located inside the laundrette and from which the spring water comes.
Beneuvre: the commune has two identical laundrettes located of an end at the other of the village in edge of road.
Bure-les-Templiers: laundrette located under the town hall-school, constituting a communal unit characteristic of 3rd Republic. Curiosity because the use considered inappropriate the too great proximity between the laundrette (flowered language of the lavender fields) and the innocent earss of the schoolboys. The artistic order relates to the drawing of the reason for the two doors, designed to authorize the vision inside the building, and on the design of a course connecting the various fountains of the village between them. Artist: Liam Gillick
Recey-sur-Ource: laundrette located in edge of road, restored, stone and cover of lava. Work of Peter Halley: “Asphalt Celt”.
Voulaines-les-Templiers: stone laundrette, cover of Roman tiles, beautiful frame inside the building.
Essarois: laundrette-fountain restored, located in edge of road. Artistic installation was carried out by Domenica Gonzalez-Foerster. Vanvey: incontestably one of the most beautiful laundrettes of the circuit from the architectural point of view, this building is built in length at the edge of Ource and comprises fifteen wood arcs on stone pilliers.
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Castles
Castle of Epoisses: protected by a double enclosure, small village strengthened in the middle of the borough with its church, its houses and a dovecote of 3.000 boxes (XVIème century), the castle built in oval and cut down by half by the revolutionists reveals little by little the charms of a masonry clearing to the wire of the centuries. Madam de Sévigné had her room there. Philippe the Bold one, Henri IV and Chateaubriant were his famous guests. The various living rooms and rooms carry the print of the embellishments brought consequently family which lives the castle since 1672: portraits of family, exquisite furniture, tapestries of the Goblins and Brussels, paintings to the stencil key set, woodworks painted… a walk in the flowered park arranged in terraces and floors after the Revolution offers beautiful prospects on this splendid residence. Floor of five hundred rose trees in the main courtyard, green garden, gold and money, mixed to border flowered from June to October.
Castle of Bussy-Rabutin: Roger de Rabutin, count de Bussy, noble turbulent from the court of the Sun king and cousin of Madam de Sévigné spent his years of exile Re-to decorate the family castle. The main building Louis XIII lengthened of two wings laid out in “U” forms a very sober unit completed in 1649. It is inside that the count delivers himself to imagination, tracing using tables inserted in delicate woodworks, a very caustic fresco of its time and court of Versailles. It of its love life and military in question, gathering in the various parts and galleries, is also accompanied by currencies, the portraits of his/her friends of which his/her beautiful cousin, of the great men of war and itself as a lieutenant of the armies of Roy. The splendid garden with the Frenchwoman was restored in her state of the XVIIème century with fountains, encircled floors of boxwood, cabinets of greenery, a labyrinth and thickets delimited by star alleys.
Castle of Bourbilly: two women, the very virtuous Jeanne de Chantal and celebrates it Marquise of Sévigné lived in this worthy castle, one of oldest of Burgundy, always inhabited since her construction in XIVème century. Charles de Franqueville Re-decorated the castle at the romantic period. The most remarkable parts are the library equipped with Gothic woodworks and the enlightened living room of a single whole of nine crystal glosses of Venice. After the fire of 1952, the rehabilitated vault will remain an interesting testimony of our time. It accomodates the “Paradisus”, portraits of thirty owners, painted by Edouard de Crépy. One will discover under the shades of the beautiful park drawn by Alphand and crossed by the Serene one, the basins in cascade.
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