Discover dijon
Burgundy unrolls for you his red carpet: from dijon with santenay, you will cross villages whose name is known in the whole world: chambolle-musigny, nuits-saint-georges, vosne-romanée…
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In the heart of the history
 Town of Dijon: the old capital of the dukes of Burgundy blottie in a bosky bower offers to the traveller the resting image his drawn up bell-towers and whiteness of the stone married with the coloured tiles. Its entirely preserved historical center is traversed easily with foot, offering the charm of its lanes for a dawdling between historic buildings, shops and private mansions. Among the half-dozen of museums which account the city, that of the Art schools is of European scale. Of church in private mansion, one revives the history engraved in the stone, of the first Romance age to the neo-classicism while the animation of the markets brings back the walker to the reality of a quite alive city where it makes good food. Because Dijon does not miss air with many gardens and parks raised where one can ressourcer after one day spent in the museums. Town of Chenôve: behind the industrial frontage the old borough vine grower hides where the dukes of Burgundy and the canons of the Chapter of the cathedral of Autun exploited fields of vine. Village of Couchey: wine village along the Tourist Road of the Great Vintages of Burgundy. Beautiful cross Rebirth close to the church. Count of orientation at the entry of the plate. Castle Stephen Liégeard in Brochon: a “madness” of style néo-Rebirth inspired by the Loire château built by Stephen Liégeard, the inventor of the name “Coast-with Azur”, in the middle of a large park with rosery. Castle of the Field of VOUGEOT: remarkable site of the taste. Property of the monks of Cîteaux until the Revolution, it shelters since 1944 the Brotherhood of the Knights of Tastevin which holds sixteen chapters to with it per annum. A castle Renaissance (which one does not visit) was added into 1551 to the wine farm buildings of XIIème century: a fermenting room sheltering four enormous presses, a vast storeroom where a collection of tastevins is exposed old, an attic, old dormitory of the brothers convers, and a deep well. Town of Nuits-Saint-Georges: near the Gallo-Roman site of Bolards and great transportation routes, the borough obtains ramparts in XIVème century and, in 1629, of a belfry, become symbol of the city. Its wine is famous since it was prescribed like remedy for Louis XIV. Chief town of canton, Nuits-Saint-Georges has buildings out of stone of size of Comblanchien and pink marble of Premeaux-Prissey: markets, town hall, Saint-Denis churches of the XIXème century and Saint-Symphorien of XIIIème century, private mansions with the tiled roofs vernized, castles… The majority saw passing from the famous men: François Ier, Napoleon, astronauts of the Apollo missions… Many caveaux of tasting offers an architecture of exception thanks to cellars going back to several centuries. In one of them, in 1934, was born the Brotherhood from the Knights of Tastevin thanks to Camille Rodier and George Faiveley who thus joined the list of the large characters of the History of Nuits-Saint-Georges: Felix Tisserand, Jean-baptiste Cabet, François Thurot, Henri Challand… without forgetting the Huguette Lady! Castle of Cussigny with Corgoloin: environment XVIIIème century, lighting with gas, dovecote, forest railroad, garden with the Frenchwoman. Village of Savigny-lès-Beaune: a Romance church which hiding place a fresco of XVème century and, engraved with the pediments of the houses, sayings praising the quality of the wines of the country, “nutritive, theological, and morbifuges”. Castle of Chorey-lès-Beaune: small castle of which there remain the ditches and two turns rebuild at the XVIIème century. Dovecote, park. Outsides only. Castle of Pommard: discover imposing it press of XVIème century and the exposure of the tools of yesterday and today which explain you how, since always, the hand of the man contributed to re-elected of this wine. Do not be surprised of a familiar shade: Bonaparte, large friendly of the family Alive-Micault, had his room and his bathroom to the castle. In the square court gone back to 1726, throne, victorious, the bronze of “George Saint and the Dragon”. Let you tell the Dorée legend of this officer come to embank the dragon and to save the girl of the King… This contemporary work of El Salvador Dali, opens to you, per hour of the centenary of its birth, the way of the future Center of Contemporary art, as of spring 2005. This place of worship turned about the 21st century, will be the occasion to share new emotions near artists of reputation. Further, a course of the five directions will allure you. Admire these gardens decorated with solid masses to the multiple colors. True rooms of greenery, each table is the expression of a different floral art for a discovery all in nuance. Rediscover savours of formerly with the reconstitution of a kitchen garden to old. The gardener will say all to you on forgotten vegetables, of traditional peas of the fields to white carrot. Lastly, divide with the chief of culture, all the secrecies of the vine. Leave to discovered the Field and its ground. Castle of Saint-Romain: the castle occupies a rocky outcrop dominating the village. The first texts attest its presence as of XIIème century. Bought in 1300 by the dukes of Burgundy, it was shaven with the Revolution. The excavations put at the day a necropolis mérovingienne and the remainders of the vault castrale, parish church until XVème century. An arrow archaeological path on the site of the old castle extremely demolished evokes the history of the place while offering a superb point of view on the Coast of Beaune. Building site of excavations of Dracy with Baubigny: medieval site. In the hamlet of Dracy, Burgundian village in XIVème century, remain the foundations of about fifteen dwellings deserted after the Black Death which reached Burgundy in 1348. On the commune of Baubigny, to also see: vault, fountain of the Oak and its Gallo-Roman steles with Orches, church with Baubigny. Strong house of Gamay with Saint-Aubin: always inhabited, it belongs to the type of strong house Burgundian feudal: quadrangular plan, ditches, gross strengthened tower. Sold like national good with the Revolution, it was restored at the XIXème century by the family Chauvigny de Blot. Visit rooms of XIVème century, low room, imposing keep and landscape park with English. Castle of Rochepot: this medieval fortress with the glazed tiles of XIIIème and XVème centuries was the residence of the Lords Pot, knights of the Golden Fleece and advisers of the dukes of Burgundy. Restored by Colonel Carnot, it preserves all the elements which ensured its defense: two drawbridges, weephole, covered way. During the visit, one discovers the vault of XIIème century, the room of the guards, the imposing kitchen, the Chinese room, of the parts to the coloured murals, a Gothic furniture and Rebirth. To also see in the main courtyard, the deep well of soixante-douze meters, dug in the rock.
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Wine tasting
Village of Marsannay-the-Coast: only producing village of a rosy wine. Manor of the Stone quarry with Fixin: old property of Cisterciens. Press XIIème century. Free tasting of the wines of the field. Village of Gevrey-Chambertin: in the middle of the Coast of Nights, Gevrey-Chambertin is the first village of the Coast to have received in 1847 the authorization to marry with its name that of its best believed. Town of Beaune: ringed by its ramparts, its name inevitably evokes the prestigious wines of the Old people's homes of Beaune put on sale at the candle right after harvest, third Sunday of November under the market vis-a-vis the Hospital. City devoted to the trade of the wine since blazing the time of the dukes, it has, in addition to many cellars, a museum entirely dedicated to the invaluable liquid ruby which would have been bequeathed to us by the Bacchus god. Beaune remains a secret city that it is necessary for us to traverse with foot to discover of it all the charm of the lanes bordered of old houses and the frontages worked of the Renaissance hotels sitting on old cellars, the courses interior, the flowered small squares and the gardens. In the middle of the city, it gathered its florets: blazing Old people's homes, noble collegial the Notre-Dame and the residence of the dukes from Burgundy to which Beaune owes the hours record of its history. Village of Meursault: with the circuit “Escapade”, the Office of Tourism proposes a guided tour to you which will make you discover the streets and the soils of Meursault, the country where the black pinot yields the step to Chardonnay, major red with the white. At the end of circuit, the tasting of white Meursault in the vault of the town hall.
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Discover the blackcurrant fruits
Cassissium: on more than 1.000 m ², discover all the secrecies of blackcurrant, its history, its culture, its transformation and its multiple uses in Burgundy and in the world… Muséographie, visit of the Védrenne production, multi-media spectacle, interactive terminals, tasting… Firm Fruirouge: enter our small paradise where Tradition is cultivated with Passion. Camaieu the violine ones, odors enivrantes of harvest, lapping of jams mijotant in the copper pots, papillae émoustillées by freshness and the high content in fruits which the creams exhale, ratafias and other softnesses… Happiness with abundance! With two steps of the fields, glass of Blackcurrant to the hand, let tell the history of this small black bay, if attached to that of the High Coasts… Restoring Coast-in Or: the chief of this restaurant *** concocte with wonder of delicious dishes sweeten-salted and fruity with blackcurrant.
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Fruity sweets
La Vie Gourmande: “to give again with our jams their true savours and perfumes of formerly has been our permanent concern”, such is the currency of Catherine and Michel Juste.Installés for more than fifteen years in the middle of the vineyard of the High-Coasts in a typically Burgundian house, they realize with old variety of specialities containing blackcurrants which will charm the experts in search of authenticity and quality (jams, frosts, syrups and gingerbreads). Pastry making Olivier Bourau: in this small pastry making-chocolate factory nuitonne, the mounts and wonders will wake up with your palate: filled pastes of fruits consistent to blackcurrants, jams houses, Small Burgundian laminated with blackcurrant, tarts… Olivier Bourau offers an astonishing panel of delicacies, testimonys of an uncontested know-how. Bechtold pastry making: this baker's and confectioner's shop proposes to you a varied set of products containing fruits of the soil: foam with the fruits, jams, cassissines, beffroit blackcurrant and amandines blackcurrant…
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Mountain bike hikes in pays nuiton
What could be more pleasant than to peacefully discover an area with the wire of one strolls with VTT in family or between friends? In love with nature, of the wine richnesses of the Coast of Nights and amateurs of our rich person inheritance, enfourchez your bicycle and leave on our ways and minor roads between plain and wine Côte to discovered Canton Nuits-Saint-Georges. Two routes to the choice: Longest (35 km) involves you in the plain through fields and forests, until Cîteaux. In the middle of the softness of this nature, the History will address many winks to you and will bring back for you to time Dukes or apogee of the Abbey of Citeaux. The other, shorter (15km) revêt a more sporting character since it leads you on the heights of Nuits-Saint-Georges, with the doors of the High Coasts, through vines and forests.
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Through the chatillon forest
Salivas: 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 Salivas 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. Bore-hole-the-Templiers: laundrette located under the town hall-school, constituting a communal unit characteristic of IIIème 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-on-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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