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Virgin of Autun and the Nativity
of Cardinal Rolin by the Master
of Moulins, from about 1480.
The Porte St-André and
Porte d’Arroux, and the ruins
of the Théâtre Romain and
the Temple de Janus, recall
Autun’s glorious Roman past.
Musée Rolin
"' ⌂ 3 rue des Bancs
§ 03 85 52 09 76 # 10am–
5pm Wed–Mon ¢ Dec–mid-
Feb, public hols

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Paray-le-Monial
! E4 ⌂ Saône-et-Loire Situated on place Guignaud Dusk falling on the
£ @ n 25 av Jean-Paul II;
www.tourisme- is the ornate Maison Jayet, towers of Abbaye de
St-Philibert at Tournus
paraylemonial.fr dating from the 16th century,
which houses the town hall.
Dedicated to the cult of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Musée du Hiéron Southwest of Tournus lies the
Basilique du Sacré-Coeur has ⌂ 13 rue de la Pais # Mid- Mâconnais landscape of hills,
made Paray-le-Monial one of Mar–Dec ∑ paraylemonial. vineyards, orchards, red-tiled
the most important sites of fr/le-musee-du-hieron farmhouses and Romanesque
pilgrimage in modern France. churches. Brancion is a pretty
Marguerite-Marie Alacoque, hill village, Chapaize has an
who was born here in 1647, 24 11th-century church and there
had rather gory visions, is a sumptuous Renaissance
from which the cult later Tournus château at Cormatin.
developed, and swept across ! F4 ⌂ Saône-et-Loire The village of Taizé is the
France during the 19th £ @ n Place de l’Abbaye; centre of a world-famous
century. The church is a www.tournugeois.fr ecumenical community.
small version of the now-lost To the north, Chalon-sur-
abbey church of Cluny. Jewel of Tournus, the Abbaye Saône features the Musée
The Musée du Hiéron de St-Philibert is one of Niépce, dedicated to the
provides insight into industrial Burgundy’s oldest and greatest inventor of photography,
artistic tile production that Romanesque buildings. It was Nicéphore Niépce (1765–1833),
took place here during the founded by a group of monks who was born in the city.
19th and 20th centuries. from Noir moutier, who had
been driven from their island Musée Greuze
by invading Normans in the ⌂ 21 rue de l’Hôpital
9th century, and brought with # Apr–Oct: 10am–1pm &
them relics of their patron 2–6pm Wed–Sun ¢ 1 May
saint, Philibert (still in the ∑ musee-greuze.fr.
choir). Rebuilt in the 10th–12th
centuries, the well-fortified
abbey church is made from INSIDER TIP
pale pink stone, with black- St-Vincent
and-white vaulting inside. Tournante
The 17th-century Hôtel- Each January a different
Dieu has its original rooms Burgundy village hosts
complete with the furniture, this celebration of all
equipment and pharmacy on aspects of winemaking,
display. It also houses the with a procession of
Musée Greuze, dedicated to the 100 robed confreries
Tournus’s most famous son, (guilds) that then host
the artist Jean-Baptiste wine tastings.
Greuze (1725–1805).
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