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Bed and breakfast in Burgundy near Montbard, Fontenay and Flavigny. Ideal stop-over to South France.
Alésia MuséoParc


The oppidum of Alésia is one of the most famous archaeological sites in France, but until recent years it was suffering from its lack of visibility and from the small surface of the museum in Alise-Sainte-Reine. A large part of the 7000 hectares (oppidum and Cesar's fortifications) is covered by a forest that makes it difficult to understand the site. The council of the French department of the Côte d'Or, to whom the site belongs, decided to change this situation in 2004 and launched a huge programme to build an open air archaeological park Bernard Tschumi Architects Agency won the project with an ambitious plan: a synergy between History and Landscape which will help visitors to understand the points of view of both the besieger and besieged and to discover the different cultures that occupied the site during the first centuries A.D. The future park is divided in two parts: - The Besieger Interpretation Centre and a partial reconstruction of the roman fortified lines will introduce the Gallic War. - The museum of Gallic civilization, the « excavation area », and the base of archaeological operations will explain more generally the human occupation of the site. With its opening set for this year, Alésia's Park will be the biggest archaeological park of Europe and will give back to the site the recognition it deserves.

Parc de l'Auxois


Fun day out for all the family at Parc de l'Auxois at Arnay-sous-Vitteaux just 30kms from La Bagnosienne. Featuring:
Demonstrations with lemurs, ferrets, racoons and reptiles. Animals from all continents including - wolves, tapir, lamas, bears, zebras, camels, monkeys etc. Outdoor swimming pool and water slide open all of July and August. Shop/restaurant/refreshments. Petting farm. Animal learning centre. Adventure playground. Mini golf. Lemur Island. Small rides.

Abbaye de Fontenay (World Heritage Site)


The Abbey of Fontenay is a former Cistercian abbey located in the commune of Marmagne, near Montbard, in the département of Côte-d'Or in France. It was founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118, only a few years after he left Cîteaux Abbey to found Clairvaux Abbey. Located in a small forested valley 60 kilometres northwest of Dijon, it achieved great prosperity in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Fontenay enjoyed the protection of the Kings of France but was plundered in the Hundred Year's War and the Wars of Religion. Later, its fortunes declined, and the refectory was demolished by the monks in 1745. The abbey was closed in the French Revolution, and became a paper mill until 1902, owned for most of its period of operation by the Montgolfier family. Apart from the demolished refectory, it retains almost all of its original buildings: church, dormitory, cloister, chapter house, caldarium or "heating room", dovecote and forge, all built in Romanesque style, with later abbot's lodgings and infirmary. Today the abbey buildings are set in modern manicured parterres of lawn and gravel. It is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe, and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.

Flavigny


The 2000 movie Chocolat by Lasse Hallstrom was shot in Flavigny. The village of Flavigny is first mentioned, as Flaviniacum, in the cartulary (or charter) of the Benedictine Abbey founded on the site by a certain Widerard in 719. In the mid-9th century, in response to the increasing frequency of Viking raids, the relics of Ste Reine or Regina were removed from the nearby town of Alise to Flavigny in the hopes that they could be better protected in a more fortified setting. The relics remain in Flavigny to this day, although they travel back to Alise every fall for the celebration of the saint's holy day in early September.

Chateau de Bussy-Rabutin


The château was founded in the 12th century by Renaudin de Bussy. It was rebuilt in the 14th century, and the Renaissance galleries were added in the 1520s. altered during the reigns of Henri II (1547-1559) and Louis XIII (1610-1643). Restoration works were begun in the 19th century by the comte de Sarcus, and the property was listed as a monument historique in 1862. It was purchased by the French state in 1929, and is currently managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux. Further restoration has been carried out since the 1970s.

Alésia


Alesia was the capital of the Mandubii, one of the Gaulish tribes allied with the mighty Aedui, and after Julius Caesar's conquest a Roman town (oppidum) in Gaul. There have been archeological excavations since the time of Napoléon III in Alise-Sainte-Reine in Côte d'Or near Dijon, which have claimed that the historical Alesia is located there. New discoveries are constantly being made about this Gallo-Roman settlement on the plateau of Mont-Auxois. As a result of the latest excavation, a find was presented to the museum there with the inscription: IN ALISIIA, which finally dispelled the doubts of some archeologists on the town's identity.

Source of the Seine


What is now Source-Seine saw Gaulic pilgrimage beginning in the 1st century BC. In the late fourth century AD, Roman Emperor Theodosius I ordered the closure of pagan temples at the Seine's source and gave their property to Christian institutions. In accordance with this edict, in the fifth century the abbey of Sainte-Marie-de-Cestra, the closest religious institution to the Seine's source, received a donation from the Roman government. In the 1600s, rumors of healing powers in the Seine were circulating around Paris. This led to the construction of a grotto dedicated to the Seine Nymph and financed by its residents in the 1800s. The city of Paris officially bought the source of the Seine in 1864. Modern times have seen a wave of coin throwers flocking to the river's source.