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founded around the middle of the IX century by Girart de Roussillon,
Count of Burgandy in the Cure valley at Saint-Père, the abbey was moved on the hill in 887 to
protect it from attacks by the Normands.Crowds flocked y at the beginning of the XI century,
after the pape's authentification of the saints' relics like that of Sainte Marie-Madeleine.
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| General view of Vézelay, the "eternal hill" |
Vézelay, the « eternal hill », was the ideal stop-over for pilgrins: starting point,
assembly place for crusaders like those on journey towurds Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle,
but also and above all success, of those that would be purpose attracted to the relics
of Christ companion.
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July 21, 1120 a dreadful fire destoyed the churches old
carolingian nave.The magnificent roman nave was actually built around 1150.
It is caracterized by a bicoloured stone apparatus of impressionable dimensions of 62m long. It is very
beautifully adorned with sculptured pillards illustrating scenes from the Bible.
The narthex dates from same era. The luminous Gothic chancel was completed in 1225.
The basilica pillaged by the Huguenots in 1569 was partially destoyed by the Revolution.
In the 19th century when Mérimée, inspector of historical monuments, attracted the attention
of public power, it was on the point of collapsing. Violet-le-Duc, twenty-six years old,
undertook the restoration work. The structure that we know today, roman art masterpiece, is
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In the roads of Vézelay
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This village gets it's name from it's rock opening, natural rock arch.
The necks of the Cure river pass through the two bridges, one of then a humpback bridge from the XII century
called the Vauban bridge and the other a viaduct of 33 meters high constructed near the end of the XIX century.
Further upstrean equally remains a very old bridge, the roman bridge. Remnants of a fortified castle from the
XII century. The GR13 borrows the riverbanks, between rock and forest, site of a very beautiful walk. www.morvan.com
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Constructed in the XII century, successively property of the lords of
Bazoches, Chatellux, Montmorillon and The Perrière, The Bazoches castle
was acquired in 1675 by the Marshal of Vauban offered by king Louis XIV.
Since his arrival at Bazoches Vauban made a number of installations and transformed it
into a military garrison.It is at Bazoches where he carried out the studies and plans
of three workmanships and strong positions. The elaboration on these attack methods
and fortification defences made him an uncontestable master of cental strategy and
military architecture. www.chateau-bazoches.com
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Would be an important town occupied by the Celtics, this
occuring the millenium proceeding the Christian era. Then it was an important stopping
place on the Agrippa Roman route that binds the Mediterranean to northern Europe.
Origilally, the surrounding wall of wooden ramparts then of stone, was fortified in the course
of time againt the multitude of invasions on a granite spur that dominates 100 meters of the
Cousin Valley. Avallon, in it is ancient small market town, counts for a number os historical
remnants like the Saint-Lazare collegiate, the clock tower, the winding terrace gardens, it is ramparts
or it is famous salt grandy that, at present, shelters each summer works from regional craftsmen. www.avallonnais-tourisme.com
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