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- Product code: 5735
- ISBN: 1900639173,
ISBN13: 9781900639170,
386 pages, paperback
Published by Boydell & Brewer on 2000
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Description of The Companion Guide to Burgundy |
Burgundy is one the richest areas in France - rich in its art and architecture, its history, its food and wines, and its glorious countryside. Nowhere in Europe are there greater examples of the Romanesque: the basilica of the Madeleine at Vézelay, the sculptures of Gislebertus of Autun, the cathedral of St Philibert at Tournus. The very names of its vineyards - Corton, Chambertin, Montrachet - conjure up a province as robust and mature as its grand crus; the concentration of treasures includes the tombs of the dukes in Dijon, the Hospices at Beaune, the Renaissance chateaux at Tanlay and Bussy-Rabutin. Once the abbeys at Cluny, Pontigny and Fontenay were the wellspring of mediaeval Christianity in Europe; now the spiritual community at Taizé speaks to the whole world. Nowhere in France is the sense of the past more immediate, nowhere does it so palpably inform the present.
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Reviews'As elegant as it is exhaustive. The whole book has body and bouquet, is well-written, witty, relaxed and impeccably observant'
Guardian
'For anyone planning to visit Burgundy this guide is indispensable'
Times Literary Supplement
| Contents of The Companion Guide to Burgundy |
1. Sens and the Senonais
2. The Tonnerrois and Auxerre
3, The Puisaye
4. The Chatillonais
5. From Chatillon to Vezelay
6. The Avallonais and the Morvan
7. From Avallon to Fontenay
8. Semur and the Auxois
9. From Saulieu to Dijon
10. Dijon
11. The Pays-Bas and the Valley of the Seine
12. The Cote
13. From Chalon to Autun
14. Nevers and the Nivernais
15. From Autun to Paray-le-Monial
16. Through the Brionnais to Charlieu
17. From Charlieu to Cluny
18. From Cluny to Tournus
19. La Bresse and Macon
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