Places to see in ( Auxerre - France ) The Clock Tower
Places to see in ( Auxerre - France ) The Clock Tower
The highlight of the heart of Auxerre Old Town is a 15th century clocktower where the ochre and gold coloured sundial and moondial can be seen. It was built in 1483 as one of the main towers that made up the fortifications of the medieval city. The clock itself was added in the 17th century and is one of the more interesting examples of its type. One hand indicates the time and the other hand indicates which day of the lunar month it is, taking over twenty nine days to circulate every month.
The Auxerre Clock Tower, located in the pedestrian zone, is a Gallo-Roman heritage of Bourgogne. Rested on the Tower, a dedicated room contains the mechanism of the Clock, settled by the middle-class Auxerre during the fifteenth century. Pay attention at the garfish of the clock indicating the sun and the moon.
On the side of the tower once there was the house of the bailiff, made famous by a doggerel used to sing in the French schools, and dedicated precisely to Guillaume Roussel, better known as Cadet Roussel. In the same neighborhood, you will find several other attractions, including the Renaissance houses, the art deco buildings and many statues.
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Places to see in ( Auxerre - France )
Places to see in ( Auxerre - France )
Auxerre is a town on the Yonne River and in the Yonne department of the Burgundy region. Historically, the town owes its importance to its important position on the river, and also to the once important trade route between the Mediterranean and the North Sea. Auxerre has received the classification of a protected Historic Town in France as well as being one of the French 'villes d'art et histoire' towns (see French Towns of Art and History).
Auxerre is an interesting place to visit, with the town centre towered over by the cathedral and by several churches. The part of the town of most interest to visitors occupies the hill that runs up from the west bank of the river, and includes the major churches and the historical old town. Before starting to explore ask for the map at Auxerre Tourist Office - they have a paid version which suggests a route to be followed and an 'under the counter' free version which also shows the highlights. The main Tourist Office in Auxerre is next to the river, although a smaller one can also be found near the clocktower.
The best way to get a perspective of the churches in Auxerre is by walking onto the main bridge across the river (the Pont Paul Bert). From here you have a very good view of the Auxerre 'skyline' (and is also the place where many photographs of Auxerre are taken). From here you can see three main churches - running south to north these are the Church of Saint Peter, the Saint Etienne Cathedral, and the Saint Germain Abbey.
The Cathedral Saint-Etienne is an imposing gothic style cathedral built and modified from the 11th to the 16th centuries. Take a look at the carvings around the doorway then pass inside the cathedral to see some of the best known stained glass windows in France, and the fascinating 11th century crypt where you can see remains of the earlier cathedral on the same site and a very ancient fresco.
The Abbey of Saint-Germain at Auxerre is also interesting, with the cloisters and other monastery buildings now open to the public, partly as a museum dedicated to the history of Auxerre and region. The abbey is renowned for the frescoes it contains in its crypt which date from the 9th century and are the oldest known church frescoes in France. There are several other religious monuments in Auxerre including the Church of Saint-Pierre, the Church of Saint-Eusebé and the Visitandines Chapel among others.
Although they dominate the skyline, Auxerre is much more than just crypts and churches - the town itself has a great deal to offer as you explore and much of the old historic centre of the town is now a region of protected development. There are attractive squares where you can take a rest in a cafe, joined by narrow medieval streets and a myriad of attractive ancient houses, often with half-timbered facades. The parts of Auxerre around the town hall and the clock tower are the most interesting.
The highlight is the old town gateway in the heart of Auxerre Old Town, a 15th century clocktower where the ochre and gold coloured sundial and moondial can be seen. The tower is in the heart of the pedestrianised centre of Auxerre. The rest of the old town should also be explored, especially in the section of town between the Town Hall and the Saint Etienne Cathedral, where you will discover various other interesting buildings.
If you walk a little way along the river (the 'marine quarter' of the town), you have attractive views across the town and can see some of the many boats that stop here. There are two museums in Auxerre that are of interest to visitors. One is the Museum Leblanc-Duvernoy featuring tapestries and furniture, while the other is the Natural History Museum. Of the many parks and gardens in the town we recommend you visit the Arboretum Darnus-Rantheaume or the Parc de l'Arbre Sec, a botanic garden next to the river.
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The Clock Tower
Vieille Ville
Abbaye de Saint-Germain d'Auxerre
Cathedrale Saint-Etienne
Les Caves Bailly Lapierre
Cadet Rousselle Statue
Eglise Saint-Eusebe
Musee Saint-Germain
Eglise Saint Pierre
Parc de Boutissaint
Auxerre, France
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The View from a French clock tower
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Travel France - Visiting the Clock Tower of Riquewihr
Take a tour of Riquewihr Clock Tower in Riquewihr, France -- part of the World's Greatest Attractions travel video series by GeoBeats.
The town of Riquewihr in Alsace France, near the German border, holds many delightful sites, both modern and medieval.
One of these is the town's important central landmark, the Riquewihr Clock Tower.
The traditional medieval facade of the tower is uniquely designed so that it terraces upwards, towards the clock face.
In season, the windows of this brick and timber tower are decorated with planters of colorful flowers from the Alsace area.
The clock tower also serves as the outstanding Upper Gate, and is one of the town's original fortifications.
Today, Riquewihr's tower is a piece of heritage that still faithfully keeps the time.
Auxerre France • Auxerre Cathedral | European Waterways
Auxerre, France - Auxerre Cathedral - During our cruise aboard hotel barge L’Art de Vivre we enjoy an excursion to the medieval town of Auxerre. Originally the capital of Lower Burgundy, the town prides itself on its lavish Renaissance houses, fine churches and particularly its magnificent cathedral situated close to the river.
The Gothic Cathédral St-Étienne was completed in 1560, taking over three centuries to build. The interior is lit up by 13th century stained glass. Flying buttresses lend support and architectural interest. The Musée St-Germain houses an exhibition of Gallo-Roman finds. It occupies a 12th century abbey founded by the wife of the first Christian king of France. The crypts are decorated with the oldest frescoes in France (9th century).
At the junction of the Canal du Nivernais and the River Yonne, Auxerre is a beautiful city and a pleasant port, with elegant buildings gracing its waterfront. Auxerre was an important spiritual centre and a big market town for timber and wine. The River Yonne made Auxerre's fortune. When rivers were the only viable means of transport in Europe, a good navigable river flowing towards interesting markets was the secret of wealth. Its town centre has a pedestrianized main square, timber-framed buildings and a 15th century tower with a richly-decorated 17th century clock. Cobblestone streets line the old quarter, and an open-air market beckons. Spires of three churches form an impressive skyline.
PARIS || The Oldest Public Clock
The Conciergerie Clock is the first public clock in Paris. It hangs on the Clock Tower of the Palais de la Cité since 1371. In 1585 it was enhanced with a multicoloured face and framed with allegories of the Law and Justice. After the French Revolution left it severely damaged, it was restored in 1849. The last restoration was completed in 2012.
There are 2 inscriptions above and below the clock. “Qui dedit ante duas triplicem dabit ille coronam”. (He who has already given two crowns will be given a third.) This refers to King Henri III (1551 – 1589) who was simultaneously king of Poland and France.
The second one says “Machina quae bis sex tam juste dividit horas, justitiam servare monet legesque tueri”. (This mechanism which divides time into perfectly equal twelve hours helps you protect justice and defend the law.)
The Conciergerie was the first Royal Palace built in the capital in the 14th century. It was converted into a prison in the 15th century. It was here that Marie-Antoinette was held before her execution.
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Inside the Belfry Clock Tower - Luminate Beaune, France
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Wandering around the city center of Beaune, France in the Burgundy Wine Region with my wife on our anniversary after dinner in September 2015, we discovered the incredible moving images on this clock tower in Beaune's ancient city center. The moving art projection is of a cat chasing a sphere of light, that then morphs into a stairwell on the outside of the clock tower.
The moving art continues to change from falling bricks, the moving clocks, then to the inside of the clocks, back to the cat chasing a sphere, and finally a rich blue silhouette of the clock tower it self.
The unexpected discovery filled us with wonder, curiosity, and an instant appreciation for the unconditional human drive to create and share. Beaune apparently does this every summer, and it is brilliant.
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The Belfry - On these slender walls, you’ll find the famous Chronophotography of a cat in free-fall by Etienne-Jules Marey, physician and physiologist born in Beaune in 1830, considered one of the precursors of cinema. The façade then opens onto clock faces symbolizing time’s acceleration.
Beaune in Images and Lights » will present huge images projected onto 7 major historical buildings : the Church of Notre Dame, the Hospices, the Clock Tower, the Chapel of Saint Etienne, the Wine Museum, the Rampart des Dames, and the Porte Marie de Bourgogne. Lights clearly marking the trail to be followed will link the buildings to one another and will escort visitors as they discover Beaune. In the historical centre, the trail will be marked by more than 150 changing colored lights, which will be programmed differently according to the season; 30 historical buildings and rampart bastions will also be lit up. - See more at:
Auxerre France • Explore Enchanting Auxerre and its Magnificent Cathedral | European Waterways
During our cruise we visit the medieval city of Auxerre France. Originally the capital of Lower Burgundy, the town prides itself on its lavish Renaissance houses, fine churches and particularly its magnificent cathedral situated close to the river.
At the junction of the Canal du Nivernais and the River Yonne, Auxerre is a beautiful city and a pleasant port, with elegant buildings gracing its waterfront. Auxerre was an important spiritual center and a big market town for timber and wine.
The River Yonne made Auxerre's fortune. When rivers were the only viable means of transport in Europe, a good navigable river flowing towards interesting markets was the secret of wealth. Its town center has a pedestrianized main square, timber-framed buildings and a 15th century tower with a richly-decorated 17th century clock.
Cobblestone streets line the old quarter, and an open-air market beckons. Spires of three churches form an impressive skyline. The Gothic Cathédral St-Étienne was completed in 1560, taking over three centuries to build. The interior is lit up by 13th century stained glass. Flying buttresses lend support and architectural interest. The Musée St-Germain houses an exhibition of Gallo-Roman finds. It occupies a 12th century abbey founded by the wife of the first Christian king of France. The crypts are decorated with the oldest frescoes in France (9th century).
Paris to Auxerre
The waterways taken from Paris to Auxerre are the rivers Seine and Yonne. The River Seine rises in Burgundy and winds northwest through the Ile-de-France. The Seine flows through the heart of Paris dividing the Left Bank, south of the Seine, from the Right Bank, north of the Seine.
From Paris the Seine flows northwest through a farmland region and past Rouen to the port of Le Havre, where it empties into the English Channel. It has been an important commercial waterway since Roman times and has figured significantly in the histories of Paris, Rouen, and Le Havre.
Through its main tributaries, the Marne, Aube, Loing, Yonne and Oise rivers, and canals linking it to the Loire, Rhine, and Rhône rivers, it is possible to get to Paris from the Atlantic, from Belgium and Holland, from Germany, or even from the Mediterranean.
The canalized River Yonne, feeding into the Paris basin, is one of the most important rivers in Burgundy. The Yonne extends from Auxerre, where it joins the Canal du Nivernais, to its confluence with the Seine at Montereau. It begins its journey in the central granite highlands of the Morvan Natural Park traveling through Clamecy to Auxerre, Joigny and on to Sens before flowing into the Seine.
The Nivernais Canal
The Nivernais Canal (111 miles - 119 locks) passes through western Burgundy, crossing the Yonne Valley and from time to time merging with the Yonne River itself. North of the summit at Baye, the River Yonne serves as a navigation channel for most of the way between Auxerre and Clamecy.
Where the canal is artificial, the Yonne serves as a feeder. Opened in 1843 after sixty years of chaotic work, the Nivernais Canal was built to transport firewood from the Morvan forests to Paris. From the 16th century, the Yonne was used for flottage de bois, i.e., a system for floating logs. As the firewood demands increased, there was a need to transport logs from further away.
The Nivernais Canal was first proposed in 1708 but abandoned due to opposition from the Duke of Orléans who, not coincidentally, was proprietor of the nearby Loing Canal. At the end of the 18th century, a project was started to extend the floatable part of the river towards the forests of Bazois by building a little channel under the hills of Collancelle.
However, since this was the era of canals, instead of a small channel for floating timber, a navigable canal was built. Work started in 1784 (based on a plan devised in the 17th century) and was finally completed in 1841. The wood trade was the region's main source of income until the 1920's, even though timber had to be carried on barges when flottage was outlawed in 1881.
Although originally built for commercial use, the canal saw the last of its merchant traffic in the 1970's. A shallow draft and small gauge locks limit the size of barges that can use it.
Now the Nivernais Canal is known for its peacefulness, its beautiful valleys and hills, and its historic and picturesque villages and vineyards. Its path through the hills of Morvan, the wild valley of the Yonne, and the green meadows of Bazois makes it one of the most beautiful canals in France. For canal enthusiasts, the Nivernais is a showcase for a great variety of lock gates and paddle gear.
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Places to see in ( Auxerre - France ) Cathedrale Saint Etienne
Places to see in ( Auxerre - France ) Cathedrale Saint Etienne
Auxerre Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Auxerre, Burgundy, France. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Stephen, and is known for its large stained glass windows. Most of the Burgundian Gothic cathedral was built between 1215 and 1233, above an 11th-century crypt. Construction continued until the 1540s when the cupola, in Renaissance style that takes the place of one pinnacle on the completed tower, was completed. The first building campaign erected the chevet at the liturgical east end, followed later in the century by a new façade and the bases of new towers at the west end (still linked to the apse end by the nave of the old cathedral). Construction on the nave and transepts proceeded slowly throughout the 14th and 15th centuries.
The narrative sculptural program of the portals on the west end are noted for their extent and variety. Guillaume de Seignelay, bishop of Auxerre decided to undertake the reconstruction of the older edifice about 1215, to which he set an example by contributing heavily and consistently from his own resources, and even bequeathed funds after his transfer to the see of Paris in 1220. The chevet was completed by his successor, Henri de Villeneuve (1220–34); he left 1000 livres for the project, but construction slowed after his death, hampered by a dearth of funds.
Stimulus was provided about 1270 by Jean de Châlons-Rochefort, who had recently become Count of Auxerre, having supported the Duke of Burgundy against his own brother, by marrying Alix, the heiress of Auxerre. He was the largest fief-holder in the Duchy and commemorated the new status of his fief of Auxerre by enriching the front of its chief ornament, the cathedral, whose Carolingian nave had been erected by his ancestor Hugh de Châlons, 10th-century bishop of Auxerre. Its program of sculpture was carried through long after his death and completed in the early 15th century.
Auxerre was formerly an important diocese in Gaul, with a bishop as early as the 3rd century; the diocese was suppressed in 1821. A council held at Auxerre in 585 (or 578) under bishop Annacharius formulated forty-five canons, closely related in context to canons of the contemporary first and second Councils of Lyon and the Council of Mâcon. They are important as illustrating life and manners among the newly-converted Teutonic tribes and the Gallo-Romans of the time, the Catholic Encyclopedia asserts. Many of the decrees were directed against remnants of paganism and non-Christian customs; others bore witness to the persistence in the early Middle Ages in France of certain ancient Christian customs. The canons of the council of 695 or 697 were concerned chiefly with the Divine Office and ecclesiastical ceremonies.
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Cathédrale St-Etienne d'Auxerre
Nous avons quitter la campagne pendant 3 jours pour nous rendre au Catalpa Festival à Auxerre ! (dans l'Yonne )
Nous avons donc visité le centre ville et c'est en fuyant la chaleur de la canicule que nous avons visité la cathédrale St-Etienne d'Auxerre ! Vu qu'il y fessai bon, j'ai pris le temps de filmer l'intérieur !
Appartement Auxerre Centre Ville, Auxerre, France HD review
Located in the historic centre of Auxerre, Appartement Auxerre Centre Ville offers free WiFi. The property is 985 feet from Auxerre clock tower and 2,625 feet from St Germain Abbey.
Accommodation will provide you with a seating area with a sofa bed, and a removable partition allows you to separate the bedroom and seating area. There is a full kitchen with a dishwasher and a microwave. Featuring a bath, private bathrooms also come with a hairdryer, a hair straightener and free toiletries.
At Appartement Auxerre Centre Ville you will find bookshelves with books, comics and guides. Other facilities like water sports facilities are offered. Activities in the surrounding area include cycling and hiking. The property offers free parking.
If you feel like visiting the surroundings, check out Abbé Deschamps Stadium (1.1 miles) and Auxerre Train Station (0.8 miles). Free parking is available close by.
Check-out is a relaxed 12:00 PM, so you can sleep in and really enjoy that morning cup o' joe.
You can also enjoy a ton of FREE perks during your stay, like Wi-Fi and parking.
The M.S. Anacoluthe docked at Auxerre on the Yonne River, France
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Auxerre is the fourth largest city in Burgundy and was a stop along the Yonne River on our barge trip on the M.S. Anacoluthe.
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Kathmandu Clock Tower Lights Up with Colours of French Flag
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Chiang Rai Clock Tower
The Clock Tower in Chiang Rai, Thailand is a popular attraction. In the evening you get to see a colourful light display with accompanying Thai music. Sorry about the quality it was taken from a phone.
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Auxerre France ville touristique de la bourgogne
Auxerre centre ville ,bord de l'yonne