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Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a French wine Appellation d'origine contrôlée located around the village of Châteauneuf-du-Pape in the Rhône wine region in southeastern France. It is one of the most renowned appellations of the southern part in the Rhône Valley. Vineyards are located around Châteauneuf-du-Pape and in the neighboring villages Bédarrides, Courthézon and Sorgues between Avignon and Orange and cover slightly more than 3,200 hectares or 7,900 acres . Over 110,000 hectolitres of wine a year are produced here. More wine is made in this one area of southern Rhône than in the entirety of the northern Rhône region.
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  • 1. Château de Châteauneuf Chateauneuf
    Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The village lies about 3 kilometres to the east of the Rhône and 12 kilometres north of the town of Avignon. In the 2012 census the commune had a population of 2,179. A ruined medieval castle sits above the village and dominates the landscape to the south. It was built in the 14th century for Pope John XXII, the second of the popes to reside in Avignon. None of the subsequent Avignon popes stayed in Châteauneuf but after the schism of 1378 the antipope Clement VII sought the security of the castle. With the departure of the popes the castle passed to the archbishop of Avignon, but it was too large and too expensive to maintain and was used as a source of stone fo...
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  • 2. Eglise Saint-Jacques et Saint-Philippe Chateauneuf
    Heume-l'Église is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in Auvergne in central France. The village mainly consists of a collection of farmhouses, it is a small rural community with approx. 160 occupants. The word Eglise translates into church, there is a church in Heume l'Eglise which served as church for the entire rural community in the surrounding area.
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  • 3. Abbey of Cluny Cluny
    Cluny Abbey is a former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Saône-et-Loire, France. It was dedicated to St Peter. The abbey was constructed in the Romanesque architectural style, with three churches built in succession from the 4th to the early 12th centuries. The earliest basilica was the world's largest church until the St. Peter's Basilica construction began in Rome.Cluny was founded by William I, Duke of Aquitaine in 910. He nominated Berno as the first Abbot of Cluny, subject only to Pope Sergius III. The abbey was notable for its stricter adherence to the Rule of St. Benedict, whereby Cluny became acknowledged as the leader of western monasticism. The establishment of the Benedictine Order was a keystone to the stability of European society that was achieved in the 11th century. In 1790...
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  • 4. Abbaye de Fontenay Montbard
    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, and built in the Romanesque style. It is one of the oldest and most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe, and became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981. Of the original complex comprising church, dormitory, cloister, chapter house, caldarium, refectory, dovecote and forge, all remain intact except the refectory and are well maintained. The Abbey of Fontenay, along with other Cistercian abbeys, forms a connecting link between Romanesque and Gothic architectures.
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  • 5. Chateau de Savigny-les-Beaune Savigny Les Beaune
    Pagny-le-Château is a commune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. In 1999 its population was 491. The village is situated between Seurre and Saint-Jean-de-Losne, in the Val de Saône on the RD 976.
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  • 6. Le PAL Dompierre Sur Besbre
    Le pal is a French park that combines two activities: an amusement park and a zoo near the municipality area of Saint-Pourçain-sur-Bresbre, close to Dompierre-sur-Besbre, in the Allier, France. Created in 1973, the site became a theme park in 1981. With 86 acres it offers 25 attractions and more than 600 animals in semi-captivity, among several animal shows.
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  • 7. Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (La Saline Royale) Arc Et Senans
    The Saline Royale is a historical building at Arc-et-Senans in the department of Doubs, eastern France. It is next to the Forest of Chaux and about 35 kilometers from Besançon. The architect was Claude-Nicolas Ledoux , a prominent Parisian architect of the time. The work is an important example of an early Enlightenment project in which the architect based his design on a philosophy that favored arranging buildings according to a rational geometry and a hierarchical relation between the parts of the project. The Institut Claude-Nicolas Ledoux has taken on the task of conservator and is managing the site as a monument. UNESCO added the Salines Royales to its List of World Heritage Sites in 1982. Today, the site is mostly open to the public. It includes, in the building the coopers used, di...
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