Avallon
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Avallon is a town (French: commune) in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in central-eastern France.
Avallon is located 50 km south-southeast of Auxerre, served by a branch of the Paris-Lyon railway and by exit 22 of the A6 motorway. The old town, with many winding cobblestone streets flanked by traditional stone and woodwork buildings, is situated on a flat promontory, the base of which is washed on the south by the Cousin, on the east and west by small streams.
Its chief building, the formerly collegiate church of Saint-Lazare, dates from the twelfth century, on an earlier foundation dedicated to Notre Dame. Vestiges of the earlier church were revealed beneath the high altar in an excavation of 1861. The acquisition of a relic of Saint Lazare prompted its rededication: Saint Ladre is attested in the fourteenth century. It was the seat of an archdeaconate answering to the bishop of Autun.[citation needed] The two western portals are densely adorned with sculpture in the Romanesque style; the tower on the left of the facade was rebuilt in the seventeenth century. The Tour de l’Horloge, pierced by a gateway through which passes the Grande Rue, is an eleventh-century structure containing a museum on its second floor. Remains of the ancient fortifications, including seven of the flanking towers, are still to be seen. Avallon has a statue of Vauban, the military engineer of Louis XIV.
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Places Of Interest
Museum of Avallon
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Museum of Avallon 5 Rue du Collège, 89200 Avallon, France Phone: +33 3 86 34 03 19 The museum of Avallonnais-Jean Després is an archaeological museum, fine arts and ethnological Avallon in the department of Yonne in Burgundy-Franche-Comté administrative region , France. Tracing the local history, the Musée de l’Avallonais was born in 1862 from … Continue reading Museum of Avallon →
Saint-Lazare Church of Avallon
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Saint-Lazare Church of Avallon 15 Rue Bocquillot, 89200 Avallon, France Phone: +33 3 86 43 14 19 The church Saint – Lazare is the church of the city of Avallon in Burgundy . Its architecture is Romanesque and its portal dated xii th century . It is dedicated to Saint Lazarus One can recognize the … Continue reading Saint-Lazare Church of Avallon →