Nuits-Saint-Georges () is a

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in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern

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. It lies in the

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...

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Wine

Nuits-Saint-Georges is the main town of the

Côte de Nuits The Côte de Nuits () is a French wine region located in the northern part of the Côte d'Or, the limestone ridge that is at the heart of the Burgundy wine region. It extends from Dijon to just south of Nuits-Saint-Georges, which gives its name to ...

wine-producing area of Burgundy. Nuits-Saint-Georges was the site of the traditional Burgundian

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, ''la Saint-Vincent-Tournante'', in 2007. It is a festival that celebrates the wine of a different Burgundian village each year.

Stone

The local

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is a sedimentary rock, a

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, that is not susceptible to frost damage. It is fine-grained and capable of accepting a polish. There is a vein of this stone, called popularly "the ''Comblanchien''" and extending from Nuits-Saint-Georges to

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, which has made the reputations of the

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of the region. The stone will harmonize with any style by virtue of the variety of its shades of colour, the pink of bindweed (''

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'') and

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, and its grain.

Sport

Stage 7 of the

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, finished here on the 7 July 2017. The stage was won by

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History

The town owes much to the economic development arising from Cistercians, Cistercian enterprise. The mayor of the town Franco de Martino brought them out of debt in 1905.

Administration

Population

Sights

* A short distance to the east is the Cîteaux Abbey, the mother house of the Cistercian order of monks. It was founded in 1098 and has, over the years much influenced Nuits-Saint-Georges. * They built the Château du Clos Vougeot and the nearby villages of Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux and Saint-Bernard, Côte-d'Or, Saint-Bernard. * Les Bolards is an archaeological site of a trading, crossroads town from the Gallo-Roman period. * The municipal Belfry (architecture), belfry was built in 1610. * The church of Saint Symphorien was built in the 13th century. It amalgamates the Romanesque architecture, Romanesque with the Gothic architecture, Gothic and contains an early carillon. In 2005, it is closed for renovation. (Details of the saint appea
here
) * In the church of Saint Denis, there is a fine organ by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, a great organ builder of the 19th century who built those of Notre Dame de Paris, Notre Dame in Paris. * The Hôpital Saint-Laurent dates in origin from 1634 but the buildings are late 17th century. It has retained its hospital vocation which it supports by the annual sale of the products of its vineyards. * The Château d'Entre-Deux-Monts is a private property but open each September for the ''journées du Patrimoine'', heritage days.

International relations

* Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom * Bingen am Rhein, Germany * Fuefuki, Yamanashi, Japan

Personalities

* François Thurot (1727-1760), privateer * Paul Cabet (1815–1876), Sculpture, sculptor * Félix Tisserand (1845–1896), astronomer * Maurice Boitel (1919–2007), French painters, French painter * Georges Domaine Faiveley, Faiveley and Camille Rodier, wine merchants, founders of the order of the knights of the Tastewine (''Chevaliers du Tastevin'') File:Nuits St Georges (France - Burgundy).jpg, Nuits-Saint-Georges December 2010 - St Symphorien church

References

(Tourisme) Patrimoine

Bibliography

Both in French. *''Nuits-Saint-Georges en Bourgogne'', edited by the town of Nuits-Saint-Georges. *''Lames de sang : La vie exemplaire de François Thurot'', by Camille Bailly. (''Blades of Blood : The exemplary life of François Thurot'').

External links

Official website of Nuits-Saint-Georges
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