Saint-Seine-l'Abbaye () is a commune in the

Côte-d'Or Côte-d'Or () is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.

department in eastern

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. It is also a place steeped in history with its

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s, the goddess

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; nymph Sources close to the

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and Alesia, the remnants of its ancient abbey (the Abbey of Saint-Seine) and the abbey church, a jewel of Gothic art primitive Burgundy and its rich rural heritage: the 1856 school converted into a

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, flower laundries, foundries, crucifixes, mills. The abbey was founded by Saint Sequanus in the 6th century.

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