Places to visit in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
7 places to visit in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Citadel of Besançon, Fontenay Abbey, Notre-Dame du Haut and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume.
5 UNESCO World Heritage sites · 1 Famous place to visit · 1 Hidden gem
UNESCO World Heritage sites in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (5)
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Citadel of Besançon
A 17th century fortress by Vauban covering 11 hectares on Mount Saint-Etienne, on the neck of land where the river Doubs loops around the old town. Its ramparts look over the city, and inside are museums and a small zoo.
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Fontenay Abbey
A Cistercian abbey founded by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in 1118, in a quiet wooded valley near Montbard. Almost all of it survives, church, cloister, dormitory, chapter house and the old forge, making it one of the most complete Cistercian abbeys in Europe.
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Notre-Dame du Haut
A hilltop chapel by Le Corbusier, built in 1955, with a curving concrete roof like an upturned hull and thick white walls pierced by small coloured windows. It is still a working chapel, and is listed by UNESCO among the architect's major works.
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Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
A royal saltworks built under Louis XVI and designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux as a semicircle of stone buildings around the director's house. It was meant as the heart of an ideal town, and is one of the first great works of industrial architecture.
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Vézelay Abbey
A hilltop Romanesque abbey church built between 1120 and 1150, now the Basilica of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine. Its carved capitals and portals are among the masterpieces of Burgundian art, and pilgrims have long set out from here on the road to Santiago de Compostela.
Famous places to visit in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1)
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Cluny Abbey
The remains of a Benedictine abbey that once led a network of monasteries across Western Europe. Its great church was the largest in Christendom until St Peter's in Rome was rebuilt, and a soaring fragment of its transept still stands over the town.
Hidden gems in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (1)
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Hospices de Beaune
A hospital for the poor founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and now a museum. Its courtyard roofs of glazed tiles in coloured geometric patterns have become the emblem of Burgundy, and the wines from its vineyards are sold each November at a charity auction.
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What are the best places to visit in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté?
LOQAH lists 7 places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The best known include Citadel of Besançon, Fontenay Abbey, Notre-Dame du Haut, Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans and Vézelay Abbey. Each has a stamp of its own to collect when you are there.
How many LOQAH stamps are there in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté?
7, and more are added over time. Each place has LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own.
How do I collect a stamp in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté?
Open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment; at the place itself the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge.
I have been to places in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté before. Can I add them?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline. Each one goes into your volume with the date, if you know it.
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