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.
- Where
- Beaune, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 47.0219, 4.8367
Get the Hospices de Beaune stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Hospices de Beaune. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume with your photos and a note.
Near Hospices de Beaune
Cluny Abbey 67 km
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.
Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans 71 km
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.
Fontenay Abbey 77 km
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.
Citadel of Besançon 93 km
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.
Vézelay Abbey 96 km
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.
CERN 127 km
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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum 133 km
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Palace of Nations 133 km
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Questions
Where is Hospices de Beaune?
Hospices de Beaune is in Beaune, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Cluny Abbey (67 km), Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (71 km), Fontenay Abbey (77 km).
How do I get the Hospices de Beaune stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Hospices de Beaune and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Hospices de Beaune before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Bourgogne-Franche-Comté volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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