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Country
  
France

Arrondissement
  
Sens

Population (2006)
  
611

Local time
  
Tuesday 9:25 AM

Department
  
Yonne

Canton
  
Cerisiers

Area
  
27.02 km²

Arces-Dilo

Region
  
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Weather
  
5°C, Wind S at 24 km/h, 85% Humidity

Arces-Dilo is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.

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Map of 89320 Arces-Dilo, France

Sights

The commune of Arces Dilo was formed in 1977 by the union of the former communes of Arces and Dilo.

Arces

  • The eighteenth-century church of Saint-Michel, with a Tuscan vault and a tower in the style of Soufflot. The patron saints of the church are St. Ebbon and St. Michel.
  • The Cross of St. Ebbon
  • The Well of St. Ebbon, formerly believed to be able to cure fevers

    • Dilo

    (Deilocus "a place dedicated to God")

    Dilo owes its origin to a Premonstratensian abbey (the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Dilo) founded in 1132 and enriched by many generous donations. The monks there developed an iron and steel works. During his exile in France to Pontigny, Thomas Becket (called St. Thomas of Canterbury) stayed at Dilo, where he consecrated the church in 1168.

    The Chapel of Saint-Cartault, blessed and dedicated to worship in 1692, in the oldest parish church.

    Personalities

  • Odo of Villemaur
  • Aelis Comtesse de Nevers (widow of the Comte de Joigny Renard IV). Buried in the abbey church of Dilo, his tomb is now in the church of Joigny.

    • References

    Arces-Dilo Wikipedia
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