Nuits Saint Georges

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Country France Canton Nuits-Saint-Georges INSEE/Postal code 21464 /21700 Population 5,573 (1999) Arrondissement Beaune		Department Côte-d'Or Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area 20.5 km² Local time Tuesday 2:42 AM

Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Weather 9°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 72% Humidity Points of interest Côte de Nuits, Dufouleur Père & Fils, Musée de Nuits‑Saint‑Georges, Domaine Jafflin Earl

Nuits-Saint-Georges ([nɥi.sɛ̃.ʒɔʁʒ]) is a commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. It lies in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Map of 21700 Nuits-Saint-Georges, France

Wine

Nuits-Saint-Georges is the main town of the Côte de Nuits wine-producing area of Burgundy.

Nuits-Saint-Georges was the site of the traditional Burgundian festival, la Saint-Vincent-Tournante, in 2007. It is a festival that celebrates the wine of a different Burgundian village each year.

Stone

The local marble is a sedimentary rock, a limestone, 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 Nevers, which has made the reputations of the quarries of the region. The stone will harmonize with any style by virtue of the variety of its shades of colour, the pink of bindweed (Convolvulus) and beige, and its grain.

History

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

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.

Les Bolards is an archaeological site of a trading, crossroads town from the Gallo-Roman period.

The municipal belfry was built in 1610.

The church of Saint Symphorien was built in the 13th century. It amalgamates the Romanesque with the Gothic and contains an early carillon. In 2005, it is closed for renovation. (Details of the saint appear 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 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.