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Saint Claude, Jura

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Country
  
France

Arrondissement
  
Saint-Claude

Intercommunality
  
Val de Bienne

Local time
  
Tuesday 6:21 PM

Department
  
Jura

Canton
  
Saint-Claude

Area
  
36.67 km²

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Region
  
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Weather
  
16°C, Wind NW at 11 km/h, 48% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Musée de l'Abbaye, Musée de la Pipe et du Diamant, Cascade De La Queue D, Cascade des Combes

Saint-Claude ([sɛ̃klod]) is a commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

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Map of 39200 Saint-Claude, France

The town was originally named Saint-Oyand after Saint Eugendus. However, when St. Claudius had, in 687, resigned his Diocese of Besançon and had died, in 696, as twelfth abbot, the number of pilgrims who visited his grave was so great that, since the thirteenth century, the name "Saint-Claude" came more and more into use and has to-day superseded the other.

Sights

Saint-Claude Cathedral, former seat of the Bishops of Saint-Claude, is located here.

Personalities

  • Nadir Belhadj, footballer
  • Suzanne Belperron (1900-1983), jewelry designer
  • Angelique Boyer, actress
  • Mevlüt Erdinç, footballer
  • Alexis Vuillermoz, cyclist
  • Maud Forget, actress
  • References

    Saint-Claude, Jura Wikipedia