autun

Autun, gallo - Roman city in Burgundy, was the capital of the éduenne town. Classic Augustodunum, nicknamed «sister and emulator of Rome «is a city of art and history today. The town stages terrace and opens on the valley of Arroux. To visit Autun, is to rediscover 2000 years of history with its bimillenear monuments: Roman theatre, Janus's temple, doors of Arroux and St - André, ramparts, Pierre de Couhard. Autun also presents numerous animations as the " Augostudunum, the journey of Murcie " spectacle presented in the prestigious frame of the Roman theatre, visits night-spectacles which go to the discovery of the historic centre together with a guide speaker with comedians and musicians, the animations of the cathedral Saint - Lazare... This building shelters under its Gothic arrow some of the chefs d'œuvre of the Burgundian Romanic art. The leisure centre of the city offers multiple activities: sailing, drifter, canoe kayak, pedal boats, mountain bike mini-golf, golf, tracks of roller...

Conducted tour of the city and the gallo - Roman vestiges: Janus's temple, Pierre de Couhard, ramparts, Saint André and Arroux's doors.
In July / August, numerous animations: Tours with greedy cycles, visits, night-spectacles, visits with subjects... Schedule in the Office of Tourism. Small tourist train: discovery of the city and its monuments (from the end of June to the end of August). Cathedrale St-Lazare: (surmounted of a Gothic arrow). Famous Romanic sculptures, capitals, eardrum of Last Judgment sculptured by Gislebertus. Roman theatre: the vastest of the Roman Gaulle. Cross of liberation: panorama on Autun, the valleys of Arroux, the Ground and mountains of Morvan.
Museum of Natural history: minerals, fossils, birds. II possesses the second world collection of the period of the forming of the coal (Collection Sotty: a single equivalent in the world, in the U.S.A: collections of Carboniferous Mazon Creek) and a collection of the geologic era of «stratotype of Autunien ". Information: tel., 03 85 52 09 15.
Museum Rolin: gallo - Roman collections, sculptures and mosaics. Late antiquity and high Middle Age, Romanic art, XV-th century, through paintings among which the chief works are "Eve" and the «birth of the lord of mills ". Collection of French paintings. Informations; tel. 03 85 52 09 76