Cluny

Few cities in Bourgogne–Franche-Comté have a history as closely tied to Benedictine monasticism as Cluny. Founded in 910, Cluny Abbey became the centre of a far-reaching monastic network and a major force in medieval western Christianity. The surviving transept of its great Romanesque church, much of which was dismantled after the French Revolution, still signals the scale of the former complex. The town lies beside the Grosne in the gently rolling countryside of southern Burgundy, where Romanesque churches and vineyard country shape local routes. Move on to other webcams in Bourgogne–Franche-Comté to compare landscapes and settings around Cluny and southern Burgundy.

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