If you have a palate for fine wine you can fill your trip with memorable and educational trips to vineyards and caves. Both men are remembered with their own museums. But the main focus is on photography, with a collection of more than 1, cameras and three million photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries, developed with a range of processes.
The museum has a room dedicated to the man, documenting his career and displaying some of the engravings he made. The Neo-Gothic facade and two towers newish, dating to the s, but there are elements inside that go right the way back to the s. Burgundian Romanesque design can be seen in the more modest of the chapels, which have been decorated with medieval and Renaissance art, like a stunning fresco from the s.
Sheltered in this idyllic landscape are 44 wine villages, where winemakers grow mostly pinot noir and chardonnay grapes and ferment their wine in large oak barrels. There are 30 stops in all, and you can download a pdf from the website or pick up a leaflet from the office with descriptions of each stop. And as with similar institutions around France one of the most absorbing parts is the 18th-century pharmacy.
Get up close to see the strange ingredients that passed for medicine in days gone by, as well as alarming instruments from the s to the s. Place Saint-Vincent is almost completely filled with restaurant and bar terraces, and on three sides are timber-framed houses four storeys tall. These Renaissance buildings are delightfully irregular and the cantilevered upper floors almost hang over the square. Stop by on Friday and Sunday mornings for the weekly markets that have their roots in the early middle ages.
The inside still has its Italianate Baroque design, but the outside was given a Byzantine Revival makeover in the s. But the most compelling thing about the church the story of some of the people who were ordained here.
