Côte-d'Or
Côte-d'Or (; literally, "Golden Slope") is a département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of Northeastern France. In 2019, it had a population of 534,124.department in eastern France. The politician François Patriat, the engineers Edmé Régnier L'Aîné (1751–1825) and
Émile Dorand
Jean-Baptiste Émile Dorand (14 May 1866 – 1 July 1922), was a French military engineer and aircraft designer.
Early career
Émile Dorand was born in Semur-en-Auxois in eastern France. He attended the École Polytechnique from 1886 to 1888 ...
Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard
Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard also Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard (2 April 1720 – 28 November 1785) was an eighteenth-century French lawyer, writer, naturalist, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie''.
Biography
The son of the arist ...
(1720–1785) were born in Semur-en-Auxois, while the military engineer Vauban (1633–1707) was educated at the
Carmelite
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, caption = Coat of arms of the Carmelites
, abbreviation = OCarm
, formation = Late 12th century
, founder = Early hermits of Mount Carmel
, founding_location = Mount Ca ...
college.
Semur-en-Auxois has a medieval core, built on a pink
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained ( phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies un ...
bluff more than half-encircled by the River
Armançon
The river Armançon () drains part of north-western Burgundy in France. It is long. It rises at Meilly-sur-Rouvres in the department of Côte-d'Or and flows into the Yonne (right bank) at Migennes. Its source is at about above sea level and i ...
. The river formerly provided motive power for tanneries and mills, but its flow is now somewhat reduced by the Lac de Pont. The dam was built upstream in the 19th century to provide water for the Canal de Bourgogne.
Sport
Semur-en-Auxois was the start of Stage 6 in the
2007 Tour de France
The 2007 Tour de France the 94th running of the race, took place from 7 to 29 July. The Tour began with a prologue in London, and ended with the traditional finish in Paris. Along the way, the route also passed through Belgium and Spain. It was ...
Cranleigh
Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England. It lies on a minor road east of the A281, which links Guildford with Horsham. It is in the north-west corner of the Weald, a large remnant forest, the m ...
in
Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in South East England, bordering Greater London to the south west. Surrey has a large rural area, and several significant ur ...
, UK ''(since 2008)''
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Laigueglia
Laigueglia (; lij, L'Aigheuja, ) is a town and '' comune'' in the province of Savona, in Liguria (northern Italy in 1812), nearby the Capo Mele Lighthouse.
International relations
Twin towns – Sister cities
Laigueglia is twinned with:
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in Italy
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Höhr-Grenzhausen
Höhr-Grenzhausen () is a town in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a centre for the ceramic industry in the Kannenbäckerland with a professional college for ceramics, another for ceramic form, and many others, hence the ...
in Germany
Population
Sights
*The church, La Collégiale Notre-Dame, was started in 1225 and built in flamboyant Gothic style. It was restored in the 19th century by Viollet-le-Duc. The north tympanum depicts the legend of St. Thomas.
*La porte Sauvigny, built in the 15th century, marks the entrance to the city
*The fortified castle, built in the 13th century and dismantled in the 17th century. Parts visible today are:
**La tour de l'Orle d'Or, with a height of 44 metres and walls 5 metres thick
**La tour de la Gehenne
**La tour de la Prison
**La tour Margot, behind the theatre.
*Bridges of the city crossing the
Armançon
The river Armançon () drains part of north-western Burgundy in France. It is long. It rises at Meilly-sur-Rouvres in the department of Côte-d'Or and flows into the Yonne (right bank) at Migennes. Its source is at about above sea level and i ...
:
**Le pont Joly, which provides a picturesque view of the city
**Le pont Pinard
**Le pont des Minimes
*The ramparts provide a promenade with views of the river
See also
* The
Sinemurian
In the geologic timescale, the Sinemurian is an age and stage in the Early or Lower Jurassic Epoch or Series. It spans the time between 199.3 ± 2 Ma and 190.8 ± 1.5 Ma (million years ago). The Sinemurian is preceded by the Hettangian and ...
Age of the
Jurassic
The Jurassic ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The Jurassic constitutes the middle period of ...
Period of geological time is named for Semur-en-Auxois
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