Semur-en-Auxois () is a commune of the

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 ...

(1866-1922), and the Encyclopédiste

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

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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 ...

International relations

Semur-en-Auxois is twinned with: *

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, UK ''(since 2008)'' *

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in Italy *

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in Germany

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*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

: **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

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