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La Charité sur Loire
and its surroundings...
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La Charité
sur Loire
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La
Charité sur Loire,
is an historic city and a major site of Burgundian Romanesque
art, today scheduled as part of Unesco world heritage, as
a renowned stopping place along the road to Saint-Jacques
de Compostelle.
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To
know more...
In the old days named Seyr : City in the Sun according
to a Phoenician etymology, it has numerous remnants of medieval
art : ramparts the origin of which goes back to 1164, Clunisian
priory Church Our Lady, Tower of the parish Church Holy cross
erected in the 12th century, etc...
Nowadays , La Charité sur Loire is the
delight of lovers of old books owing to its numerous second-hand
book sellers. White wines (Chardonnay and Sauvignon vine)
and red ones (Pinot noir and Gamay), "Côteaux Charitois" are
produced there, as well... |
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In the surroundings
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24
kms away to the south, Nevers,
capital of the Nivernais distric, but of fine crockery too.
You will be able to discover its, Palais ducal, with its early
Renaissance architecture, its cathedral St Cyr and St Juliette,
the porte du croux and so on..., and without forgetting speed
lovers : the circuit of Magny Cours. |
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13
kms away to the north, Pouilly
sur Loire,
a small town famous for its vineyards (about 1105 hectares),
vinegrowers of white wine "Pouilly fumé" (Sauvignon vine)",
"Pouilly sur Loire" (Chasselas vine) and red ones with a typical
tang of soil... |
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24
kms away to the north-west, Sancerre,
a small town famous all over the world for its vineyards (about
2350 hecatres), for its very valued white wine (Sauvignon
vine) red and rode (Pinot noir vine).
Sancerre next to Chavignol is famous for its tasty "crottins
de Chavignol" (goat cheese crottins)... |
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A little
further away...
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50
kms away to the west, Bourges,
the capital of the Cher district : important gothic cathedral (1195-1255),
Hotel Jacques Coeur (15th century). Bourges was the residence of the
king of France Charles VII in the 12th century... |
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75
kms away in the east, on the border of the Morvan and at the top of
a hill, Vézelay
: an important stopping place on the road to Compostelle, Romanesque
basilica St Madeleine (old abbey church)… |
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