NUITS-SAINT-GEORGES

'Nuits-Saint-Georges' is a town and commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or ''département'', in France. It lies in the Burgundy ''région''.

Contents

Wine

Stone

History

Administration

Demography

Sites and monuments

Miscellaneous

People connected with the commune

See also

Reference

External links

Books to read

Wine

Nuits-Saint-Georges is the main town of the Côte de Nuits wine-producing area of Burgundy. Map of the vineyards and descriptions (Click on the map to enlarge it).
Nuits-Saint-Georges was the site of the traditional Burgundian festival, ''la Saint-Vincent-Tournante'', in 2007. It is a festival that celebrates the wine of a different Burgundian village each year.^[1]

Stone

The local marble is a sedimentary rock, a limestone which is not susceptible to frost damage. It is fine-grained and capable of accepting a polish. There is a vein of this stone, called popularly, "the ''Comblanchien''", extending from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Nevers, which has made the reputations of the quarries of the region. The stone, by the variety of its shades of colour, the pink of bindweed (''Convolvulus'') and beige and its grain will harmonize with any style.

History

The town owes much to the economic development arising from Cistercian enterprise.

Administration

Mayors

Mandate	Name	Party	Background
March 2001-2007	M. Xavier Dufouleur
''Earlier data are not yet available.''

The Town Council (Click on ''Equipe municipale'').

Demography

Demographic development

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999
4059	4386	5063	5459	5569	5573
Figures returned since 1962 : Population without duplication

Sites and monuments

★ A short distance to the east is the Citeaux Abbey, the mother house of the Cistercian order of monks. It was founded in 1098 and has, over the years much influenced Nuits-Saint-Georges.

★ They built the Château du Clos Vougeot and the nearby villages of Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux and Saint-Bernard.

★ Les Bolards is an archaeological site of a trading, crossroads town from the Gallo-Roman period.

★ The municipal belfry was built in 1610

★ The church of Saint Symphorien was built in the 13th century. It amalgamates the Romanesque with the Gothic and contains an early carillon. In 2005, it is closed for renovation. (Details of the saint appear here.)

★ In the Church of Saint Denis, there is a fine organ by Aristide Cavaillé, a great organ builder of the 19th century who built those of Notre Dame in Paris.

★ The Hôpital Saint-Laurent dates in origin from 1634 but the buildings are late 17th century. It has retained its hospital vocation which it supports by the annual sale of the products of its vineyards.

★ The Château d'Entre-Deux-Monts is a private property but open each September for the ''journées du Patrimoine'', heritage days.

Miscellaneous

Nuits-Saint-Georges is a twin town of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom.

People connected with the commune

★ François Thurot (1727-1760), privateer.

★ Paul Cabet (1815-1876), sculptor.

★ Félix Tisserand (1845-1896), astronomer.

★ Maurice Boitel (1919), French painter.

★ Georges Faivelay and Camille Rodier, wine merchants, founders of the order of the knights of the Tastewine (''Chevaliers du Tastevin'')

See also

★ French wine

★ Route des Grands Crus

Reference

★ Click on (Tourisme) Patrimoine
1. http://www.saint-vincent-nuits.fr/

External links

★ Locating Nuits-Saint-Georges on a map of France

★ Cartographical information about Nuits-Saint-Georges In French.

★ The nearest communes to Nuits-Saint-Georges In French.

★ Plan of Nuits-Saint-Georges on Mapquest

Books to read

Both in French.

★ ''Nuits-Saint-Georges en Bourgogne'', edited by the town of Nuits-Saint-Georges.

★ ''Lames de sang : La vie exemplaire de François Thurot'', by Camille Bailly. (Blades of Blood : The exemplary life of François Thurot).