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Romanesque art
Southern Burgundy offers a concentration oof Ramanesque churches among the gretest in France. A good many saw their architecture influenced by the great Romanesque centres of Tournus and Cluny Bissy-la-mâconnaiseSurronded by typical Mâconnais houses, this late Romaneque church is preceed by a rustich porch. Massive tower and nave with beautiful apprent roof timbers. ChapaizeRemarkable 11th and 12th C. church . Imposing rectangular and pyramydal shaped tower, 35 meters high, decorated with Lombard bands. Except for the apse, the chrch belongs entirely to the “early Romanesque” period. Charnay-lès-MâconOriginally Romanesque, the church has been perfectly restored, although greatly altered. The nave, choir, apse and base of the tower date back to the 12th C. Clessé11th C. church, covered with lombar bands. Octagonal tower with fine 12th C. decoration. ClunyLaizéSeuls l’abside et le clocher sont romans. Curiosité : la partie haute du clocher a reçu une galerie de bois en encorbellement construite vers le XVème siècle pour servir de guet. MâconPéronne11th C. church. Original : the two square turrets to the north are built on the site of an ancient castle. It was here that Gontran, king of Burgundy during the 6th C., ordered that Sundays and Christian Feast Days should be compulsory days of rest. Sancé12th C. building with adjoining flaboyant Gothic chapel housing the magificient tombstone of a local lord. Interesting 19th C. wooden reredos. TournusThe abbey-church of Saint-Philibert remains the indisputed epitome of "early Romanesque Art" and the development of this style. The church has an austere façade, with two elegant 12th C. towers. The oldest parts of the nathex, surmounted by a chapel, ant the crypt. Thanks to the openings in the transverse barrel vaults and to the pink stone, the nave is exceptionnaly light for a Romanesque building. Recent discovery of Romanesque mosaics portraying part of the zodiac. Contemporary liturgical furniture by the master goldsmith Goudji. The cloisters, the chapter house, the refectory and the cellar complete the monsstery buildings.
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