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Hotel Dieu, the old hospital, 2002
A lock on the Burgundy Canal
Corbusier Chapel in Ronchamp
"Last Judgement" left hand panelsBibracte is fascinating
Bibracte is a marvelous, open museum of Gaulish life set in a hillside that holds an archeological dig you may tour. Bibracte is near St. Leger however the museum is not in the town but on Mont Beuvray a few kilometers from the town.
The walls are all glass on the valley side of the building so as you walk through it, you can look out at the countryside where the people being depicted lived. There is also a very nice gift shop and in summer there is a cafe on the site. Off season you must bring a picnic or drive into town for lunch.
In the 2nd and 1st centuries BC at the end of the Iron Age, a large Gaulish town stood on Mont Beuvray. Surrounded by ramparts, Bibracte was the capital of one of the most powerful peoples in Gaul, the Aedui. It is here that Vercingetorix was proclaimed head of the Gaulish coalition in the year 52 BC. It is also at Bibracte that Julius Caesar, the victor of Alesia, completed the writing of his "Gallic wars" that you probably read in Latin class.
Click on the photo to see more pictures inside the museum.
If you like, you can look at my Virtual Tourist page on Bibracte under St. Leger at http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/7ba16/16446/4/
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