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Pierres & Vie aims to make you discover and love the great cathedrals and small Romanesque churches, the cities and medieval towns which abound in Burgundy.

The latter testify to a Christian culture imbued with meaning and beauty. They tell us about the history of art and architecture and about the political, social and spiritual history of men and women who have left their mark in Bugundy and sometimes even in the France and Europe of their time.

Pierres & Vie takes you to Solutré on the traces of our prehistoric ancestors, to Bibracte with Eduens, to Alésia with Caesar and Vercingetorix and to the Gallo-Roman Augustudunum (Autun).

Pierres & Vie introduces you to the "Cities of Art and History" born in ancient times, and shows you how they developed during the Middle Ages and how the Renaissance enriched them. Punctuated by the monasteries of the Counter-Reformation, these cities were made ample by the urban planning of the Ancien Regime, and were finally marked by the Industrial Revolution and the creations of our time, such is what Pierres & Vie shows you.

Pierres & Vie makes you discover the priceless artistic treasures that lie in the many museums of Burgundy. From Bibracte to Dijon, to Alésia, to Autun, to Chalon and to Sens, you will admire the works of art and the objects designed by the knowledge and techniques of European culture.

With Pierres & Vie, you will encounter craftsmen and wine-growers who inherited their know-how from centuries of practice. They too partake in the heritage of Burgundy.

Pierres & Vie offers to introduce you to all these treasures in cultural escapades that it regularly organizes or to prepare a tailored circuit that suits your availability and your interests.