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Heavenly Mansions
Heavenly Mansions
From the sober splendor of well-preserved Fontenay to the majestic ruins of Cluny and the isolated remains of Pontigny and Clairvaux, the abbeys, basilicas, and cathedrals of Burgundy evoke the region's storied past.
Reminders of medieval religious luminaries -- notably Thomas à Becket and Bernard of Clairvaux -- are everywhere, laying a mantle of history over the region.
Many of the region's greatest structures were built in the Romanesque style (11th-12th centuries) rather than the Gothic (13th-15th centuries) often prevalent elsewhere in France.
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