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After a lovely morning marvelling at the Hospices de Beaune and a delicious lunch (of course!) we were suitably refreshed and ready for the next stage of our Beaune exploration.

This time we were heading underground!

Down into the depths of the largest wine cellars in Burgundy to be precise :)

The Caves Patriarche are made up of around 5 kilometres of tunnels underneath the centre of Beaune and they hold around 3 million bottles of wine!





Our tour was self-guided, which was a bit daunting at first but we were soon in the swing of navigating our way around dimly ...

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On our recent trip to France we took the opportunity to travel to a New to Me part of the country, with a couple of days in the lovely city of Beaune in Eastern France. Our weather on the way across was grey and miserable but, fortunately, our main day there was bright and sunny.

Our hotel, which was in a former wine-merchants house was only a few minutes walk from the Collegiale, Notre Dame de Baune so that was our first port of call on our day of discovery. The Basilica is best known for its collection of 15th ...

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