Coordinates: 47°01′30″N 4°50′23″E
Our driver, John, took us to Beaune, the wine center of Burgundy. And when you are in the capital of the wine country, what do you do? Why, you go to a centuries old former monestary and experience the thrill of a genuine wine tasting before being served one of the most delicious dinners you could imagine!
After meeting our charming hosts, we were off for a twilight tour of Beaune - a restful and quaint city tucked into the vineyards of France. For our wine-tasting/ dinner, we were led to the Abbey de la Maziere.
The restaurant was accessed via the basement. The setting is old stone, with the buildings dating from the 13th Century or earlier. NOTE: As charming as it is, the restaurant has a VERY low stone archway.
Beaune is a simple, almost pure, country spot that is quiet,
peaceful and filled with nothing but green grass and miles of blue skies.
Everything was quaint and although modern enough, you could easily feel that you had slipped back a few hundred years. Every where you looked you saw cottages, basic artisian works and a calmness that modern civilization seems to have forgotten ever existed.
Several of us visited a rather unique museum - Well Hospices de Beaune - where the chief attraction was a beautiful and quite breath taking series of hand painted panels titled, The Polyptych of the Last Judgment, by Rogier van der Weyden.
After meeting our charming hosts, we were off for a twilight tour of Beaune - a restful and quaint city tucked into the vineyards of France. For our wine-tasting/ dinner, we were led to the Abbey de la Maziere.
The restaurant was accessed via the basement. The setting is old stone, with the buildings dating from the 13th Century or earlier. NOTE: As charming as it is, the restaurant has a VERY low stone archway.
Beaune is a simple, almost pure, country spot that is quiet,
peaceful and filled with nothing but green grass and miles of blue skies.
Everything was quaint and although modern enough, you could easily feel that you had slipped back a few hundred years. Every where you looked you saw cottages, basic artisian works and a calmness that modern civilization seems to have forgotten ever existed.
Several of us visited a rather unique museum - Well Hospices de Beaune - where the chief attraction was a beautiful and quite breath taking series of hand painted panels titled, The Polyptych of the Last Judgment, by Rogier van der Weyden.