9 Sights in Bourg-en-Bresse, France (with Map and Images)

The Church of Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou is a church that was part of the Royal Monastery of Brou, in Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain (France), which was built at the request of Margaret of Austria (1480-1530).

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou (FR)

The Royal Monastery of Brou is a religious complex located at Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain département, central France. Made out of monastic buildings in addition to a church, they were built at the beginning of the 16th century by Margaret of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. The complex was designed as a dynastic burial place in the tradition of the Burgundian Champmol and Cîteaux Abbey, and the French Saint-Denis. The church is known as the Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou in French.

Wikipedia: Royal Monastery of Brou (EN), Website

Philibert and Marguerite is a sculpture made by Richard Serra in 1985. The work, created following a public commission, is exhibited in the second of the three cloisters of the royal monastery of Brou, allowing access to the municipal museum of Bourg-en-Bresse. The name of the work refers to Margaret of Austria who was at the origin of the creation of the royal monastery, intended to house the body of her late husband Philibert II of Savoy.

Wikipedia: Philibert et Marguerite (FR)

The Château de Pennesuyt or Château de Loëze is an old fortified house of the fourteenth century rebuilt in the sixteenth century, center of the lordship of "Painessuyt", located in Bourg-en-Bresse, France

Wikipedia: Château de Pennesuyt (FR)

The Monument to Edgar Quinet is a sculpture made by Marcel Mayer, inaugurated in the Square des Quinconces in Bourg-en-Bresse in November 1970. It is dedicated to Edgar Quinet, a native of Bourg-en-Bresse, and includes a bust of the character. It follows a first Monument to Edgar Quinet, a work by Aimé Millet inaugurated in the Square des Quinconces in 1883, and destroyed in 1942 by the Vichy regime, as part of the mobilization of non-ferrous metals.

Wikipedia: Monument à Edgar Quinet (FR)

De l'en-dessous is a contemporary sculpture made in 1986 by Michel Gérard and installed outside the Royal Monastery of Brou, in the Brou Park, in Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain region of France. Its FRAC inventory number is 10 475.

Wikipedia: De l'en-dessous (FR)

The former prefecture of Ain is a building that housed the headquarters of the prefecture of the department of Ain when it was created. Located in Bourg-en-Bresse near the town hall, the building houses the city's services.

Wikipedia: Ancien hôtel de préfecture de l'Ain (FR)

The co-cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation in Bourg-en-Bresse, for a long time the only parish church of the Burgiens after the suppression of the parish of Saint-Pierre, was from 1515 to 1534 the seat of the short-lived diocese of Bourg. It was classified as a historical monument on 21 December 1914. It was erected as a co-cathedral of the diocese of Belley-Ars in 1992. Renovation work has been underway since 2024.

Wikipedia: Co-cathédrale Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

The Maison forte de Villon is an old fortified house of the fourteenth century, center of the seigneury of Villion which stands in the commune of Villeneuve in the department of Ain in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Wikipedia: Maison-forte de Villon (FR)