Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France

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Number of sights 14 sights
Distance 6.8 km
Ascend 80 m
Descend 94 m

Explore Bourg-en-Bresse in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Bourg-en-Bresse

Sight 1: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur

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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a basilica in Bourg-en-Bresse, built in the railway station district. It is dedicated to the Sacred Heart and belongs to the diocese of Belley-Ars.

Wikipedia: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

1415 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 2: Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine

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The Sainte-Madeleine chapel is located in the commune of Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain department in France.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

120 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Monument à Edgar Quinet

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Monument à Edgar Quinet Marcel Mayer / CC BY 3.0

The Monument to Edgar Quinet is a sculpture 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 figure. 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)

29 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 4: Monument de la Victoire

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The war memorial in Bourg-en-Bresse is a memorial located in Bourg-en-Bresse in the French department of Ain.

Wikipedia: Monument aux morts de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

368 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Hôtel Marron de Meillonnas

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The Hotel Marron de Meillonnas is a house located in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the Ain department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Marron de Meillonnas (FR)

224 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Porte des Jacobins

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The Porte des Jacobins is a monument originally part of the former convent of the Jacobins, in Bourg-en-Bresse in the department of Ain.

Wikipedia: Porte des Jacobins (FR)

112 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Maison au 30 rue de la République

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The Maison du 30 rue de la République is a house located in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the department of Ain, at 30 rue de la République, at the intersection with the impasse Littré.

Wikipedia: Maison au 30 rue de la République (Bourg-en-Bresse) (FR)

381 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 8: Musée de la Mécanographie

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Musée de la Mécanographie

The Museum of Mechanography is a museum dedicated to the mechanography, and therefore to old typewriters, calculating and accounting, located in Bourg-en-Bresse, in Ain.

Wikipedia: Musée de la mécanographie de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

1239 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 9: De l'en-dessous

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De l'en-dessous

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

Wikipedia: De l'en-dessous (FR)

100 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Monastère Royal de Brou

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Monastère Royal de Brou Welleschik / CC BY-SA 3.0

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)

10 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: Musée municipal de Bourg-en-Bresse

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Musée municipal de Bourg-en-BresseJochen Jahnke 10:02, 9. Aug. 2007 (CEST) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Municipal Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse, also known as the Brou Museum, is a museum founded in 1854. It has been housed in one of the wings of the second of the three cloisters of the Royal Monastery of Brou since 1922. It has a rich collection of paintings, especially Flemish and French, from the fifteenth century to modern art. Sculpture is also represented, especially ancient religious sculpture. The museum's main collection consists of 120 paintings donated in the mid-19th century by Thomas Riboud (1765-1835), a lawyer and deputy for the Ain department who saved the abbey from destruction and protected it as a national monument.

Wikipedia: Musée municipal de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

117 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 12: Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou

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

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

729 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 13: Apothicairerie de l'hôtel-Dieu

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The apothecary of the Hôtel-Dieu de Bourg-en-Bresse is the former pharmacy of the former Hôtel-Dieu dating from the eighteenth century, converted into a museum and located in Bourg-en-Bresse in the Ain. Run by nuns, it closed for good in 1963.

Wikipedia: Apothicairerie de l'hôtel-Dieu de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

1984 meters / 24 minutes

Sight 14: Mosquée de Bourg-en-Bresse

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The El-Mouhsinine Mosque is a mosque located in Bourg-en-Bresse, Ain, France. It is better known in the city as the Mosque of the White Cross, the name of the street where it is located.

Wikipedia: Mosquée El-Mohssinine de Bourg-en-Bresse (FR)

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