Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Bourg-en-Bresse, France
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6.8 km
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-BresseSight 1: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur
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.
Sight 2: Chapelle Sainte-Madeleine
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)
Sight 3: Monument à Edgar Quinet
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.
Sight 4: Monument de la Victoire
The war memorial in Bourg-en-Bresse is a memorial located in Bourg-en-Bresse in the French department of Ain.
Sight 5: Hôtel Marron de Meillonnas
The Hotel Marron de Meillonnas is a house located in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the Ain department.
Sight 6: Porte des Jacobins
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.
Sight 7: Maison au 30 rue de la République
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)
Sight 8: 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)
Sight 9: 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.
Sight 10: Monastère Royal de Brou
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.
Sight 11: Musée municipal de Bourg-en-Bresse
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.
Sight 12: Église Saint-Nicolas-de-Tolentin de Brou
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).
Sight 13: Apothicairerie de l'hôtel-Dieu
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)
Sight 14: Mosquée de Bourg-en-Bresse
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.
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