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Beaune
Beane (Burgundian)
Subprefecture and commune
Hospices de Beaune
Hospices de Beaune
Coat of arms of Beaune
Coat of arms
Map
Location of Beaune
Beaune is located in France
Beaune
Beaune
Location within France
Beaune is located in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Beaune
Beaune
Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Coordinates: 47°01′30″N 4°50′23″E / 47.025°N 4.8397°E / 47.025; 4.8397
CountryFrance
RegionBourgogne-Franche-Comté
DepartmentCôte-d'Or
ArrondissementBeaune
CantonBeaune
IntercommunalityCA Beaune Côte et Sud
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Alain Suguenot[1]
Area
1
31.30 km2 (12.08 sq mi)
Elevation
219 m (719 ft)
Highest elevation
407 m (1,335 ft)
Lowest elevation
193 m (633 ft)
Population
 (2023)[2]
20,352
 • Density650.2/km2 (1,684/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
21054 /21200
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Beaune (French pronunciation: [bon] ⓘ; in Burgundian: Beane) is a town in eastern France and wine capital of Burgundy, in the Côte-d'Or department. It is between Lyon and Dijon. Beaune is a hub of Burgundy wine production and business.

The town is surrounded by the wine villages like Meursault and Puligny Montrachet, while the facilities and cellars of producers, large and small, are in the historic center of Beaune, as they have been since Roman times. It is an ancient town on a plain by the hills of the Côte d'Or, with features from pre-Roman and Roman eras through the medieval and Renaissance periods.

Beaune is a walled city, with much of the battlements, ramparts, and moat having survived in good condition. The central "old town" within the walls is extensive. Historically Beaune is intimately connected with the Dukes of Burgundy.

Attractions include the 15th-century Hospices de Beaune, in the town center. Other landmarks in Beaune include the old market (les Halles), the Beffroi (clock tower), and the collegiate church of Notre Dame. Beaune is the main center of the region's "Burgundian tile" polychrome Renaissance roofing style. Because of its historical importance in wine production and the system of terroir in the region, the town of Beaune was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2015 as part of the Climats, terroirs of Burgundy site.[3]

Origin, geography and climate

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The name "Beaune" derives from the Latinised Gaulish word "Belena", which was the name of a spring around which the settlement was established. That name in turn is derived from "Belen" or "Belenos", a god of fast-flowing water. A Roman fort was built there in the first century A.D. and it was already a wine-growing region in the 13th century.[4]

The town is served by a small river, the "Bouzaise" (or "Bouzaize") of which the source is in a public park on the north-east edge of town.[5]

Beaune has a semi-continental climate with an oceanic influence, with frequent rains in each season (though autumn has the most and summer the least) and frequent weather changes.

History

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Vineyards on the outskirts of Beaune
Place de la Halle in Beaune, France
The Hôtel de Ville

Founded in 1442 by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the Duke of Burgundy, who was encouraged to do so by his wife, Guigone de Salins, the Hospices are a charity running hospitals and other services for the needy. Thanks to donations from benefactors, they own vineyards in Burgundy. The Hôtel de Ville is a former convent completed in around 1700.[6]

At the end of the First World War, the American Expeditionary Forces University was established in Beaune under the leadership of Brigadier General Robert I. Rees, complete with its own chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.[7][8] Faculty included Walter M. Chandler, a Progressive Party member and, later, a Republican Party member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the State of New York.

Beaune is one of the wine towns in the Côte de Beaune section of the Burgundy wine region. It is the home of Beaune wine. Although Beaune itself does not have a Grand cru named for it, it is the hub of the region's wine business, as many of Burgundy's major négociants are here. Beaune hosts an annual charity wine auction on behalf of the Hospices de Beaune. It is on the route des Grands Crus which is a road that runs through the vineyards, north from Beaune to Gevrey Chambertin and Nuits-Saint-Georges and south to Nolay, Saisy and Autun. The appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) Beaune was created in 1936.[9]

Technically Beaune is a commune in eastern France, a sub-prefecture of department 21, the Côte-d'Or department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Population

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Notable people

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Twin towns

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Beaune is twinned with:[12]

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Climate

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Climate data for Beaunne (Savigny-lès-Beaune) (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1940–present)
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 17.0
(62.6)		 21.0
(69.8)		 24.9
(76.8)		 28.7
(83.7)		 31.8
(89.2)		 37.5
(99.5)		 39.0
(102.2)		 39.8
(103.6)		 34.0
(93.2)		 29.0
(84.2)		 21.6
(70.9)		 17.9
(64.2)		 39.8
(103.6)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 5.9
(42.6)		 7.9
(46.2)		 12.8
(55.0)		 16.5
(61.7)		 20.5
(68.9)		 24.5
(76.1)		 26.8
(80.2)		 26.5
(79.7)		 21.9
(71.4)		 16.4
(61.5)		 10.0
(50.0)		 6.4
(43.5)		 16.3
(61.3)
Daily mean °C (°F) 3.1
(37.6)		 4.3
(39.7)		 8.2
(46.8)		 11.5
(52.7)		 15.4
(59.7)		 19.1
(66.4)		 21.2
(70.2)		 20.9
(69.6)		 16.8
(62.2)		 12.2
(54.0)		 6.9
(44.4)		 3.7
(38.7)		 11.9
(53.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 0.3
(32.5)		 0.6
(33.1)		 3.6
(38.5)		 6.4
(43.5)		 10.4
(50.7)		 13.8
(56.8)		 15.6
(60.1)		 15.3
(59.5)		 11.7
(53.1)		 8.1
(46.6)		 3.7
(38.7)		 1.0
(33.8)		 7.5
(45.5)
Record low °C (°F) −20.5
(−4.9)		 −20.0
(−4.0)		 −11.0
(12.2)		 −4.5
(23.9)		 −2.0
(28.4)		 3.0
(37.4)		 5.0
(41.0)		 4.5
(40.1)		 0.5
(32.9)		 −4.5
(23.9)		 −9.5
(14.9)		 −16.5
(2.3)		 −20.5
(−4.9)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 58.9
(2.32)		 49.2
(1.94)		 52.0
(2.05)		 57.3
(2.26)		 69.2
(2.72)		 62.1
(2.44)		 67.4
(2.65)		 56.3
(2.22)		 55.3
(2.18)		 76.0
(2.99)		 80.3
(3.16)		 68.9
(2.71)		 752.9
(29.64)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 10.8 9.4 9.5 9.6 10.4 8.8 8.2 7.4 7.9 10.1 11.3 11.3 114.8
Source: Meteociel[13]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
  3. ↑ "The Climats, terroirs of Burgundy". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "laissez-vous conter Beaune". Villes et Pays d'art et d'histoire. Direction de la promotion de l'architecture et des réseaux (French government). Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. ↑ IGN Charte de Randonnée BEAUNE CHAGNY. Paris: Institut Géographique National. 2005.
  6. ↑ "Hôtel de Ville". Archives of Beaune. Retrieved 30 October 2026.
  7. ↑ The National Cyclopedia of American Biography. Vol. A. New York: James T. White & Company. 1930. pp. 300–301 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Voorhees, Oscar M. (May 1919). "The American Expeditionary Forces University at Beaune: An American University in France". The Phi Beta Kappa Key. 3 (12): 580–583. JSTOR 42913340.
  9. ↑ BIVB: Les Appellations d’Origine Contrôlée de Bourgogne, accessed on November 16, 2009
  10. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Beaune, EHESS (in French).
  11. ↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
  12. ↑ "Jumelage". beaune.fr (in French). Beaune. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2019.
  13. ↑ "Normales et records pour Savigny-lès-Beaune (21)". Meteociel. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
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