Noyers-sur-Serein in Burgundy
Saturday, 9 March 2013 - 01:17 pm (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union General
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Noyers (sometimes referred to as
Noyers-sur-Serein ) is a commune in the
Yonne department in
Burgundy in north-central France. There are half-timbered houses, ashlars, pillars and pinnacles. There are a lot of lanes and small squares made of chalky and granitic pavements. There are towers surrounded by the
river Serein loops.
The origins of Noyers are unclear. It was founded by the king of Sequani Gaul tribe, just before the Roman conquest, or by a contemporary of Julius Caesar called Lucidorius. He would have given the city its first name, Lucida. Around and after the 12th century the city became the seat of the Miles family. At the end of the twelfth century, Hugues de Noyers, bishop of Auxerre , built “one of the most famous castles of France”. It was beleaguered by Blanche de Castille’s troops in 1217, but it did resist.
Town Hall Square © Christophe.Finot/cc-by-sa-2.5
Wine and grain trade were prosperous at Noyers. A lot of documents attest there were plenty of vines, walnut-trees and cherry-trees over the hills all around Noyers. Till the beginning of the twentieth century a great part of local craftsmen was represented by cartwrights, harness-makers, coopers, farriers and shoe makers. In 1861 there were 128 vine-growers and 25 tillage-farmers. Today they are not so many but farmers are still keeping their places.
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