Day 15-- Loire Valley; Auxerre
Château de Chaumont; Saint-Pierre Church of Montlivault; Château de Chambord; Auxerre; Cathédrale Saint-Étienne;
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Auxerre, Burgundy
Auxerre was a flourishing Gallo-Roman centre, through which passed one of the main roads of the area, the Via Agrippa (1st century AD) which crossed the Yonne (Gallo-Roman Icauna) here.
In the third century it became the seat of a bishop and a provincial capital of the Roman Empire.
In the 5th century it received a Cathedral. In the late 11th-early 12th century the existing communities were included inside a new line of walls built by the feudal counts of Auxerre.
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