Wine cellar, Hospices de Beaune, Beaune, Burgundy, France

Medieval wine cellar, 300m long, with storage for barrels of wine, below the 19th century storage rooms built on earlier rooms of 1645, in Les Hospices de Beaune, or Hotel-Dieu de Beaune, a charitable almshouse and hospital for the poor, built 1443-57 by Flemish architect Jacques Wiscrer, and founded by Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy, and his wife Guigone de Salins, in Beaune, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France. This was the venue for the famous annual wine auction 1926-58. The hospital was run by the nuns of the order of Les Soeurs Hospitalieres de Beaune, and remained a hospital until the 1970s. The building now houses the Musee de l'Histoire de la Medecine, or Museum of the History of Medicine, and is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13434808

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45119587

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5906px x 3937px (8.7MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen