Chapelle Saint-Martin du Beuvray

La chapelle Saint-Martin est une chapelle catholique située au sommet du mont Beuvray dans le massif du Morvan en France, édifiée entre le XIe et le XIIIe siècle et en ruines aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Elle est située sur l'emplacement d'un temple gallo-romain de la cité éduenne de Bibracte, érigé au début de notre ère.

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Bibracte

Bibracte, a Gallic oppidum, was the capital of the Aedui and one of the most important hillforts in Gaul. It was located near modern Autun in Burgundy, France. The material culture of the Aedui corresponded to the Late Iron Age La Tène culture. In 58 BC, at the Battle of Bibracte, Julius Caesar's armies defeated the Helvetii 16 miles south of the fort. In 52 BC, Vercingetorix was proclaimed head of the Gaulish coalition at Bibracte. A few decades after the Roman conquest of Gaul, Bibracte was abandoned in favour of Autun, 25 kilometres away. Once abandoned, Bibracte remained undisturbed and unexamined until discovered by modern archaeology. Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot initiated the first excavations at the site between 1867 and 1895. His nephew Joseph Déchelette, author of a famous Manuel d'Archéologie, continued the excavations between 1897 and 1907. The modern site, known as Mont Beuvray, is generally identified as ancient Bibracte. The site straddles the borders of the French départements of Nièvre and Saône-et-Loire in Burgundy. The site is an archaeological park at the centre of a protected forest. It is the focus of cooperative European archaeological efforts, a training ground for young archaeologists, and a centre for interpreting Gaulish culture for a popular audience. Important international excavations have been undertaken at Mont Beuvray by teams from the universities of Brno, Sheffield, Kiel, Budapest, Vienna and Leipzig. Before the Roman conquest in 52 BC the great Celtic city of Bibracte had more than thirty thousand inhabitants, protected by a huge stone wall of the Murus Gallicus type which enclosed an area of 135 hectares. On 12 December 2007 the site of Bibracte received the "Great Site of France" designation.

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Battle of Bibracte

The Battle of Bibracte was fought between a Gallic confederation centred around the Helvetii and a Roman army under the command of Gaius Julius Caesar. It was the first major battle of the Gallic Wars.

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Glux-en-Glenne

Glux-en-Glenne or simply Glux is a rural commune in the Nièvre department in central France. It is on the departmental border with Saône-et-Loire.

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Saint-Prix, Saône-et-Loire

Saint-Prix is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray

Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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En 376, l'évangélisateur Martin de Tours y aurait détruit des idoles païennes. Le site conserve une présence religieuse et rituelle de l'Antiquité à aujourd'hui et accueille d'importantes foires durant plusieurs siècles. Une nouvelle chapelle est édifiée en 1873 à la volonté du découvreur du site antique, Jacques-Gabriel Bulliot. Près du monument actuel figurent une croix monumentale, aussi érigée sur initiative d'archéologues en l'honneur de saint Martin en 1851 et qui succède à une croix en bois plus ancienne, ainsi que les vestiges de la fontaine Saint-Martin, un lieu de rites plus ancien.