Balsam-the-Sirs

Balsam-the-Sirs is a village French, located in the department of the the Jura and the area Franche-Comté. It is labellisé by association the most beautiful villages of France.

Geography

Balsam-the-Sirs is located at the bottom of a Cirque, surrounded by high cliffs of a hundred of meters notching the first Jurassic plate: it is about one of the most famous Reculée S of the Jura. The Seille takes its source there.

Localities and variations

Communes bordering

Crançot
Barns on Balsam
Lavigny
Mirebel
Nevy-on-Pail
Pannessières
Perrigny

History

August 1st

Administration

Demography

Monuments and curiosities

Religious heritage

Balsam-the-Sirs accommodates the Abbaye Bénédictin E Saint-Pierre, founded in 909. It replaced the monastery of Balsam-the-Monks, founded at the 6th century. Devastated by Buckwheats and the Norman ones, the abbot Bernon restores it and leaves it in 910 to go to found the Abbaye of Cluny.

Civil inheritance

Other tourist curiosities

caves of Balsam-the-Sirs
the circus of Balsam-the-Sirs

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