St. Emilion

See also: St. Emilion (homonymy)

Saint-Émilion is a common French, located in the department of the the Gironde and the area Aquitaine.

Geography

Located on the slope between the the Dordogne and the Isle and between Libourne and Castillon-the-Battles

It is in this commune that the " is; zéro" (000.000/000.000) of the Swiss frame of reference . In this manner, on all the Swiss territory, the horizontal coordinate is always higher than the vertical coordinate. In the same way, there cannot be negative coordinates.

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

  • the Hermitage of St. Emilion
  • the Vault of the Trinity
  • the Catacomb S
  • the church Monolith, known to be the second church monolith in the world.
  • Vignoble of St. Emilion
  • the Tour of Roy is a keep-citadel built in 1237 on order of Henri III, king d' Angleterre and duke of Aquitaine. It is about the only keep of Romance style in the Gironde. It rises on two stages above an underground cavity which makes it possible to reach and overhang the medieval city of St. Emilion it, registered to the World heritage of humanity of UNESCO. This square keep sheltered the Town hall until in 1608. it is top of this tower which the jurade of St. Emilion proclaims third Sunday of June the judgment of the new wine and third Sunday of September the round of applause of the grape harvest .

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