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The Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune is a former charitable almshouse in Beaune, France. It was founded in 1443 by Nicolas Rolin , chancellor of Burgundy, as a hospital for the poor. The original hospital building, the Hôtel-Dieu, one of the finest examples of fifteenth-century Burgundian architecture, is now a museum .
The annual wine auction of the Hospices de Beaune is the primary wine auction in France. The town is surrounded by some of the world's most famous wine villages, [ citation needed ] while the facilities and cellars of many producers, large and small, are situated in the historic center of Beaune itself, as they have been since Roman times.
Côte de Beaune AOC, often confused with Côte de Beaune-Villages AOC, is an AOC for a small number of vineyards high on the slopes above Beaune. [7] The Hautes-Côtes de Beaune is a subregion covering various smaller valleys immediately to the west of the Côtes de Beaune areas on or closer to the main Côte d'Or escarpment.
Hospices exist to provide comfort to people who doctors determine are at the end of their lives, with six months or less to live. The paramount objective, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, a trade association, is to make patients comfortable, with a focus “on enhancing the quality of remaining life.”
Demelza Hospice Care for Children; Farleigh Hospice, non-profit in Chelmsford, Essex, England; Grand Master of the Sacred Apostolic Hospice; Hospice-Anthelme Verreau; Hospice Comtesse, town museum in Lille, France; Hospices de Beaune, museum in Beaune, Bourgogne, France; Kirkwood Hospice, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England; Linda Mbeki Hospice
The Hospices de Beaune is a charity based in the town, consisting of the Hôtel-Dieu Hospital and the Hospices de la Charité. The Hospices are funded by their endowment of 55ha of vineyards on the Côte d'Or, and the auction of their wines on the third Sunday in November sets a benchmark for prices for that vintage.
On October 1, 2018, AAN started broadcasting as "America's Auction Channel" and owned once again by Jeremiah Hartman. As of September 10, 2019, the network stopped utilizing Dish channel 219 for its permanent channel slot. [1] As of the start of 2020, AAN purchases a number of weekly timeslots on Dish leased access networks to carry its ...
The Beaune Altarpiece (or The Last Judgement) is a large polyptych c. 1443–1451 altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden, painted in oil on oak panels with parts later transferred to canvas. It consists of fifteen paintings on nine panels, of which six are painted on both sides.