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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 .
Oil on oak, Hospices de Beaune, interior view The view with the wings folded of six panels with the donors kneeling in the far wings 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 ...
The Côte de Beaune area is the southern part of the Côte d'Or, the limestone ridge that is home to the great names of Burgundy wine. The Côte de Beaune (France) starts between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Beaune, and extends southwards for about 25 km to the river Dheune. The trend of producing red wines continues from the Côte de Nuits to the ...
Sculptures of Nicolas Rolin and Guigone de Salins (). Guigone de Salins (1403–1470) was a member of the nobility in the state of Burgundy in late medieval France. A well-known philanthropist in her time, she founded the Hospices de Beaune in 1443 with her husband Nicolas Rolin, chancellor to the Duke of Burgundy.
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.
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 number of childfree women is at a record high: 48 percent of women between the ages of 18 and 44 don’t have kids, according to 2014 Census numbers. The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree.
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 .