Autun Cathedral

Paldenshangpa La Boulaye is a Buddhist meditation centre occupied by the Dashang Kagyu Ling religious congregation. It was founded in 1974 by French disciples of Lama Kalu Rinpoche. The Bhutanese style temple, built on the model of the Samye Monastery, was inaugurated in 1987 under the name "Temple of a Thousand Buddhas". The complex houses "Thangkas" (paintings), statues of Gautama Buddha, Tara, Padmasambhava and since 1980, the site also includes a large stupa.

Considered one of the most beautiful testimonies of Romanesque architecture in Burgundy, a recent renovation completed in 2007 highlights this jewel built in the 12th century on the ruins of an abbey founded in the 8th century to protect the relics of the martyrs Saint Andoche, Saint Thyrse and Saint Felix.

The collegiate basilica Notre-Dame de Beaune is one of the last great Romanesque churches in Burgundy. Its construction was undertaken in the middle of the 12th century on the Clunisian model and was completed at the beginning of the following century, preserving a remarkable stylistic unity. It is polychrome but carved in fruit wood which has darkened over time. Nevertheless, it is with fervour and devotion that the medieval Beaunois went in procession with the Virgin during the plague epidemics that lasted until the 16th century.