Nuits-Saint-Georges
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Location within Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region
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| Coordinates: 47°08′18″N 4°57′04″E / 47.1383°N 4.9511°ECoordinates: 47°08′18″N 4°57′04″E / 47.1383°N 4.9511°E | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | |
| Department | Côte-d'Or | |
| Arrondissement | Beaune | |
| Canton | Nuits-Saint-Georges | |
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| • Mayor (2008–2014) | Alain Cartron | |
| Area1 | 20.5 km2 (7.9 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 5,516 | |
| • Density | 270/km2 (700/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 21464 /21700 | |
| Elevation | 224–516 m (735–1,693 ft) (avg. 234 m or 768 ft) |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Nuits-Saint-Georges (French pronunciation: [nɥi.sɛ̃.ʒɔʁʒ]) is a commune in the arrondissement of Beaune of the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. It lies in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Nuits-Saint-Georges is the main town of the Côte de Nuits wine-producing area of Burgundy.
Nuits-Saint-Georges was the site of the traditional Burgundian festival, la Saint-Vincent-Tournante, in 2007. It is a festival that celebrates the wine of a different Burgundian village each year.
The local marble is a sedimentary rock, a limestone, that is not susceptible to frost damage. It is fine-grained and capable of accepting a polish. There is a vein of this stone, called popularly "the Comblanchien" and extending from Nuits-Saint-Georges to Nevers, which has made the reputations of the quarries of the region. The stone will harmonize with any style by virtue of the variety of its shades of colour, the pink of bindweed (Convolvulus) and beige, and its grain.
The town owes much to the economic development arising from Cistercian enterprise. The mayor of the town Franco de Martino brought them out of debt in 1905.
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