With plenty of territories in North America, South America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean and Antarctica, apart from the Metropolitan France, the country of France is a hub for rich art and culture. Paris, the capital city of France lies on the banks of the River Seine, in northern France, and happens to be the most important of all the cities in France.
Drawn by the brilliant rich past and the wonderful scenic natural views of the country, visitors keep pouring in round the year. Cluny, Paris is one of the major tourist attractions in Paris. It is a well known tourist site and preferred by the large number of travelers visiting the city.
Located in east-central France, near Macon, in the modern-day province of Saone-et-Loire in the region of Bourgogne, the town of Cluny grew up around Benedictine Cluny Abbey which was discovered in A.D. 910 by Duke William I of Aquitaine. The main tourist attraction in this town is Musee de Cluny which was earlier called the Hotel de Cluny.
Positioned amid the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Saint-Jacques, in the 5th arrondissement at 6 Place Paul Painleve, south of the Boulevard Saint-Germain, Musee de Cluny was originally the town house of the abbots of Cluny, Paris as early as 1334. Combining Gothic and Renaissance elements in its architecture, the building was turned into a public museum in 1843 to preserve remnants of the Gothic past of France conserved in the building by Alexandre du Sommerard.
The museum then also comprised a religious college in the Place de la Sorbonne. Actually the museum was taken over by Jacques d'Amboise, Bishop of Clermont and Abbot of Jumieges, and renovated to its present shape in the span of 1485-1500. Statues, tapestries, paintings, costumes, arms, goldsmiths' work and ceramics are some of the artifacts to be found here.
The Chapel, the ancient speech making area of the abbots, is a significant portion of the Cluny Museum. It consists of a pillar in the middle, from which the ribs of the vault spread out. Tapestries depicting the Legend of St. Stephen, woven for the cathedral of Auxerre and statues of the d'Amboise family are some of the mentionable possessions here.
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