Flavigny-sur-Ozerain
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Commune of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain |
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Location | |
Longitude | 04° 31' 55" E |
Latitude | 47° 30' 46" N |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Bourgogne |
Department | Côte-d'Or |
Arrondissement | Montbard |
Canton | Venarey-les-Laumes |
Mayor | Gérard Fontheneau (2001-2008) |
Statistics | |
Altitude | 239 m–482 m (avg. 426 m) |
Land area¹ | 27.79 km² |
Population² (1999) |
341 |
- Density (1999) | 12/km² |
Miscellaneous | |
INSEE/Postal code | 21271/ 21150 |
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
Flavigny-sur-Ozerain is a small village and commune on a hilltop in the Côte-d'Or département, Burgundy région, in France.
Flavigny is reputed for its aniseed candy (anis de Flavigny). The movie Chocolat was shot in Flavigny.
It has a seminary of the Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist branch of the Roman Catholic Church, the Séminaire International Saint Curé d'Ars.
This village also has a Benedictine abbey. The monks today occupy a site near to the site of a Benedictine abbey from the early Middle Ages to the Revolution. The monks returned in the 1970s.
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