Older than the Hospices de Beaune, this 12th-century complex — granaries and a hospital built by the Knights Hospitallers of St John — is one of the finest Gothic ensembles in western France. The former hospital's sick ward, divided into three equal naves with Angevin-style vaulted ceilings, provides the setting for Jean Lurçat's monumental tapestry series Le Chant du Monde (Song of the World), commissioned in 1957 as a modern response to the Tapestry of the Apocalypse. The effect is extraordinary: medieval architecture filled with 20th-century visionary art.
L'Ensemble Saint-Jean
Medieval hospital housing Lurçat's monumental modern tapestries
| Address | Boulevard Arago / Place du Tertre |
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