page_title: Autun
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Autun / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: English: Cathedral and Tour des Ursulines in Autun, Burgundy, France Deutsch: Kathedrale und Tour des Ursulines in Autun, Burgund, Frankreich
context_page_description: Autun is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France. It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte as their political centre. In Roman times the city may have been home to 30,000 to 100,000 people, according to different estimates. Nowadays, the commune has a population of about 15,000.
context_section_description: Autun's best known museum is the Musée Rolin. It houses historical artistic collections.
  Near Autun, tourists can also see:
  The Arboretum de Pézanin, one of the richest forest collection in France
  The Rock of Solutré
  Cluny Abbey and its medieval city
  Charolles and the "boeuf charolais"
  Mâcon, Paray-le-Monial
caption: Tour des Ursulines near the Autun Cathedral
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