Discover Jully: Church, Château and Forest
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Jully offers two distinct themes to consider when planning your trip: architectural and religious history centred on the church and Château, and the woodland landscape of the Forêt domaniale de Jully. If you are looking for a hotel, you can first consider which focus will shape your trip more. The historic buildings and the forest districts represent different sides of the town.
The church and the hamlet of La Maine
The Église paroissiale de l’Assomption was built in 1830. It stands at the northern end of the hamlet of La Maine, beside the cemetery grounds and a small tree-planted square. The year of construction provides a point of reference in time, while the location also places the church in a particular hamlet. Its proximity to the cemetery grounds and the tree-planted square is also part of this specific description of the place. For travellers interested in religious buildings, the site combines architectural history with its place in one of the five hamlets that make up the municipality of Jully.
The Château de Jully and the wayside cross
The grounds of the Château de Jully included several buildings, a chapel, a terrace, orchards and meadows. All that remains of the Château is a partly ruined section of a building, constructed over a vaulted cellar. The once extensive grounds and the surviving section of the building therefore represent different scales in the history of the place. The Château was intended for a convent of nuns under the authority of Molesmes Abbey.
The wayside cross was erected and blessed in 1945. It stands to the right of the former Château de Jully. A wayside cross is a roadside cross; the depiction shows Christ on the cross, with Saint Bernard and Saint Hombeline standing at his feet. The church’s construction date and the year of the cross mark different points in time: 1830 relates to the church, while 1945 relates to the erection and blessing of the cross. This distinguishes the two historical features without combining them into a single building history.
ForĂŞt domaniale de Jully and the five hamlets
The ForĂŞt domaniale de Jully comprises two forest districts, four kilometres apart. It lies at the heart of a village spread across five hamlets: Jully-les-Forges, Jully-la-Loge, Jully-Frace, Jully-la-Folie and Jully-la-Maine. The four kilometres refers to the distance between the forest districts; the five hamlets describe how the village is spread out. This allows you to distinguish the layout of the forest area from the structure of the village. If you plan to walk in the forest, check the local routes and access conditions before your trip.
The history of forestry offers another point of interest: in 1987, a total of 23 hectares of land on the edge of the forest were reforested. A mixture of beech, Nordmann fir, Calabrian laricio pine, wild service tree, service tree, hybrid walnut and wild cherry was used for planting. This detail adds a specific measure from the forest’s history to the description of the two forest districts. The dates refer to different events: 1830 to the construction of the church, 1945 to the erection and blessing of the cross, and 1987 to the reforestation on the edge of the forest.
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For the regional travel overview: Yonne.
