Macon

Macon is a town in east important France. It is the prefecture of the department of Saone et Loire in Bourgogne Franche Comte. Macon is domestic to over 34,000 citizens, who're stated in French as Maconnais. The city gave its name to the nearby vineyards and wine appellation. The agglomeration of Macon originates from the establishment of an oppidum and of a river port by way of the Celts from the Aedui, in all likelihood at the start of the first century BC. Known then underneath the name of Matisco, the town developed appreciably all through the age of the Roman Empire.

This is tested with the aid of the massive Roman hoard, the Macon Treasure that became determined in the town in 1764, the stays of that's in the British Museum. During the 4th century, the metropolis was fortified. During the center Ages, Macon became the administrative center of a county belonging to the Duchy of Burgundy on the extremity of the bridge over the Saone main to the Bresse territory belonging to the Duchy of Savoy. The town was controlling get entry to to provide-day Lamartinien Valley where the southern quit of the Cote de Bourgogne joins the first foothills of the Beaujolais hills, starting the manner to the wealthy plains of the Loire.