Nolay is located in the heart of the Cozanne Valley. The town marks the transition between the forests and plains to the north and west and the hillside vineyards of the wealthy Burgundian wine regions surrounding Beaune and the Chalonnaise hills to the south.
Population
Historical population
Year
Pop.
±%
1962
1,587
—
1968
1,589
+0.1%
1975
1,647
+3.7%
1982
1,582
−3.9%
1990
1,551
−2.0%
1999
1,547
−0.3%
2008
1,496
−3.3%
Sights
Nolay is a small medieval market town, widely regarded as one of the most beautiful towns on the southern edge of the Côte-d'Or with its 14th century Central Market and wooden framed houses.
Louis-Anne La Virotte, born in 1725 in Nolay and died on March 3, 1759, in Paris, doctor.
Lazare Carnot (1753-1823), mathematician, physicist, general of the armies of the Republic; fierce opponent of the creation of the Empire (name engraved under the Arc de Triomphe).
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