{{Infobox French commune

|name = Cluny

|commune status = Commune

|image = Cluny - Vue depuis la Tour des Fromages - 02.jpg

|caption = The town center seen from the Tour des Fromages

|image coat of arms = Blason ville Cluny.svg

|arrondissement = Mâcon

|canton = Cluny

|intercommunality = Clunisois

|INSEE = 71137

|postal code = 71250

|mayor = Jean-François Demongeot

|term = 2026–32

|coordinates =

|elevation m = 248

|elevation min m = 226

|elevation max m = 574

|area km2 = 23.71

|population =

|population date =

|population footnotes =

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Cluny () is a commune in the eastern French department of Saône-et-Loire, in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is northwest of Mâcon.

The town grew up around the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny, founded by Duke William I of Aquitaine in 910. The height of Cluniac influence was from the second half of the 10th century through the early 12th. The abbey was sacked by the Huguenots in 1562, and many of its valuable manuscripts were destroyed or removed. Part of the abbey church and monastic buildings survived destruction as a result of the French Revolution.

Geography

The river Grosne flows northward through the commune and crosses the town.

Population

{{Historical populations

|source = INSEEPopulation municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE

|percentages = pagr

|align = none

|1968 |3807

|1975 |4343

|1982 |4441

|1990 |4430

|1999 |4376

|2007 |4585

|2012 |4712

|2017 |4830

|2023 |4942

}}

See also

  • Cluniac Reforms
  • Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

References

  • Official website (in French)