--- title: "Anis de Flavigny: Free Factory Visit, Crypt and Tasting" description: "Aniseed sweets made in a Benedictine abbey above a Carolingian crypt. Free visits and tastings, workshop tours on weekdays. 1 h 15 from Beaune by driver." url: https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/anis-de-flavigny lang: en updated: 2026-10-01 generated: 2026-10-08 image: https://www.cote-privee.com/og/things-to-do/anis-de-flavigny.png --- # Les Anis de Flavigny > Les Anis de Flavigny: Aniseed sweets made in a Benedictine abbey, with a Carolingian crypt beneath the workshops. Les Anis de Flavigny is in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (Côte-d'Or), 1 h 02 by road (77 km) from Beaune. Allow 45 minutes to 1.5 hours · Private driver from Beaune: €215 one way for the whole car, up to 4 guests. Les Anis de Flavigny are small sugar-coated sweets with a single aniseed at their heart. They are made inside the former Benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre in Flavigny-sur-Ozerain. Visitors can watch the sweets being made, explore the abbey's Carolingian crypt and taste the different flavours in the shop. ## Key facts - Type: Food makers - Where: Flavigny-sur-Ozerain · Côte-d'Or - Location: 60 km north-west of Beaune · Côte-d'Or - Coordinates: 47.5114, 4.5297 - 1 h 02 from Beaune - Allow 45 minutes to 1.5 hours - Flavigny-sur-Ozerain - Official website: [anis-flavigny.com](https://www.anis-flavigny.com/) - From Beaune: ≈ 1 h 02 · 77 km - €215 one way from Beaune with a [private driver](https://www.cote-privee.com/private-driver) ## Getting there - [Private driver from Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/private-driver): 1 h 02 by road (77 km), €215 one way for the whole car. Coming by train or plane? [Transfers from stations and airports](https://www.cote-privee.com/transfers) Estimates per vehicle for up to 4 guests, tolls included. Your price is confirmed when you book. ## History The abbey of Saint-Pierre was founded in 719. The Duc de Saint-Simon wrote that Louis XIV liked to suck aniseed sweets, which he kept in a small pocket box. After the monks left in 1792, eight people of Flavigny kept making the sweets, mostly in the former abbey. In 1896 a Monsieur Galimard bought the abbey and brought all the aniseed workshops together under one roof. In 1923 Jean Troubat took over the business. He sold the sweets in station vending machines, Paris department stores and cinemas, and by 1928 was making 80 tonnes a year. His son Nicolas, in charge from 1965 to 1990, raised production to 250 tonnes. Nicolas's daughter Catherine has run the company since 1990. Excavations from 1956 to 1960 uncovered the chapel of Notre-Dame-des-Piliers beside the Carolingian crypt of Saint Reine. ## What you will see On weekdays a guide leads small groups into the workshop, where aniseeds roll in copper pans and slowly gather thin layers of sugar syrup. You then see the packing room, where the sweets go into their tins. You can also visit on your own the small museum, the old workshops and the crypt, with the chapels of Sainte-Reine and Notre-Dame-des-Piliers. The visit ends in the shop, where you can taste flavours such as violet, rose and liquorice. ## Planning your visit Allow about 40 minutes for the guided workshop tour and as long again for the crypt and museum. Workshop tours run on weekdays only, in small groups, and booking is advised. Visits and tastings are free. From 11 November to early February the workshop tours stop, but the museum, crypt, shop and café stay open at weekends, and every day in the Christmas holidays. Combine with a walk in the village and the MuséoParc Alésia. Please check the official website for opening times. ## Did you know? Each sweet starts as an aniseed weighing about two milligrams. It spends around 15 days turning in the pans before it becomes a sweet weighing about one gram. ## Around Les Anis de Flavigny What to combine with Les Anis de Flavigny on the same day, nearest first. ### Châteaux - [Château de Bussy-Rabutin](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-bussy-rabutin) (5 km away): The home of a disgraced courtier in exile, painted wall to wall with portraits and mottoes. - [Château de Marigny-le-Cahouët](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-marigny-le-cahouet) (8 km away): A moated castle of the plain, with towers, a drawbridge and a Gothic Revival gate. - [Château de Frôlois](https://www.cote-privee.com/chateaux/chateau-de-frolois) (8 km away): A stern medieval castle on a rocky spur, with warm period rooms that open in summer. ### Things to do - [Église Saint-Genest de Flavigny-sur-Ozerain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/eglise-saint-genest-flavigny) (1 km away): A village church with galleries on two levels, a carved Gothic tribune and a hundred statues, now under restoration inside. - [Flavigny-sur-Ozerain](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/flavigny-sur-ozerain) (1 km away): A walled hilltop village of stone lanes, medieval gates and aniseed sweets, facing the Alésia battlefield. - [MuséoParc Alésia](https://www.cote-privee.com/things-to-do/museoparc-alesia) (5 km away): The battlefield where Caesar defeated Vercingetorix, with a modern museum, Roman siege works and a Gallo-Roman town. ### Guides about Les Anis de Flavigny - [Burgundy with children](https://www.cote-privee.com/guides/burgundy-with-children) ## Questions about Les Anis de Flavigny ### How far is Les Anis de Flavigny from Beaune? Les Anis de Flavigny is about 1 h 02 from Beaune by road (77 km). With a private driver, the trip from Beaune starts at €215 for the whole car, up to 4 guests. ### How long does a visit to Les Anis de Flavigny take? For the visit, allow 45 minutes to 1.5 hours. ### When is Les Anis de Flavigny open? Opening days and times change during the year, so check the official website (anis-flavigny.com) before you go. Your driver can plan the day around them. ### Can a private driver take us to Les Anis de Flavigny? Yes. Your driver collects you in Beaune or at your hotel in an electric Polestar 2 (up to 4 guests), waits while you visit and plans the rest of the day with you. The driver speaks English, French, Mandarin Chinese and Arabic. → [Private driver from Beaune](https://www.cote-privee.com/private-driver) ## Book - [Book a driver here](https://www.cote-privee.com/book?service=driver&place=sight:anis): €215 one way from Beaune · up to 4 guests ## Sources - - - --- Canonical page: