Porte Guillaume originally part of the city ramparts but now stands alone after the ramparts were removed in the late 1800s...
Saint Benigne...
Hotel des Postes (Dijon's Post Office)...
Place Granger Art Nouveau building designed by the same architect that designed the Hotel des Poste....
Place du Theatre...
The 1685 built Place de la Liberation...
The Dukes of Burgundy Palace started in 1366. The odd blocky looking tower in the centre of the palace is the "Philip the Good Tower". The early Dukes of Burgundy we called Philip the Bold(1364 - 1404), John the Fearless (1404 - 1419), Philip the Good (1419-1467) and Charles the Bold (1467-1477). Philip the Good was not all good because it was his Burgundy army that captured Joan of Arc and he sold her to the English.
The final design of the Dukes' Palace was done by the same architect that designed the Palace of Versailles and we think it shows...
The Town Hall (Hotel de Ville) now but called the "Tour de Bar" . The tower was built by Philip the Bold as a prison.
Talking of justice, below is the grand carved door to the Palais de Justice (Court House)...
Some of the grand houses of Dijon built in the 13th and 14th centuries....
just look at that detail up close...
Inside the courtyard of another, just exquisite and just 600 years old...
Notre Dame...
This is Jenelle's photo of the reflection of the front of Notre Dame in the window of a shop across the street; very arty...
The front is adorned with rows of gargoyles....
They look rather menacing up close....
This clock on top of Notre Dame was added in the 13th century. The clock had orginally just Jacquemart on his own. In the 17th century Jacqueline was added to keep him company. In the 18th century they had a son Jacquelinet and in the 19th century a daughter Jacquelinette joined the family group.....
On the side of Notre Dame is a small carved owl. Legend has it that you rub the owl for good luck. The poor old owl is just about rubbed away by a millennium of rubbing. One more rub can't hurt...
A mural on the end of the market halls....
The maison Milliere dates from 1483. Note the cat statute on the dormer window...
up close...
Jardin (Garden) Darcy. Mr Darcy heard a whisper that a railway line was to built from Paris to Beaune, he convinced the government it should go to Dijon instead, the rest as they say is history. Dijon is now a major thriving city and Beaune is still a village....
There are a few of the beautiful multi-coloured roofs in Dijon as well...
