23 Sights in Dijon, France (with Map and Images)

The Church of Sainte-Anne de Dijon is an 18th-century circular church with a verdigris copper dome in the Baroque style dedicated to Saint Anne, associated with the 17th-century Bernardine monastery of Dijon. It is located on rue Sainte-Anne, in the centre of Dijon. The church has been listed as a historical monument since 1945. It is home to the Museum of Sacred Art of Dijon, inaugurated in 1980, and the monastery has been home to the Perrin de Puycousin Museum of Burgundian Life since 1993.

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Alain Kirili was a French-American sculptor. He was recognized for his post-minimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his large-scale public sculptures. His work has been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in United States and Europe, and has received considerable critical interest from art historians, such as Thierry Dufrêne, Robert C. Morgan, Robert Rosenblum, and Kirk Varnedoe. Kirili lived and worked in Paris and New York.

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The Chapel of Saint-Jean le Théologien or Chapel of La Maladière is a place of worship dedicated to Orthodox Christianity located in Dijon in Côte-d'Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Since December 1977, this chapel has belonged to the Coptic Orthodox community, which celebrates the liturgy of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. The monument was listed as a historical monument by decree of 16 January 1947.

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The Well of Moses is a monumental sculpture recognised as the masterpiece of the Dutch artist Claus Sluter (1340–1405–06), assisted by his nephew Claus de Werve. It was executed by Sluter and his workshop in 1395–1403 for the Carthusian monastery of Chartreuse de Champmol built as a burial site by the Burgundian Duke Philip the Bold just outside the Burgundian capital of Dijon, now in France.

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The Grande Chapelle is located in the former Dijon General Hospital. Built from the 16th century onwards as the hospital's sick room, it was remodelled several times to become a chapel from 1843 until 2015, when it was execrated. It now serves as an exhibition hall within the International City of Gastronomy and Wine. Its façade and interior are classified as historical monuments.

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The Monument to Sadi Carnot is an allegorical memorial inaugurated in 1899 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Built by the sculptors Mathurin Moreau and Paul Gasq on the plans of the architect Félix Vionnois, it is dedicated to the memory of Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), general councillor, deputy of the Côte-d'Or, minister, then 5th president of the French Republic.

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The Lycée Carnot is a local public educational institution located in Dijon, France, inaugurated on 31 July 1893. It is the oldest high school in Dijon, created in 1802 as the Lycée impérial, on the premises of the current location of the Marcelle-Pardé college and the most important high school for preparatory classes for the grandes écoles of the Dijon academy.

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The Hôtel Aubriot is a thirteenth-century mansion with a roof made of glazed Burgundy tiles, adjoining the Maison Maillard, at 40, rue des Forges in Dijon in Côte-d'Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The vaulted cellar on pillars of the house was listed as a historical monument by decree of 30 November 2009 and replaced by a classification order on 16 August 2011.

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The International City of Gastronomy and Wine (CIGV) of Dijon is one of the cities of gastronomy, located on the site of the former Dijon General Hospital. Its mission is to promote both the gastronomic meal of the French and the "climats" of the Burgundy vineyards, both listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The complex was inaugurated on May 6, 2022.

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The Cellier de Clairvaux or Petit-Clairvaux is a Cistercian cellar in the early Cistercian Gothic style, founded by the Abbey of Clairvaux in the thirteenth century, in the historic centre of Dijon in the Côte-d'Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Currently a municipal hall, it has been listed as a historical monument since 1915, 1917 and 1921.

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Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.

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Dijon Cathedral, or the Cathedral of Saint Benignus of Dijon, is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Dijon, Burgundy, France, and dedicated to Saint Benignus of Dijon. The Gothic cathedral building, constructed between 1280 and 1325, and dedicated on 9 April 1393, is a listed national monument.

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The Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon is a Roman Catholic church in Dijon. Considered a masterpiece of 13th-century Gothic architecture, it is situated at the heart of the preserved old centre of the city. It is located in Place Notre-Dame, near the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy and opposite the rue Musette.

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The monument to Bernard of Clairvaux at Dijon is a memorial built in 1847 by the dijonnais sculptor François Jouffroy, dedicated to the monk, statesman, preacher, orator and Catholic saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), located at the place Saint-Bernard of Dijon, at the French Côte-d'Or department.

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Haegue Yang is a South Korean artist primarily working in sculpture and installation. After receiving her B.F.A from Seoul National University in 1994, Yang received an M.A. from Städelschule where she now teaches as a professor of Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Seoul.

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Arman was a French-born American artist. Born Armand Fernandez in Nice, France, Arman was a painter who moved from using objects for the ink or paint traces they leave to using them as the artworks themselves. He is best known for his Accumulations and destruction/recomposition of objects.

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The Hôtel des Godrans or Hôtel Godran is a fifteenth-century mansion with a glazed Burgundy tile roof in Dijon in Côte-d'Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The hotel has been listed as a historical monument since 13 January 1947 and the roof has been listed since 28 October 1941.

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The Darcy Garden or Darcy Square is a 19th-century neo-Renaissance style public garden on Place Darcy, in downtown Dijon in the Côte-d'Or region. It is dedicated to the hydraulician Henry Darcy (1803-1858) and has been listed as a historical monument since 2015.

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Gottfried Honegger was a Swiss artist and graphic designer. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design.

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The Perrin de Puycousin Museum of Burgundian Life is a "Burgundian ethnological museum" housed in the Bernardine monastery of Dijon in Côte-d'Or and associated with the Dijon Museum of Sacred Art of the Sainte-Anne church in Dijon.

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The Hôtel des Postes de Dijon, now Postes Grangier, is a building complex partly inspired by the Louis XVI style, located at 8-12 Place Grangier, 1-7 Rue du Temple, 15 Boulevard de Brosses and 2-10 Rue Jean-Renaud in Dijon.

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The chapel of the Carmelites of Dijon is what remains of an ancient seven -century carmelite convent. It is located in the saved center of Dijon. The facade has been classified as historic monuments since 1910.

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The Dijon Synagogue is a synagogue located in Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or department of France. It is fully listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments by prefectural decree of 15 March 1989.

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