Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Besançon, France

The Hôtel de Rosières is a private mansion located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Rosières (FR)

The Petit Hôtel Chassignet is a private mansion located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Petit Hôtel Chassignet (FR)

The Besançon courthouse brings together on a single site the Court of Appeal, the Judicial Court and the Commercial Court of Besançon.

Wikipedia: Palais de justice de Besançon (FR)

The Fontaine des Clarisses is a public fountain located in Besançon in the Doubs department. The fountain is located near the entrance to the former artillery school of Besançon at 4 rue Mégevand.

Wikipedia: Fontaine des Clarisses (FR)

The Chapel of Notre-Dame du Refuge is an eighteenth-century Baroque style Catholic chapel located in Besançon (Doubs), with a monumental dome in polychrome glazed tiles, attached to a former "Convent of the Refuge" of 1709 and then to the Saint-Jacques Hospital in Besançon in 1802. Located in the historic centre of Besançon in the Doubs in Franche-Comté, it is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and classified as a historical monument in 1970.

Wikipedia: Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Foyer (FR)

The church of Saint-François-Xavier de Besançon is located in the historic center of the city. It was built from 1680 to 1688 to serve as a chapel for the Jesuit college.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-François-Xavier (Besançon) (FR)

The Fontaine des Dames is a public fountain located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Fontaine des Dames (FR)

The Veil-Picard family is a Jewish family, originally from the Haut-Rhin. The grandfather, Aaron Veil, born on 5 May 1794 in Oberhagental, settled in Besançon where he worked as a banker. He married Pauline Hauser-Picard in 1823; their descendants bore the surname Veil-Picard. Aaron died on October 20, 1868 in Besançon.

Wikipedia: Famille Veil-Picard (FR)

The Notre-Dame church is located on rue Mégevand, in the Boucle district, in Besançon (Doubs).

Wikipedia: Église Notre-Dame de Besançon (FR)

The Ledoux Theater is a performance, opera, theater and concert hall, located in the historic center of Besançon, formerly known as the musical theater.

Wikipedia: Théâtre Ledoux (FR), Website

The Fontaine du Doubs is a public fountain located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Fontaine du Doubs (FR)

The Arcier Spring Water Tower, known as the Saint Jean Reservoir, is a water tower located in Besançon in the French department of Doubs.

Wikipedia: Château d'eau de la source d'Arcier (FR)

The Besançon astronomical clock is housed in Besançon Cathedral. Auguste-Lucien Vérité of Beauvais designed and built Besançon's present astronomical clock, between 1858 and 1863. It replaced an earlier clock that Bernardin had constructed in the 1850s that proved unsatisfactory. Besançon's clock differs from those in Strasbourg, Lyon, and Beauvais. The clock is meant to express the theological concept that each second of the day the Resurrection of Christ transforms the existence of man and of the world.

Wikipedia: Besançon astronomical clock (EN)

The Porte Noire is a Roman triumphal arch in Besançon, France.

Wikipedia: Porte Noire (EN)

The former Archiepiscopal Palace of Besançon is a building located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Palais archiépiscopal de Besançon (FR)

The Saint-Quentin Fountain is a public fountain located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Fontaine Saint-Quentin (FR)

The house where the Lumière brothers were born is the apartment where the Lumière brothers were born in 1862 and 1864, 1 place Victor-Hugo in La Boucle de Besançon in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Wikipedia: Maison natale des frères Lumière (FR)

The Hôtel de Clermont is a private mansion located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Clermont (Besançon) (FR)

Victor Hugo's birthplace is an apartment in the historic center of Besançon, where the French humanist ideologue writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was born on the 1st floor of 140 Grande Rue de Besançon in the Doubs in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. These places of literary memory were converted into a museum in 2013, labelled Maisons des Illustres. The facades and roofs have been listed as historical monuments since 30 April 1942.

Wikipedia: Maison natale de Victor Hugo (FR)

The Hôtel de Ligniville is a private mansion located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Ligniville (Besançon) (FR)

The Buyer hotel is a mansion located in Besançon in the Doubs department. It was built in the 17th century and 18th century.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Buyer (FR)

The Besançon Museum of Time is a history and watchmaking museum located in Besançon in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, installed in one of the most beautiful palaces in the city, the Palais Granvelle.

Wikipedia: Musée du Temps (FR), Website

The Fontaine des Carmes is a public fountain located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Fontaine des Carmes (Besançon) (FR)

The Hôtel Petit de Marivat is an eighteenth-century mansion in Besançon in the Doubs region of Franche-Comté. It has been listed as a historical monument since July 8, 1942.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Petit de Marivat (FR)

The Hôtel de Camus is a private mansion located in Besançon in the Doubs department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Camus (FR)

The Parc Micaud or Promenade Micaud is a public garden in Besançon located on the banks of the Doubs River. It is named after Jean-Agathe Micaud, former mayor of Besançon from 1835 to 1843, and initiator of the park in 1843.

Wikipedia: Parc Micaud (FR)

The fort of Bregille is a fortification located in the French city of Besançon.

Wikipedia: Fort of Bregille (EN)

The Franche-Comté Regional Contemporary Art Fund is a regional contemporary art fund created by the Franche-Comté region in 1982.

Wikipedia: Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Franche-Comté (FR)

The Citadel of Besançon is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The Citadel occupies 11 hectares on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital of Franche-Comté. Mount Saint-Etienne occupies the neck of an oxbow formed by the river Doubs, giving the site a strategic importance that Julius Caesar recognised as early as 58 BC. The Citadel overlooks the old quarter of the city, which is located within the oxbow, and has views of the city and its surroundings.

Wikipedia: Citadel of Besançon (EN)