Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Dijon, France

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Number of sights 50 sights
Distance 8.8 km
Ascend 100 m
Descend 108 m

Experience Dijon in France in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in DijonIndividual Sights in Dijon

Sight 1: Hôtel Nicolas Rolin

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The Hotel Rolin is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located at 8 rue Jeannin, in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Rolin (FR)

98 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Maison des Cariatides

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The house of the Caryatids is located at no. 28, rue Chaudronnerie, in Dijon.

Wikipedia: Maison des Cariatides (FR)

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Hôtel Bénigne Malyon

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The Hotel Bénigne Malyon is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Bénigne Malyon (FR)

137 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Hôtel de Vogüé

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The Hôtel de Vogüé in Dijon in the Côte-d'Or is a seventeenth-century mansion. It is located at 8 rue de la Chouette, near the apse of the Notre-Dame church.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Vogüé (FR)

26 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 5: Maison Millière

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The Millière house is a 15th-century Gothic half-timbered house in Dijon, 10 rue de la Chouette, in the Côte-d'Or. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1943.

Wikipedia: Maison Millière (FR)

126 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: La Chouette

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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.

Wikipedia: Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon (EN)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 7: Tour Philippe Le Bon

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The Philippe le Bon Tower of the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in Dijon in Côte-d'Or is a Classical and Renaissance style tower of the fifteenth century under the Duke of Burgundy Philippe le Bon.

Wikipedia: Tour Philippe le Bon (FR)

139 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Théâtre Municipal

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The Grand Théâtre de Dijon is a theatre located in Dijon.

Wikipedia: Grand Théâtre de Dijon (FR), Website

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Ancienne Église Saint-Etienne

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The Church of Saint-Étienne is a former disused Catholic church located in the remarkable heritage site of Dijon. It now houses the Rude Museum and the municipal library of Dijon Centre-ville la Nef since the move in 2007 of the Dijon Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as cultural services including the documentation centre of the Museum of Fine Arts. The church dates from the fifteenth century and was restored in the seventeenth century. Its current Jesuit-style façade dates from the eighteenth century.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Étienne de Dijon (FR)

99 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 10: Église Saint-Michel

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The Saint-Michel church, located in the protected area of Dijon, is a sixteenth-century church famous for its Renaissance façade, considered one of the most beautiful in France. It is classified as a historical monument by the list of 1840.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Michel de Dijon (FR)

226 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Porte de l'Ancien Evêché

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The Porte de l'ancien évêché is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Wikipedia: Porte de l'ancien évêché (FR)

9 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 12: Hôtel de Vienne

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The Hôtel de Vienne is a private mansion in the city of Dijon, France, located at 32 rue Chabot-Charny, in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Vienne (FR)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Musée Magnin

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Musée Magnin

The Musée Magnin is a national museum in the French city of Dijon in Burgundy, in the Côte-d'Or department, with a collection of around 2,000 works of art collected by Maurice Magnin and his sister Jeanne and bequeathed to the state in 1938, along with the hôtel Lantin, a 17th-century hôtel particulier in the old-town quarter of Dijon where it is now displayed as an amateur collector's cabinet of curiosities and as the Magnin family home.

Wikipedia: Musée Magnin (EN), Website

110 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Hôtel de Talmay

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The Hôtel de Talmay is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located at 3 rue Vauban, in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Talmay (FR)

61 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Hôtel du Président Bouhier

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The Hôtel Bouhier de Savigny is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area at 12 rue Vauban. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1928.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Bouhier de Savigny (FR)

243 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Hôtel de Gissey

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The Hôtel Millotet or de Gissey is a private mansion located at 17 rue Piron, in Dijon in the Côte-d'Or.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Gissey (FR)

118 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 17: Hôtel Fevret de Saint-Mesmin

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Hôtel Fevret de Saint-Mesmin photography taken by Christophe.Finot / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Hôtel Févret de Saint-Mesmin is a private mansion in the city of Dijon, France, located in its protected area. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1928.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Févret de Saint-Mesmin (FR)

29 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 18: Hôtel de Lux

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The Hôtel de Lux is one of the private mansions surrounding Place Bossuet in the protected area of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or region of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Lux (FR)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 19: Ancienne Église Saint-Jean

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The Church of Saint-Jean de Dijon is a disused Catholic church in the flamboyant Gothic style of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, located in Dijon in Côte-d'Or in Burgundy-Franche-Comté and dedicated to John the Apostle. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1862 and has been home to the Dijon-Bourgogne Theatre since 1974.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Jean de Dijon (FR)

40 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 20: Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne

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The Dijon-Bourgogne Theatre (TDB) is the national drama centre of Dijon. Located on Place Bossuet in the church of Saint-Jean in Dijon, known as the "Parvis Saint-Jean", it also has another smaller room, the Jacques Fornier room, located on rue d'Ahuy.

Wikipedia: Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne (FR), Website

94 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 21: Ancienne Église Saint-Philibert

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The Church of Saint-Philibert is a disused church in Dijon located on rue Michelet, near the cathedral of Saint-Bénigne. Built in the twelfth century, Saint-Philibert is the only Romanesque religious building in Dijon, with the exception of its porch, its north chapels, and its Gothic-style stone bell tower which dates from the early sixteenth century.

Wikipedia: Église Saint-Philibert de Dijon (FR)

97 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 22: Théâtre des Feuillants

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39 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 23: Maison dite Le Petit Cîteaux

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The house Le Petit Cîteaux is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Wikipedia: Maison Le Petit Cîteaux (FR)

56 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 24: Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne

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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.

Wikipedia: Dijon Cathedral (EN)

92 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 25: École nationale des Beaux-Arts

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The former abbey palace of Saint-Bénigne de Dijon is a building located in the French city of Dijon.

Wikipedia: Palais_abbatial_Saint-Bénigne (FR)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 26: Maison aux Trois Visages

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The House with Three Faces is a 15th-century half-timbered house in Dijon in the Côte-d'Or, at the corner of 54, 56 rue de la Liberté and 1 rue Bossuet. It has been classified as a historical monument since February 3, 1971.

Wikipedia: Maison aux Trois Visages (FR)

40 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 27: Hôtel Burteur

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The Hôtel Burteur is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located at 68 rue de la Liberté in the protected sector.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Burteur (FR)

140 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 28: Hôtel Aubriot

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

Wikipedia: Hôtel Aubriot (Dijon) (FR)

211 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 29: Hôtel des Godrans

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The Hôtel des Godrans or Hôtel Godran is a 15th-century mansion with a Burgundy glazed tile roof in Dijon in the Côte-d'Or region of Burgundy-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.

Wikipedia: Hôtel des Godrans (FR)

156 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 30: Hôtel Lebault

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The Hôtel Lebault is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Lebault (FR)

130 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 31: Hôtel Saint-Père

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The Hôtel Saint-Père is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Saint-Père (FR)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 32: Halles Centrales

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The central halls of Dijon are halls in metal architecture built from 1873 to 1875 in Dijon, in Côte-d'Or, in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. They have been listed as historical monuments since 1975.

Wikipedia: Halles du marché de Dijon (FR)

257 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 33: Cellier de Clairvaux

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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 center of Dijon in Côte-d'Or in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Currently the municipal hall, it has been classified as a historical monument since 1915, 1917, and 1921.

Wikipedia: Cellier de Clairvaux (FR)

206 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 34: Hôtel Esmonin de Dampierre

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The Hôtel Esmonin de Dampierre is an eighteenth-century mansion in the city of Dijon, France, located in its protected sector.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Esmonin de Dampierre (FR)

165 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 35: Hôtel Pouffier

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The Hotel Pouffier is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Pouffier (FR)

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 36: Hôtel de Noident

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The Hôtel de Noident is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1947.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Noident (FR)

87 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 37: Hôtel de Saulx

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The Hôtel de Saulx is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area. It has been listed as a historical monument since 1947.

Wikipedia: Hôtel de Saulx (FR)

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 38: Lycée général et technologique Carnot

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The Lycée Carnot is a local public educational institution located in Dijon, inaugurated on July 31, 1893. It is the oldest high school in Dijon, created in 1802 as an Imperial High School, 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.

Wikipedia: Lycée Carnot (Dijon) (FR)

528 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 39: La Villa

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The Villa Messner is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Wikipedia: Villa_Messner (FR), Facebook

184 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 40: Monument à la République Fraternelle des Peuples

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

Wikipedia: Monument Sadi Carnot de Dijon (FR)

605 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 41: Usine de biscuits Pernot (ancienne)

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The Pernot biscuit factory is a former factory transformed into housing, located in Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.

Wikipedia: Usine_des_biscuits_Pernot (FR)

286 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 42: Statue de Saint-Bernard

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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.

Wikipedia: Monument to Bernard of Clairvaux (Dijon) (EN)

489 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 43: Grand Hôtel La Cloche

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The Grand Hotel la Cloche is a five-star hotel located at 14 Place Darcy in Dijon. Its facades and roofs are listed as historical monuments.

Wikipedia: Grand hôtel la Cloche (FR), Website, Facebook

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 44: Darcy Square

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Darcy Square This photo was taken by Eusebius (Guillaume Piolle).Feel free to reuse it, but always credit me as the author as specified below. / CC BY 3.0

The Darcy Garden or Square Darcy is a nineteenth-century neo-Renaissance public garden on Place Darcy, in the city center of Dijon in the Côte-d'Or. It is dedicated to the hydraulic engineer Henry Darcy (1803-1858) and has been listed as a historical monument since 2015.

Wikipedia: Jardin Darcy (FR)

227 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 45: Porte Guillaume

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The Porte Guillaume is a monument in Dijon dating from the eighteenth century, erected on the site of an old gate from the Middle Ages.

Wikipedia: Porte Guillaume (Dijon) (FR)

251 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 46: Musée archéologique de Dijon

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Musée archéologique de Dijon

The Musée Archéologique de Dijon is an archaeology museum focusing on the archaeology of Burgundy that was founded in 1832, in Côte-d'Or within Dijon, France. It contains collections regarding "the men of Burgandy" that covers the periods of prehistory, protohistory, the rule of Ancient Rome, and the Middle Ages as well as collections of paleochristian art, sacred art, and church architecture. The museum's collection and location have been housed since 1934, in the main wing of the Abbey of St. Bénigne, situated next door to the Dijon Cathedral.

Wikipedia: Musée Archéologique de Dijon (EN), Website

658 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 47: Jardin de l'Arquebuse

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Jardin de l'Arquebuse photography taken by Christophe.Finot / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Jardin botanique de l'Arquebuse is a botanical garden and arboretum located at 1 Avenue Albert-Premier, Dijon, Côte-d'Or, Bourgogne, France. It is open daily without charge.

Wikipedia: Jardin botanique de l'Arquebuse (EN)

59 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 48: Benigne Legouz de Gerland

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Benigne Legouz de Gerland photography taken by Christophe.Finot / CC BY-SA 3.0

Bénigne Legouz de Gerland", born in Dijon in 1695 and died in the same city in 1774, squire, lord of Magny-sur-Tille, Gerland and Jancigny, was a notable, a patron of the arts and an academician.

Wikipedia: Bénigne Le Gouz de Gerland (FR)

638 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 49: Chapelle des Climats

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The Grande Chapelle is located in the former Dijon General Hospital. Built from the sixteenth century as the hospital's sick room, it was remodelled several times to become a chapel from 1843 to 2015, the date of its execration. It now serves as an exhibition room within the Cité internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin. Its façade and interior are classified as historical monuments.

Wikipedia: Grande Chapelle de l'hôpital général de Dijon (FR)

22 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 50: Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin

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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 general hospital of Dijon. Its mission is to promote both the gastronomic meal of the French and the "climats" of the Burgundy vineyards, both of which are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The complex was inaugurated on May 6, 2022.

Wikipedia: Cité internationale de la gastronomie et du vin (FR), Website

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