Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Dijon, France
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8.8 km
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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 DijonSight 1: Hôtel Nicolas Rolin
The Hotel Rolin is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located at 8 rue Jeannin, in its protected area.
Sight 2: Maison des Cariatides
The house of the Caryatids is located at no. 28, rue Chaudronnerie, in Dijon.
Sight 3: Hôtel Bénigne Malyon
The Hotel Bénigne Malyon is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.
Sight 4: Hôtel de Vogüé
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.
Sight 5: Maison Millière
Get Ticket*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.
Sight 6: La Chouette
Get Ticket*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.
Sight 7: Tour Philippe Le Bon
Get Ticket*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.
Sight 8: Théâtre Municipal
The Grand Théâtre de Dijon is a theatre located in Dijon.
Sight 9: Ancienne Église Saint-Etienne
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.
Sight 10: Église Saint-Michel
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.
Sight 11: Porte de l'Ancien Evêché
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.
Sight 12: Hôtel de Vienne
The Hôtel de Vienne is a private mansion in the city of Dijon, France, located at 32 rue Chabot-Charny, in its protected area.
Sight 13: 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.
Sight 14: Hôtel de Talmay
The Hôtel de Talmay is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located at 3 rue Vauban, in its protected area.
Sight 15: Hôtel du Président Bouhier
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.
Sight 16: Hôtel de Gissey
The Hôtel Millotet or de Gissey is a private mansion located at 17 rue Piron, in Dijon in the Côte-d'Or.
Sight 17: Hôtel Fevret de Saint-Mesmin
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.
Sight 18: Hôtel de Lux
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.
Sight 19: Ancienne Église Saint-Jean
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.
Sight 20: Théâtre Dijon-Bourgogne
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.
Sight 21: Ancienne Église Saint-Philibert
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.
Sight 22: Théâtre des Feuillants
Sight 23: Maison dite Le Petit Cîteaux
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.
Sight 24: Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne
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.
Sight 25: École nationale des Beaux-Arts
The former abbey palace of Saint-Bénigne de Dijon is a building located in the French city of Dijon.
Sight 26: Maison aux Trois Visages
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.
Sight 27: Hôtel Burteur
The Hôtel Burteur is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located at 68 rue de la Liberté in the protected sector.
Sight 28: Hôtel Aubriot
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.
Sight 29: Hôtel des Godrans
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.
Sight 30: Hôtel Lebault
The Hôtel Lebault is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.
Sight 31: Hôtel Saint-Père
The Hôtel Saint-Père is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.
Sight 32: Halles Centrales
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.
Sight 33: Cellier de Clairvaux
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.
Sight 34: Hôtel Esmonin de Dampierre
The Hôtel Esmonin de Dampierre is an eighteenth-century mansion in the city of Dijon, France, located in its protected sector.
Sight 35: Hôtel Pouffier
The Hotel Pouffier is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area.
Sight 36: Hôtel de Noident
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.
Sight 37: Hôtel de Saulx
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.
Sight 38: Lycée général et technologique Carnot
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.
Sight 39: La Villa
The Villa Messner is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Sight 40: Monument à la République Fraternelle des Peuples
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.
Sight 41: Usine de biscuits Pernot (ancienne)
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.
Sight 42: Statue de Saint-Bernard
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.
Sight 43: Grand Hôtel La Cloche
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.
Sight 44: Darcy Square
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.
Sight 45: Porte Guillaume
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.
Sight 46: 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.
Sight 47: Jardin de l'Arquebuse
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.
Sight 48: Benigne Legouz de Gerland
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.
Sight 49: Chapelle des Climats
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)
Sight 50: Cité Internationale de la Gastronomie et du Vin
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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