Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #6 in Dijon, France
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5.8 km
70 m
Explore Dijon in France with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.
Activities in DijonIndividual Sights in DijonSight 1: Musée de la vie bourguignonne Perrin de Puycousin
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.
Wikipedia: Musée de la vie bourguignonne Perrin de Puycousin (FR), Website
Sight 2: Église Sainte-Anne
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.
Sight 3: Hôtel Frantin
The Hotel Frantin or Cirey is a private mansion in the city of Dijon located in its protected area at 62 Chabot-Charny Street.
Sight 4: Porte Saint-Pierre
The Porte Saint-Pierre is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Sight 5: Synagogue de Dijon
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.
Sight 6: Kiosque à musique
The Dijon Bandstand, is an Art Nouveau style bandstand. It has been classified as a historical monument since 1972.
Sight 7: Porte des allées du parc
The gate to the park's alleys is a 17th-century Dijon monument erected on the Place du Président-Wilson.
Sight 8: Cinéma Eldorado
The Cinéma Eldorado is an independent arthouse cinema complex in Dijon in the Côte-d'Or.
Sight 9: Maison Creusot
The Maison Creusot is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Sight 10: Ancienne Poudrière
The Dijon Powder Magazine is a building located in the city of Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.
Sight 11: Liquid Knowledge
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.
Sight 12: Improvisations Tellem
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.
Sight 13: Hommage à Jacques Monod
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.
Sight 14: Anti-Robot
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.
Sight 15: Tente
Yaacov Agam is an Israeli sculptor and experimental artist widely known for his contributions to optical and kinetic art.
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