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Archaeological Museum
The Musée Archéologique displays some truly surprising Celtic, Roman and Merovingian artefacts, including a particularly fine 1st-century bronze of the goddess Sequana standing on a boat. Upstairs is an early-Gothic hall which once served as the dormitory of a Benedictine Abbey. Its splendid ogival arches are held aloft by two rows of columns.
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Cathédrale St-Bénigne
Situated above the tomb of St Benignus (who is believed to have brought Christianity to Burgundy in the 2nd century), Dijon's Burgundian Gothic-style Cathédrale St-Bénigne was built around 1300 as an abbey church. Some of Burgundy's great figures are buried inside. The crypt is all that's left of an 11th-century Romanesque basilica.
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Église St-Michel
Église St-Michel began life as a Gothic church but subsequently underwent a façade-lift operation in which it was given a richly ornamented Renaissance west front considered among the most beautiful in France, perhaps because it looks like it should be in Italy. The two 17th-century towers are topped with cupolas and, higher still, glittering gold spheres.
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Hôtel de Vogüé
The 17th-century Hôtel de Vogüé is renowned for the ornate carvings around its exquisite Renaissance courtyard - definitely worth a peek into.
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Maison des Cariatides
Many of Dijon's finest hôtels particuliers (aristocratic townhouses) are north of the Palais des Ducs on and around rues Verrerie, Vannerie and des Forges, whose names reflect the industries that once thrived along them (glassmakers, basket-weavers and metalsmiths, respectively). The early-17th-century Maison des Cariatides, its façade a riot of stone caryatids, vines and horns, is particularly fine.
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Maison Millière
Perched high atop the roof of the 15th-century Maison Millière are figures of an owl and a cat.
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Musée Archéologique
The Musée Archéologique displays some truly surprising Celtic, Roman and Merovingian artefacts, including a particularly fine 1st-century bronze of the goddess Sequana standing on a boat. Upstairs, the early-Gothic hall (12th and 13th centuries), with its ogival arches held aloft by two rows of columns, once served as the dormitory of a Benedictine abbey.
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Musée de la Moutarde
Homage to Dijon's most famous export can be paid at the Musée de la Moutarde. Reserve at the tourist office.
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Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne
The Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne, in a 17th-century Cistercian convent, explores village and town life in Burgundy in centuries past with evocative tableaux illustrating dress, headgear, cooking, traditional crafts and the like.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
Housed in the eastern wing of the Palais des Ducs, the Musée des Beaux-Arts is one of the most outstanding museums in France. The wood-panelled Salle des Gardes (Guards' Room), once warmed by a gargantuan fireplace that's as Gothic as Gothic can be, houses three impossibly intricate gilded Gothic retables from the 1300s and the late-medieval sepulchres of two Valois dukes.
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Palais des Ducs et des États de Bourgogne
Once home to the region's powerful dukes, the Palais des Ducs et des États de Bourgogne is in the heart of old Dijon. Given a neoclassical façade in the 17th and 18th centuries while serving as the seat of the States-General (parliament) of Burgundy, it overlooks place de la Libération, a semicircular public square designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart (one of the architects of Versailles) in 1686.
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Tour Phillipe le Bon
The 15th-century Tour Philippe le Bon is 46m-high and naturally affords fantastic views over the city. Rumour has it that on a clear day you can see all the way to Mont Blanc. Face your vertigo and see for yourself.
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