Dijon Sights

  1. 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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  2. 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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