Église Notre-Dame

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Notre Dame church, 13th century gothic church, city of Dijon, department of Cote d'Or, France

Built between 1220 and 1240, this Gothic masterpiece greets you with an extraordinary façade whose three tiers of leering gargoyles are separated by two rows of pencil-thin columns. High atop the façade, the 14th-century Horloge à Jacquemart – brought here from Belgium, as a trophy of war, by Philip the Bold in 1383 – chimes every quarter-hour.

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