Below - Dijon, France, is the capital city of Burgundy and France's prestigous wine country has one of the best preserved medieval centers in France. It is easy to see the all the sites because Dijon's town layout offers with lots of pedestrian walking streets. The rue de la Libertie forms the spine of the town, running east from the wide, attractive place Darcy and the eighteenth-century triumphal arch of Porte Guillaume, once a city gate, past the palace of the dukes of Burgundy on the semicircular place de la Libration. Click each photo to enlarge; use your back button to return to this page.
Below - St. Chapelle was built in the 1240's to house relics from the Holy Land. It The small chapel's beauty is due mainly to the stained glass windows that surround the upper floor. More than 1100 Biblilcal scenes are depicted here, and they still reflect the same luminescence they did 700 years ago.