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.
Below - The construction of the Notre Dame Cathedral, completed in 1345, is a Gothic masterpiece with an amazing facade and famous Rose Window. For detailed information, click here.
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Below - The Louvre in Paris, is one of the most famous and most visited museums in the world and holds some of the world's most famous works of art, including Venus de Milo, Mona Lisa, The Winged Victory of Sarmothrace, as well as works by works by Titian, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, and more. For the official site, click here.
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You are viewing Dijon and the Louvre, page 8 of my Viking Burgundy River Cruise travel journey
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Page 2 - Arles, France
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Page 4 - Tournon and Tain L'Hermitage
Page 5 - Vienne
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Page 7 - Chalon-sur-Saone and Beaune
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