From Divio to Dijon

Sources and credits

Each page lists its sources. Priority is given to sources from the City of Dijon, Dijon Métropole, the tourist office and the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Region.

Sources by era

Divio, the Roman fortress

Saint-Bénigne and the early Middle Ages

The great fire and the Capetian dukes

The golden age of the Valois dukes

Dijon becomes French

The town of the magistrates

The century of the canal and the railway

Wars, Liberation and Canon Kir

Dijon today

Sources by place

The castrum of Divio

Saint-Étienne

Saint-Bénigne

Saint-Philibert church

The town walls

From the hospital to the Cité de la gastronomie

Talant

Notre-Dame of Dijon

Palace of the Dukes and States of Burgundy

Champmol Charterhouse

Louis XI’s castle

Courthouse (Parliament of Burgundy)

Maison Millière

Rue des Forges and Hôtel Chambellan

Saint-Michel church

House of the Caryatids

Hôtel de Vogüé

Arquebuse garden

Place de la Libération

Rue de la Liberté

Dijon mustard

Gingerbread and blackcurrant

Porte Guillaume

Burgundy Canal and the canal port

Grand Théâtre

Dijon-Ville station

Les Halles

Darcy garden

Montmuzard campus

Lake Kir

The tram

City map

Streets and buildings come from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL licence). The dates of ordinary houses are simulated from the historical growth of the city; the outlines of the castrum, the medieval walls and the Suzon are approximate.

Technology

3D rendering with three.js (MIT licence), pixel effect adapted from RenderPixelatedPass (Kody King, MIT licence). Pixelify Sans and Alegreya fonts (SIL Open Font licence).

Site licence

Texts and site under a Creative Commons BY-NC 4.0 licence, by Guillaume Maurice.