The Palais des Ducs in Dijon, Burgundy, a world heritage city and cutlural sentre
The Palais des ducs et des États de Bourgogne is a remarkably well-preserved architectural assemblage in Dijon. The 14th and 15th century Gothic ducal palace is the oldest part and seat of the Dukes of Burgundy on place de la Liberation. It includes cour de Bar, the tour de Philippe le Bon, which is a "guette" overlooking the whole city, and tour de Bar. Most was built in the 17th and especially the 18th centuries, in a classical style, when the palace was a royal residence building and housed the estates of Burgundy. The Palace houses the city's town hall and the musée des Beaux-Arts. The Duchy of Burgundy was founded in the 9th century, around the year 880, from the Kingdom of Burgundy by the Carolingian kings of France, Louis III and Carloman II, and the Princes who shared the Carolingian Empire, after reorganizing the entire kingdom into duchies and counties. Richard, Count of Autun, known as "Richard the Justiciar", was named the first Margrave and Duke of Burgundy. He was one of the six in the French Peerageinstalled under his suzerain, King Louis III of France. Dijon is a city in eastern France, capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, later was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning and science. The city has retained varied architectural styles including Capetian, Gothic and Renaissance. Many still-inhabited town houses in the city's central district date from the 18th century and earlier. Dijon architecture is distinguished by, among other things, toits bourguignons (Burgundian polychrome roofs) made of tiles glazed in terracotta, green, yellow and black and arranged in geometric patterns. Dijon is famous for Dijon mustard which originated
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Location: Dijon, France
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