The centuries peel back as you walk through the narrow, winding cobblestone streets of Dijon’s Old City: 19th, 18th, 17th, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, remarkably, to the year 1000. You see the finest examples of architecture and art through the ages, created by some of the most famous and important architects, engineers and artists of their time: Eiffel, who was born here, Rude who did the famous "Les Marseilles" sculpture atop the Arc d'Triomphe, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, an architect of Versailles. There is nothing like Dijon’s Old City – the sheer expanse of time that is represented, the quality and quantity of structures and art, the immensity of the historic district that...

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