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Chapelle St Etienne, Besancon, France 2009
The citadel
Not the dome I overlooked!
TGV trains
Visiting Besançon,ý discovered that native people are very friendly and helpful.In Besançon there is a cultural feature,when a man meets with a woman or girl kisses from her &his cheek one man one woman,when a man meets with a man they shake hands.Later ý learnt that kissing and hugging is a particul cultural feature in France and the number of kisses from cheek change according to cities.In some cities the number of kisses may be three or four!
La Source de la Loue
Spontaneous spring rushing out of the mountain side with no apparent origin. I am not even sure people know where the water is coming from, the underground of the region worst than a swiss cheese.
In this building French writer and poet Victor Huge (1802 - 1885) was born. But actually he just lived for two weeks in Besançon, because his family just stayed in town to visit his grandfather who was garrisoned in Besançon.
In another house on Place Victor Hugo (northern end) Auguste and Louis Lumière (1862-1954 and 1864-1948) were born. They eventually invented cinematography.
You can see the "faces" of all these famous sons of Besançon in different windows at Place Victor Hugo.
There are many churches, including a citadel and a zoo, lots of sight seeing shops and place togo even a cinema too. and at night pubs clubs and bars.
In Besancon there are alot of fountains this is just one of them, there are old ones new one, modern style ones, plain ones , highly decorative ones etc. they like their water features , they are like mini art works in the square, this town is very clean, infact spotless.
This river rises quite alot when it rains, when i did my work experience over here i worked somewhere on the right hand side.
Puits et Chapelle St Etienne
- well and chapel
Puits -left
-the well house of the 4 meter / 13 foot wheel necessary to draw water from the citadel’s 132 meter / 433 foot deep well
constructed: 1692
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Chapelle St Etienne -right
-citadel’s chapel
constructed: 1683
restored: 1848 afer destruction during the French Revolution
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-the first citadel gate when approaching from the town. Beyond its wall is a vast defensive open field before reaching the citadel’s second gate and wall.
-main gate to the citadel's interior
-rear gate and currently the access to the Zoo and Museum of Natural History, one of four museums in the citadel. The others are the Heritage Museum, the Vauban Museum and the Museum to the Resistance and Deportation.
-citadel’s barracks and main courtyard
- officers‘ quarters
-city gate
constructed: 16th century
modified: 1893, the pedestrian thoroughfares were created
Besancon’s main train station
constructed: 1963, replaced the 1855 station destroyed by the British 15 July 1943 during WWII
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