Dijon, France

[Minato ku]

Dijon is a city of 151,504 inhabitants and over 370,000 for the metropolitan area.
This city is located in Central eastern France, it is the capital and biggest city of Cote d'Or departement and Bourgogne region.

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[ganjavih]

Thanks for the tour. Imagine if North American cities of 150,000 inhabitants were set up like that. Such a pity that modern cities of that size look more like this:

 

[Tewder]

Well I suppose you could argue that Kingston would be the closest we have to it?

 

[Minato ku]

Thanks for the tour. Imagine if North American cities of 150,000 inhabitants were set up like that. Such a pity that modern cities of that size look more like this:

Dijon also has districts like that.

 

[Urban Shocker]

Please show us some of the photographs then!

What I find appealing about commercial streets such as these is that while many of the buildings are quite ordinary they haven't been tarted up with garish signage, or plastered top-to-toe with coloured stucco, or covered in graffiti "art", or made to look like billboards like many of our local equivalents. I wish we could dial back our streetscapes to obtain similarly sensible and monochromatic results - more architecture to see, and less of the competitive, compulsive garishness that covers our buildings.

 

[Minato ku]

I don't have any pics but believe me every city, town (at least over 10,000 inh) of France have these ugly sprawling and car dependant commercial area.
It is even more signifiant in the little towns, in France many centers of little towns (under 30,000 inhabitants) are dead because people do their shop in those ugly area.
It is not for no reason that Carrefour is the second most important retail company in the world.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Dijon,France pics...

MK: Good pics of Dijon,France here-I thought that the City has a strong old style European appearance to it.
I will ask about these: #6,11-What is the monument in those pics?
#52-This is quite an interesting building - what is it if you know?
LI MIKE

 

[Minato ku]

#6,11-Porte Guillaume in Dracy square
#52-That's why I photographied it but i don't know what it is.

Honestly I don't know at all Dijon, it was just a short stop that I made between Paris and Lyon (where live in grand parent).
Dijon is wealthy, beautiful anyway it feel a bit small.

I love to see the buses of Dijon, the large majority of the rolling stock are Van Hool buses, the two only place where I can these buses in Paris area are in CDG and Orly airports.