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Until 2016, Besançon was the capital of the Franche-Comté administrative région of France, a région including the four départements of Doubs, Haute-Saône, Jura and Territoire de Belfort. Franche-Comté was since merged with the neighbouring region of Burgundy, and the "préfecture" was transferred to the city of Dijon.
Besançon - the jewel of eastern France. Cradled in a loop of the river Doubs, at the foot of its towering citadel, the ancient city of Besançon is one of the best preserved historic cities in France. In pre-Roman times, it was the capital of an area known as Sequania. When the area was conquered by the Romans, Julius Caesar described this ...
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Besançon is an old city. It is discovered in 58 BC and Julius Caesar writes about it in his book Commentarii de Bello Gallico where it is called Vesontio. The etymology (origin of the word) is not certain. It could have a Celtic origin. The Celtic word wes means mountain. In the 4th century, the letter B became V. The city name changed to Besontio ...
Besançon has an oceanic climate and a continental climate. The average temperature is 10.2 °C (50 °F). The warmest month of the year is July (18.9 °C or 66 °F) and the coldest month is January (1.6 °C or 35 °F). Besançon receives about 1108 mm (44 inches) of precipitation per year. The wettest month is May (111.4 mm or 4.4 in); the driest is July (...
Besançon is twinned with: 1. Tver, Russia 2. Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany 3. Kuopio, Finland 4. Huddersfield – Kirklees, United Kingdom 5. Bielsko-Biała, Poland 6. Neuchâtel, Switzerland 7. Bistriţa, Romania 8. Pavia, Italy 9. Hadera, Israel 10. Douroula, Burkina Faso 11. Man, Côte d'Ivoire 12. Charlottesville– Virginia, United States
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Besançon is a well-preserved Renaissance city and the historic part in the "Boucle" of the river is beautiful, with the remains of a Roman theatre in Castan Square, its eight Roman Corinthian columns among the most ancient of the town's attractions. 47.231389 6.0325. 1 The Citadel ( Citadelle de Besançon ). Built by the famous architect ...
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The Free Imperial City of Besançon was a self-governing free imperial city that was part of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Besançon . From 1184 until 1654 the city of Besançon was a free imperial city ( German: Freie Reichsstadt) as shown by the coat of arms until today and called Bisanz. The city was first separated from the ...
Nov 16, 2018 · Besançon [1] is the capital of the region Franche-Comté in France. It is also the capital of the département Doubs, and has a population of approximately 115,000 people, called Bisontins in French. Although not frequently visited by tourists, Besançon has one of the most beautiful town centres of France and is certainly worth a detour.
Besançon is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland.
