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Besançon
Besançon (, ; , ; archaic ; ) is the capital of the Departments of France, 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. Capital of the historic and cultural region of Franche-Comté, Besançon is home to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council headquarters, and is an important administrative centre in the region. It is also the seat of one of the fifteen French ecclesiastical provinces and one of the two 1st Armored Division (France), divisions of the French Army. In 2022 the city had a population of 120,057, in a metropolitan area of 284,474, the second in the region in terms of population. Established in a meander of the river Doubs (river), Doubs, the city was already important during the Gallo-Roman era under the name of ''Vesontio'', capital of the Sequani. Its geography and specific history turned it into a military stronghold, a garrison city, a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Citadel Of Besançon
The Citadel of Besançon (, ) is a 17th-century fortress in Franche-Comté, France. It is one of the finest masterpieces of military architecture designed by Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The Citadel occupies on Mount Saint-Etienne, one of the seven hills that protect Besançon, the capital of Franche-Comté. Mount Saint-Etienne occupies the neck of an oxbow formed by the river Doubs, giving the site a strategic importance that Julius Caesar recognised as early as 58 BC. The Citadel overlooks the old quarter of the city, which is located within the oxbow, and has views of the city and its surroundings. The fortification is well preserved. Today it is an important tourist site (over a quarter of a million visitors per year) due both to its own characteristics and because it is the site of several museums. These museums include a museum of the Resistance and deportation, a museum focusing on traditional life in Franche-Comté and the region's archeological history, and a museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Besançon Cathedral
Besançon Cathedral () is a Roman Catholic church architecture, church dedicated to John the Apostle, Saint John located in the city of Besançon, France. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Besançon. The cathedral consists of a large nave between two aisles, and dates from the 11th to the 13th century. It has two facing apses, each with an altar. The lack of a transept and the facing apses parallel the designs of contemporary German cathedrals. The Romanesque arches date from the 13th century. It does not have a main doorway. The choir dates to the 18th century. The cathedral is situated near the base of Mont Saint-Étienne, below the citadel. To the east of the cathedral is the 16th-century Porte Rivotte, with two round towers, and pedestrian walkways dating to the 19th century. To the west is the Porte Noire, a Ancient Rome, Roman triumphal arch of the 2nd century with extensive sculptural decoration. History Between 1127 and 1161 the cathedral was rebuilt on the foundation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hôtel De Ville, Besançon
The (, ''City Hall'') is a municipal building in Besançon, Doubs, eastern France, standing on Place du 8-Septembre. It was designated a ''monument historique'' by the French government in 1912. History An early town hall was established on Place Saint-Pierre (now Place du 8-Septembre) between 1393 and 1397. In 1569, local officials decided to reconstruct the building on the same site. The new building was designed by Richard Maire in the Renaissance style, using multi-coloured stones from the Forest of Chailluz, and was completed in 1573. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage with nine ground floor bays facing onto the Place Saint-Pierre. The central bay featured a round headed opening with voussoirs and a keystone surmounted by a carving of an eagle rising into a broken pediment. The bay to the right of the centre bay was slightly projected forward and featured a tall niche, which originally contained a statue of Charles V riding a double-headed eagle. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Besançon Métropole
Grand Besançon Métropole is the urban community (''communauté urbaine''), an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Besançon. It is located in the Doubs department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, northeastern France. It was created in January 2021 ''Communauté d'agglomération Grand Besançon'', which was transformed into an urban community on 1 July 2019. 19 June 2019, p. 151 Its area is 528.6 km2. Its population was 198,387 in 2022, of which 120,057 (60%) in Besançon proper.Comparateur de territoire INSEE. 5 April 2022. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubs
Doubs (, ; ; ) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the river Doubs, it had a population of 543,974 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 25 Doubs INSEE Its is and subprefectures are Montbéliard and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franche-Comté
Franche-Comté (, ; ; Frainc-Comtou dialect, Frainc-Comtou: ''Fraintche-Comtè''; ; also ; ; all ) is a cultural and Provinces of France, historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of France, departments of Doubs (department), Doubs, Jura (department), Jura, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort. In 2021, its population was 1,179,601. From 1956 to 2015, the Franche-Comté was a Regions of France, French administrative region. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region is named after the ' (Free County of Burgundy), definitively separated from the region of Burgundy proper in the fifteenth century. In 2016, these two-halves of the historic Kingdom of Burgundy were reunited, as the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It is also the 6th biggest region in France. The name "Franche-Comté" is feminine because the word "comté" in the past was generally feminine, although today it is masculine. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porte Noire
The Porte Noire (literally, "Black Gate") is a Roman triumphal arch in Besançon, France. The limestone arch was located at the southern end of the ''cardo'', the main north-to-south route of a Roman city. It measured 5.6 metres in width and 11.2 metres in height, and its two facades were identical, of which the northern one is the better preserved. History The arch lacks a dedication, but research has dated it to the second half of the second century AD, and the reign of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. It is believed that depictions of war show the victories of his adoptive brother and co-emperor Lucius Verus in the Roman–Parthian War of 161–166. Disturbances by the local Sequani Gallic tribe around 175 AD may have been the trigger event for erecting the arch, as a tribute to Marcus Aurelius restoring peace. A differing hypothesis is that the arch commemorates the same emperor's victory over Germanic peoples in 176 AD, and that this would be more likely than an arch remembering i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections of December 2015, electing 100 members to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The region covers an area of and eight departments; it had a population of 2,811,423 in 2017. Its prefecture and largest city is Dijon, although the regional council sits in Besançon, making Bourgogne-Franche-Comté one of two regions in France (along with Normandy) in which the prefect does not sit in the same city as the regional council. Toponymy The text of the territorial reform law gives interim names for most of the merged regions, combining the names of their constituent regions separated by hyphens. Permanent names would be proposed by the new regional councils an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1st Armored Division (France)
The 1st Armored Division () is a unit of the French Army formed during World War II that took part in the Liberation of France. The division was dissolved for the first time in 1946, and was recommissioned in 1948. It was dissolved again in 1999 as a consequence of the professionalization of the French military. The 1st Mechanised Brigade (1re BM), created on July 1, 1999, inherited the division's traditions. The 1st Mechanised Brigade was again dissolved on July 21, 2015. The 1st Division (1re DIV) was recreated in 2016. Creation and different names * The 1st Armored Division (1re DB) was created on May 1, 1943. * It was dissolved on March 31, 1946. * The 1st Armored Division was recreated in 1948. * On July 1, 1999, the 1st Mechanised Brigade (1re BM) inherited the traditions of the division. * The 1st Mechanised Brigade was dissolved on July 21, 2015. * The 1st Division (1re DIV) was recreated on July 1, 2016, part of the Scorpion Force alongside the 3rd Division. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ecologists
The Ecologists – Europe Ecology The Greens (), commonly known as The Ecologists (, LE) and formerly as Europe Ecology The Greens ( , EELV ) until 2023, is a centre-left to left-wing green political party in France. The party is a member of the European Green Party. It was formed on 13 November 2010 from the merger of The Greens and Europe Ecology. History Party foundation Following the 2008 municipal elections, The Greens sought to increase their political influence. Echoing these calls, Daniel Cohn-Bendit proposed the creation of open electoral lists for the 2009 European elections and the Greens' leadership allowed for the exploration of this possibility. Europe Ecology (EE), launched in the autumn of 2008, allowed The Greens to create a wider electoral alliance with environmentalists and social activists who had not been party members in the past. The new structure included, alongside longtime Green politicians, new activists or environmentalists such as Jean-Paul Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doubs (river)
The Doubs ( ; ; ; ) is a river in far eastern France which strays into western Switzerland. It is a bank (geography), left-bank tributary of the Saône. It rises near Mouthe in the western Jura mountains, at and its mouth is at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs, a village and commune in Saône-et-Loire at about above sea level. It is the tenth-longest river in France. The most populous settlement of the basin lies on its banks, Besançon. Its course includes a small waterfall and a narrow lake. Course From its source in Mouthe it flows northeast: a few kilometers north of the French-Swiss border, then to form the border for less distance, about 40 km. North of the Swiss town of Saint-Ursanne it turns west then southwest. South-east of Montbéliard it adopts a southwest striation or fault of the Jura Mountains, flowing so over greater distance than the flow it has traced before. It then flows into the Saône at Verdun-sur-le-Doubs about northeast of Chalon-sur-Saône. The shape of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canton Of Besançon-1
The canton of Besançon-1 (, ) is an administrative division of the Doubs department, eastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Besançon. It consists of the following communes: # Avanne-Aveney #Besançon (partly) #Chemaudin et Vaux Chemaudin et Vaux () is a commune in the department of Doubs, eastern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Chemaudin (the seat) and Vaux-les-Prés. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
