Visit «Vauban un autre regard»

Name: Visita «Vauban otra mirada»
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Citadelle de Besançon - Patrimoine mondial

Vauban was an engineer and a military ... but not only! Go and meet a Vauban who was more of a philosopher, a reformer, a modern. During a visit to the citadel, you will discover...

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

Vauban was an engineer and a military ... but not only! Go and meet a Vauban who was more of a philosopher, a reformer, a modern. During a visit to the citadel, while discovering its writings, you will take a fresh look at this unique spirit of the Great Century.
This visit is part of the anniversary of the 15 years of the inscription of Vauban’s work on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

About the location

Citadelle de Besançon - Patrimoine mondial

99 rue des Fusillés de la Résistance 25000 Besançon

Doubs
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Head - of work of Vauban registered on the UNESCO world heritage, the Citadel of Besançon is considered as one of the most beautiful of France. It was principally built between 1678 and 1683, and not much changed in the XVIIIth century. It overhangs more than hundred metres the old city of the from the Franche-Comté capital fitted tightly round in a meander of the river Doubs, offering since its paths round the battlements of spectacular panoramas. Most unusual, learnt cultural and tourist centre mixes between history(story) and living world, the Citadel shelters behind its ramparts three Museums of France today: the Museum and its various wildlife spaces (Zoological Garden, Small firm, Aquarium, Insectarium, Noctarium), the From the Franche-Comté Museum, the Museum of Resistance and Deportation. A rich and various cultural programme planning(programming) as well as several formulae of visits are proposed to you throughout the year. Real dive in the past, multimedia immersif show "just to see her better" transports you in time(weather) and the space in the discovery of the strong moments which made history of Besançon and the Citadel. Walls, chorus(choir) and vault of the chapel Saint-Étienne, located in the heart of the fortress, become of huge surfaces of projection where if different episodes of an exciting history(story) égrainent.