racetrack
Circuit de Dijon-Prenois
Fast, sweeping circuit in the Burgundy hills, immortalised by the wheel-banging Villeneuve-Arnoux duel at the 1979 French Grand Prix; still busy with track days and historic racing.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Bourgogne, France · Europe
Dijon is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Plombières-lès-Dijon, 29km from Route des Grands Crus.
Dijon is a city located in Bourgogne, France. With a population of 159,941, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Dijon sits in France, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Paris time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Dijon to your route.
Dijon (UK: , US: ; French: [diʒɔ̃] ; Burgundian: Digion) is a city and the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France. As of 2023, the population of the commune was 161,830, making it the most populous commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
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finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, located on the road between Lyon and Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries, and Dijon became a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning, and science.
The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic, and Renaissance. Many still-inhabited townhouses in the city's central district date from the 18th century and earlier. Dijon's architecture is distinguished by, among other things, toits bourguignons (Burgundian polychrome roofs) made of glazed terracotta tiles of various colours arranged in geometric patterns.
Dijon holds an International and Gastronomic Fair every year in the northern-hemisphere autumn. Dijon also hosts every three years the international flower show Florissimo. Dijon has become famous for Dijon mustard, which originated in 1856, when Jean Naigeon of Dijon substituted verjuice, the acidic "green" juice of not-quite-ripe grapes, for vinegar in the traditional mustard recipe. Dijon is a green city with an important tertiary sector, as well as a regional economic centre with a diversified fabric, a traditional food-processing center (Dijon crême de cassis and kir, gingerbread, Lanvin chocolate...) and a renowned pharmaceutical sector.
On 4 July 2015, UNESCO registered the historical centre of the city as a World Heritage site, as one of the components of the "Climats, terroirs of Burgundy" site, because of its historical importance in regulating the system of wine production in Burgundy.
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Dijon is located in Bourgogne, France, Europe. The coordinates are 47.3134 latitude, 5.0139 longitude.
Dijon has a population of approximately 159,941 people, making it a city in France.
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racetrack
Fast, sweeping circuit in the Burgundy hills, immortalised by the wheel-banging Villeneuve-Arnoux duel at the 1979 French Grand Prix; still busy with track days and historic racing.
10 km · about 20 min drive
famous road
60-km wine road from Dijon to Santenay through Burgundy's Côte d'Or, stringing together Gevrey-Chambertin, Vougeot, Romanée-Conti and Beaune along UNESCO-listed climat vineyard walls.
29 km · about 35 min drive
museum
A stunning 15th-century charitable hospital with dazzling polychrome Burgundian tile roofs, now a museum and wine auction venue.
35 km · about 40 min drive
April to October
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