Besançon is a city in the east of France, the capital of the department of Duux. On the banks of the Dou, a tributary of the Saône. It was once a strategic location.
It is the birthplace of the poet and writer Victor Hugo, where Fourier, the early French communist theorist, founded the workers' organization.
Besançon has a university founded in 1485 and a library built in the 17th century, which houses a valuable collection of manuscripts and books with elaborate bindings from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Besançon is an industrial center, a cheese and timber market, with the Ministry of Watches, Metallurgy, Textiles, etc. Tourism is well developed. There are monuments such as inns, museums and monumental buildings from the 16th and 18th centuries.
Built in 1534 in a marble-paved circular square, the Grandville Palace houses treasures from the history of the Franche-Comté people.
The Porte de Rivotte, Besançon's old gate, was built in the 16th century with Louis XIV firearms in front of it, flanked by a round tower.
Besançon has the 12th-century Saint-Jean church, a mixture of Romanesque and Gothic architecture, with famous frescoes, carvings, etc.
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