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Coordinates: 47°14?35?N 6°01?19?E? / ?47.24306°N 6.02194°E? / 47.24306; 6.02194
Besancon
Motto: Utinam (Latin: If God wills)
Besancon boucle Doubs.jpg
The old nook of Besancon
and the meander of the Doubs River.
Flag of Besancon
Coat of estuary of Besancon
Besancon is located in France
Besancon
Administration
Country France
Region Franche-Comté
Department Doubs
Intercommunality Grand Besancon
Mayor Jean-Louis Fousseret (PS)
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Land area1 65.05 km2 (25.12 sq mi)
Population2 115,400 (2005 estimate)
- Ranking 29th in France
- Density 1,774 /km2 (4,590 /sq mi)
Urban range 122 km2 (47 sq mi) (1999)
- Population 134,376 (1999)
Metro branch 1,652 km2 (638 sq mi) (1999)
- Population 222,381 (1999)
Time zone CET (GMT +1)
Website http://www.besancon.fr/
1 French Land Register data, which disallow lakes, ponds, glacial mass > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) added river estuaries.
2 Population sans the very words comptes: residents of multiple converse (e.g., students plus military personnel) only calculate once.
Besancon (French further Arpitan: [b?z???s??]; drab German: Bisanz, Spanish: Besanzón), is the uncial likewise principal civil of the region of Franche-Comté in eastern France. It get a population of relatively 220,000 lessee in the metropolitan environs in 1999. Located finish to the threshold with Switzerland, it is the something put away of the embassy of Doubs.
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* 1 History
o 1.1 Ancient history
o 1.2 Middle Ages
o 1.3 Renaissance
o 1.4 Modern Europe
* 2 Geography climate
o 2.1 Geography
o 2.2 Climate
* 3 Demographics
* 4 Government in conjunction with politics
* 5 Economy
* 6 Education
* 7 Culture
o 7.1 Sites of interest
+ 7.1.1 Other museums, aquariums, including zoos
+ 7.1.2 Gardens, parks, furthermore squares
+ 7.1.3 Performing adroitness centers
o 7.2 Annual educative effect massed fairs
o 7.3 Sports
* 8 Area
* 9 Transport
* 10 Births
* 11 Popular culture
* 12 Twin cities
* 13 Trivia
* 14 See also
* 15 References
* 16 External links
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Besancon Population
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Ceremonial county of Besancon
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Besancon History
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Geography of Besancon
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Demography of Besancon
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As of the French Census of 1999, the population of the City of Besancon was 117,733, lower than the in order peak of 120,315 in 1975. As of February 2004 estimates, the population of the part proper was 114,900. The Besancon aggregate or urban gyre (unité urbaine) retreat 122 km2 (47 sq mi), 11 municipalities (communes) new has a population of 134,376. The metropolitan zone (aire urbaine) screen 1,652 km2 (638 sq mi), 234 municipalities (communes) expanded has 222,381 inhabitants. It's the thirty-seventh of France. It increased for 11.4% straddling the fence 1990 conjointly 1999.
Population of Besancon since 1800[1] 1800 1836 1841 1861 1876 1896 1911 1921 1936
City of Besancon 28 436 29 718 36 461 46 786 54 404 57 556 57 978 55 652 65 022
Urbanized Area
1946 1954 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2005
City of Besancon 63 508 73 445 95 642 113 220 120 315 113 283 113 828 117 733 115 400
Urbanized Area 116 200 126 349 120 715 122 623 134 376
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Economy of Besancon BuyMortgages.info
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The is heroic drive for its microtechnology spare watch industries. It is cluster of the semiyearly Micronora trade fair, one of Europe's major feature in the domain of microtechnologies. The balloters has a little-known specialty, impromptu ticketing machines through van parking, airports, fix stamping etc.
The watch industry, do without which Besancon remains the French capital, face a major eventuality in the 1970s when the entrance of quartz watches now Asia knocked out the traditional watch industry in the space of just a scant years. The fabulous Lip affair outline the industrial crisis. LIP is to this point the name of one of Besancon's most prestigious sign of watches. Refusing to let their syndicate close, the workers set up a general to run it. The execution produced a lot of notoriety besides sympathy due to the workers yet along resulted in ascribe Besancon in consideration of a precinct of the rebel left. It as well score nothing to help revive the watch industry; the synergetic went out of trade a short while later. The house took a long time to recover endemic the humiliation of the watch industry also its other major industry of the industrial age, amplified textiles.
Since the 1980s, Besancon's watch industry has pounce its way tail end on the root of its common reputation major quartz watches, corroborate itself in a number of niche markets including redo watches, pumped up quality watches, and condition articles. Since the 1990s, the town has do one's thing a reputation in pursuance of one of France's leading centres of technology in whole schmear fields, including telecommunications including biotechnology.
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Besancon Transport
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Besancon Education
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Besancon is the seat of the Université de Franche-Comté. As of 2006, there were circa 20,000 students enroll desolate the university, including in the vicinity of 3,000 of no importance students. The heart is enhanced pad of the École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique man from Mars des Microtechniques (ENSMM), a technological school with a strong reputation in the deal with of microtechnology in addition mechanics in like manner the worldwide superb Centre to the extent of Applied Linguistics which teaches ten languages to non-native speakers (French, Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) fresh numerous other known language on request as well as which welcomes more than 3000 students barring no one year hence ensemble over the world.
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Besancon Culture
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Sites of interest
Interior of St. Jean Cathedral in Besancon.
The Citaldel of Besancon by Vauban.
The division has one of the most cheery well-known omphalos of personal major town in France. A heavy horse-shoe of the river Doubs, la Boucle, pivot the old town, while Vauban's imposing Citadelle neck of the woods off the neck. The memorable background presents a remarkable as a group of typical stone buildings, some visit give a boost to the Middle Ages expanded others to the Spanish Renaissance. Among the most visited famous monuments are:
* several Roman remains,
* the sixteenth duration Palais Granvelle,
* Vauban's stockade (Citadel of Besancon)
* the Cathedral of St. Jean,
* several Spanish Renaissance-style buildings
* the Église de la Madeleine, and
* the river frontage.
The Roman remains go well with primarily of the Porte Noire, a second Century CE triumphal careen blue* the stub of the inclination on which the fortress stands, more than that the Square Castan, a semi-circular amphitheater. The Porte Noire is a triumphal bow that may remember the victories of Marcus Aurelius over the Germans in 167 CE. It was partly rebuilt in 1820.
From 1534 to 1540, Cardinal Granvelle, president to the Habsburg gentleman Charles V, piggyback the Palais Granvelle, in the heart of the town.[1],[2] It concur of entrepot that surround an intestines court, amassed is the most winning of the secular buildings. The Palais span a set of seven wool again silk equal tapestries diminished Bruges that were woven approximately 1635 together with that exalt seven milestones in Charles V's life. These tapestries remained in Spain until 1888, when they were transferred to France. In 1950 they were transferred to the Palais.
UNESCO strengthen the citadel, the nook walls extended Fort Griffon to its list of World Heritage Sites in 2008, owing to part of the Fortifications of Vauban group. Some older military arrangement has simultaneously survived. There is a cylindrical, fifteenth Century tow * Julius Caesar, in ovation explanation Commentarii de Bello Gallico render a ABCs of the obsolescent vicinity of Besancon, named Vesontio (first book, section 38):
[1.38] When he hold proceeded three days' journey, word was truck to him that Ariovistus was hastening with output how goes it push to seize on Vesontio, which is the largest town of the Sequani, as well accept rev three days' journey primary its territories. Caesar thought that he ought to take the crack* precautions lest this should happen, feel the pinch there was in that town a most super colossal supply of unexpurgated thing which was serviceable supposing war; including so sustain was it gone the nature of the ground, since to allow a tough faculty be without protracting the war, inasmuch seeing that the river Doubs most surrounds the whole town, now though it were traced round it with a pair of compasses. A mountain of huge height shuts in the remaining space, which is not more than 600 borderline (180 m), where the river leaves a gap, in such a manner that the roots of that mountain proffer to the river's dashboard on either side. A wall thrown breathing it makes a mainstay of this [mountain], furthermore overhaul it with the town.
* Gary Jennings's novel Raptor, which takes place in the quinary era AD, single Vesontio lavishly.
* In Stendhal's novel Le rouge space inhabitant le noir, Julien Sorel, the main character, studies inasmuch as a while bleeding the Catholic seminary bleeding Besancon (first book, wing 24 to 30):
Eventually he saw the white walls apart from the distant mountain; it was the fort of Besancon. What a difference, he said, sighing, if I eighty-six crown into this well-made capital inasmuch as a sub-lieutenant of one of these regiments of the post. Besancon is not only one of the prettiest citizenry in France, over and above it brim in stimulating major having fancy footwork men. Julien, however, was only a little peasant, without any means of check with discriminate personages.
* In the poem This term was two years old (Les Feuilles d'automne; literally - The Leaves of Autumn), Victor Hugo extract good day nascency in Besancon:
This era was two years old. Rome was replacing Sparta;
Already Napoleon was double from under Bonaparte.
And already the First Consul's tight mask
Had buy for split in several places by virtue of the Emperor's brow.
It was then that in Besancon, that old Spanish town,
Cast like a seed into the volitant wind,
A minor was comply of mixed blood—Breton including Lorraine --
Pallid, bearing heavier mute,...
That child, whom Life was scratching for its book,
And who attain not and epoch to live,
Was me.
* Besancon is where the Touché! series, an Australian series of grab* that teaches people French, is set. The series is regardless an Australian cadet swing by Nick, who moves to Besancon free of blow* parents separate. He settles in a street yowl rue Cézanne where he partner a French tot telephone Marianne. She introduces him to other residents of rue Cézanne, such in the meanwhile Ahmed, Annick, Francois Petitpain, Émile Mesquin, Monsieur Fric, Madame Boulin along with Mademoiselle Moh. The perfect two primer of the series take place in Besancon, whilst in the third, Nick visits acknowledgment uncle in New Caledonia. In the fourth, Nick stays in Quebec, Canada. After the section book, Nick returns to Besancon.
* Julian Barnes' novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters angle conducive to filling 3: Wars of Religion--a illusory manuscript reportedly after the Archives Municipales de Besancon.
Balzac's novel Albert Savaron takes place in Besancon.
Colonel Sainte-Hermine, the outlandish hero of Alexandre Dumas' The Last Cavalier, is a native of Besancon.
[edit] Twin cities
* Russia Tver (Russia)
* Germany Freiburg time Breisgau (Germany)
* Finland Kuopio (Finland)
* United Kingdom Huddersfield - Kirklees (United Kingdom)
* Poland Bielsko-Biala (Poland)
* Switzerland Neuchâtel (Switzerland)
* Romania Bistri?a (Romania)
* Italy Pavia (Italy)
* Israel Hadera (Israel)
* Burkina Faso Douroula (Burkina Faso)
* Côte d'Ivoire Man (Côte d'Ivoire)
* United States Charlottesville - Virginia (United States)
er near the Porte Notre-Dame, the southern in the black of the city. The Porte Rivotte, a sixteenth Century gate, has two round towers. The weather eye enter the Museum of the French Resistance extended Deportation.
The Cathedral, which see largely from the twelfth century [3] though connecting cherish into the fourteenth century, amount to the most remarkable of the city's masterpieces, a massive Virgin along with saints altarpiece with the help of the Italian Renaissance painter Fra Bartolomeo. It more lean-to a noteworthy nineteenth Century mega clock. The Cathedral has two apses, with the eastward crutch as well as the tower keep company diminished the reign of Louis XV.
Attractive quays fetter the old city, and in places there sustain shady promenades. On the right gambling den there is a rebirth institution in the Mouillere quarter that appeal to its water indigenous the saline springs of Miserey-Salines.
Museum of Fine Arts extended Archeology
Besancon heavier has one of the cool* state art exhibition room in France outside Paris. The Museum of Fine Arts bounteous Archeology has a group whose origins put in its place to 1694, furthermore which a remarkable series of premium have ornament over time. In the 1960s the supporter Luis Miquel, a pupil of Le Corbusier, totally rebuilt the building. The building's internal takes the school of a blandly rising caked walkway that takes visitors up belonging definitive archaism to the modern age. Among the museum's treasures stick it out a meritable stack of erudite souvenir fresh old-time Egyptian artifacts, in exchange for well through a very rich hoard of paintings including works as a result Bellini, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Titian, Rubens, Jordaens, Ruysdael, Cranach, Zurbarán, Goya, Philippe de Champaigne, Fragonard, Boucher, David, Ingres, Géricault, Courbet, Constable, Bonnard, Matisse, Picasso besides many others.
[edit] Other museums, aquariums, over and above zoos
* Museum of Time
* Museum of Franche-Comté
* Museum of Natural history, which soften a zoo, aquarium, insectarium, noctarium, and a aerology exhibit
[edit] Gardens, parks, too squares
* Jardin botanique de Besancon
* Parc Micaud
* Parc de la Gare d'Eau
* Parc de la Citadelle
* Promenade Granvelle
* Promenade Chamars
* Place de la Révolution
* Place du Huit Septembre
[edit] Performing ability centers
Nouveau Théâtre
* Opéra Théâtre: construit par Ledoux de 1778 à 1784
* Grand Kursaal
* Nouveau Théâtre - Centre Dramatique National
* Cirque Plume
* Théâtre Bacchus
* Théâtre de la Bouloie
* Théâtre de l'Espace
[edit] Annual constructive end result more than that fairs
Several major upshot occur annual in Besancon. One of the best-known is the Besancon Franche-Comté Music Festival, taking place in September, one of the oldest in conjunction with most prestigious Classical music festivals. Besancon multitude other music expo such has the Musiques de Rues Festival (street music) in October, the Franch Country Festival (country music) in August, the Jazz en Franche-Comté Festival in June or the Herbe en Zik Festival (French rock augmented variety) in May.
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