New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 15

DIJON IS CITY OF UNUSUAL BEAUTY Also Famous for Mustard an Gingerbread D. C, Dec. 16— recently called one of the world’'s twenty most beautiful cities by planning experts, is the capital of the old French province of Bur- kundy and shipping point of th famous Burgundy wines. Since the abolition of the ancient names and boundarics of French provinces, the Washington, Dijon, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1927. ’the French revolution, Few enough are reminders of n medieval past in present-day Dijon, a quaint cathedral in true Burgun- dian Gothic style, with several in- teresting churches, the town hall, and s ent louses are all that ant boulevards |occupy the former site of the old | ramparts and long straight etr have been driven throug tself. ! Dukes, Mustard and Much of a later date at hand for lovers of 1 are still open ‘places’ lined wit aintly gabled houses. Irom tie branch cobbled and crooked | whose tall houses end in p roo and chimney Gingerbread how region about Dijon is known as the Cote d'Or or Golden Side. As if to carry out the color gcheme two of 'the city’'s most famous exports are mustard and gingerbread. On the 0ld Roman Path Dijon early was the pivotal city between the Seine and Rhone ri systems, and hence a link bet Parls and the Mediterranean. Now it is one of the main stations on the Paris-Lyon- ille Railway. In splte of its tr prominence, poli- tical significance did not settle upon Dijon until the cleventh century when it became the capital of the Dukes of Burgundy. These fearless princes by m: . conquest, pur- chase, and persuasion extended their dominfons from Planders to the Rhone. Lventually, however, their Nne ran out and what bid fair to be- come & middle kingdom between France and Germany, broke up once more into its component parts. Bur- came a part of France, and 1 child of the French king. however, clings only to ds. Officially Golden Side is name for this rich reglon at the head of the Rhone-Saone Valle along which ran the ancient trade highway from the south of France to northern Euprope. Where this route turned westward toward the headwaters eof the Seins on ifs w: to Paris, portant transshipping and trading center. Since much of France's freight is still carried by river and canal, the city has lost none of her y importance gained through le location. connects the two great river basins and hence land portage is no Jonger an appropriate ¥5 of her political promi- a major European capital fell with the Burgundian Dukes ana now remain solely a grand memory in the ann of a charming and prosperous French provineial town. The palace of the Dukes is the town hall, which houses, in addition, ono of the most interesting museums . the provinces. A magnificent monas- tery, decorated by artists from Flanders, which was to have held ducal tornbs is now the eite of lunatie asylum. Cynics say that this | structure still preserves the atmos- phere of wild days of Burgundy when money flowed fn Dijon, ani Tlood almost as freely. 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