ÉGLISE SAINT-MICHEL
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Dijon's most beautiful church, with a nave and a flamboyant Gothic style, housing numerous treasures and paintings.
Built on a 6th century funerary chapel, dedicated to the archangel who weighs souls on Judgment Day, this spectacular church is without a doubt the most beautiful in Dijon! Its composite character, mixing Gothic, Renaissance and classical styles, can be explained by the duration of the construction work, which spanned from 1500 to 1667. This mixture of styles is perfectly illustrated by the three portals of the church, built at different times. As such, the church of Saint-Michel de Dijon is unique in France. The nave is in a flamboyant gothic style, while on the main façade, Renaissance and classicism cohabit. On the portal are mixed religious and pagan themes, which did not prevent the building from suffering from the revolutionary troubles and a savage vandalism which nevertheless spared the portals, but not the glass roof, which was said to be magnificent. In the 19th century, furniture, paintings and many other treasures were brought from other churches in Dijon and from former convents. A small booklet at the entrance describes the building in detail. Saint-Michel was the parish of Elisabeth de La Trinité, canonized in 2016. Her relics are deposited in the chapel of the church. On the right, as you leave, Place Saint-Michel is a shaded haven of coolness in summer, with its fountain and the monument erected in memory of the hydraulician Henry Bazin. It is framed by beautiful residences of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries: the hotel of Laloge, at number 17 and the hotel Fleutelot or Clery at number 14.
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