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The Eglise Notre-Dame de Dijon was built with rare speed between about 1230 and 1250, giving it an unusually unified Burgundian Gothic style. Its west front is famous for rows of false gargoyles, around fifty one purely decorative figures carved in the 1880s after the medieval originals were removed around 1240, following a legend that a falling stone figure killed a money lender below. High on the tower stands the Jacquemart, a mechanical bell striker that Philip the Bold seized from the Flemish town of Courtrai in 1382 and installed in 1383, later given a wife and two children by affectionate citizens. On the north side, along the Rue de la Chouette, a small carved owl has been rubbed smooth by centuries of visitors touching it with their left hand to make a wish, and it has become the emblem of the city.
Wissenswertes
- 1230 year — Construction of the Gothic church began
- 1383 year — The looted Jacquemart was installed on the tower
- 51 gargoyles — Decorative figures line the west front
📍 Rue de la Chouette 26, 21000, Dijon