Dijon Ville

Introduction

The station building to the train is divided into two different sections:

(1) The iconic feature of Dijon Station is its main entrance to the rotunda, sourced from a building that mimics the London Underground station.

The station has a ticket office, a “SNCF boutique”, a traffic information office (you can get a map of Dijon from here) and an entrance to the car rental office. It is also one of the station access points that are located where most trains leave.

In Dijon, most stations are replaced by letters instead of numbers.

(2) If you enter the station through its main entrance, the second part leading to the station, its main departure hall, is located on the other side of the stairs/elevator.

The location of this departure hall is:

(i) Waiting room (ii) Information Desk (iii) Cafe (iv) Luggage storage at the main entrance at the other end of the departure hall. (v) Some hidden elevators are alternative passages to the train platform, which are located on the side of the entrance to the waiting room.

Going to the city center

Dijon station is located on the western edge of the city centre, so the city centre is about a 15-minute walk from the station. Since the city centre is a pedestrian street, buses and trams from the front yard of the station do not cross the city centre, so hiking may be the best or only viable option.

Once you are in the front yard of the station, the tramway leads directly to Avenue MaréchalFoch, which is a pedestrian street. In 5 to 10 minutes you will walk to Place Darcy, which is located at the western end of Rue dela Liberté, the main street of Dijon. The tram stops in Darcy, but it is still a 5-10 minute walk from Dijon.

To the east of Rue delaLiberté is Place dela Libération, which is also home to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. This area of the eastern end of Rue dela Liberté is served by the free "City" shuttle, which runs every 10 minutes during the day from Monday to Saturday.

However, it stops at 'Gare' and not in the front yard of Dijon Station, you have to walk 3-5 minutes from Boulevardde Sévignés to get to the station.

Barcelona Sants

Barcelona Sants is Barcelona's main railway station and is owned by the Spanish railway infrastructure agency Adif. It has become the most important transportation hub of the Catalan capital – as the centre of the Rodales de Catalunya, including the railway services and regional services of the suburbs of Barcelona, as well as the main intercity stations of domestic and international destinations. The station is named after Sants, near Barcelona.

The station offers long-distance train services and Madrid is two and a half hours from the high-speed rail line. The high-speed network extended eastward to France to connect to the TGV network and completed direct TGV service in 2013. High speed service uses stations 1 to 6. The station also provides local and commuter train services to nearby areas.

The station is located in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, just a few steps from the west of the city centre and easily accessible by metro or bus from anywhere in the city. Located at the end of Avinguda Roma between the two squares, it has two entrances.

Dijon (UK: , US: , French: [diʒɔ̃] ) is a city in eastern France, capital of the Côte-d'Or département in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region.The earliest archaeological finds within the city limits of Dijon date to the Neolithic period. Dijon later became a Roman settlement named Divio, located on the road from Lyon to Paris. The province was home to the Dukes of Burgundy from the early 11th until the late 15th centuries and Dijon was a place of tremendous wealth and power, one of the great European centres of art, learning and science. Population (2008): 151,576 within the city limits; 250,516 (2007) for the greater Dijon area. The city has retained varied architectural styles from many of the main periods of the past millennium, including Capetian, Gothic and Renaissance. Many still-inhabited town houses in the city's central district date from the 18th century and earlier. Dijon architecture is distinguished by, among other things, toits bourguignons (Burgundian polychrome roofs) made of tiles glazed in terracotta, green, yellow and black and arranged in geometric patterns. Dijon holds an International and Gastronomic Fair every year in autumn. With over 500 exhibitors and 200,000 visitors every year, it is one of the ten most important fairs in France. Dijon is also home, every three years, to the international flower show Florissimo. Dijon is famous for Dijon mustard which originated in 1856, when Jean Naigeon of Dijon substituted verjuice, the acidic "green" juice of not-quite-ripe grapes, for vinegar in the traditional mustard recipe. The historical centre of the city has been registered since July 4, 2015 as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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