Ducal palace at 15th July 2020

At Place de la Libération you’re greeted by the home of the Dukes of Burgundy in the 14th and 15th centuries, now the town hall.

If it doesn’t look like it’s from this time that’s because the building has been in use by the city ever since, and was extended in the 17th century by Jules Hardouin-Mansart, who was responsible for the Grand Trianon at Versailles.

He also designed Place de la Liberation, and if you look between the two classical porticoes you can see the renaissance Tower of Philip the Good poking up between.

This is the oldest part of the building visible from the square, and dates to the 1450s.

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