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• Opened on: 15 December 2012
• Operating times: 7AM to 9PM every day
• Annual number of passengers: 1 million
• Difference in height covered by lift: 58m
• Return fare: 1€
• Lift takes: 23 seconds
• Capacity: 21 people

The Citadel of Besançon is built on top of a rock closing the neck of the oxbow formed by the River Doubs. This steep-sided plateau covers an area11.2 hectaresand is located approximately120 metresabove the level of the river and town centre, and371 metresabove sea level. 

More than 230 000...

Innovations of Vauban, the first bastioned towers flanking a protective city wall were constructed in Besançon from 1687. The bastioned tower of Chamars was constructed on the rock, on the river bed, between 1687 and 1691. Following a restoration during the year 2008, it was opened to visitors for...