Besançon Cathedral

About

Saint John's Cathedral in Besançon, also known as Saint John's Cathedral in Besançon, is a French-speaking church, basilica and Carolingian cathedral in Besançon, built in the third century and rebuilt several times, especially in the ninth and eleventh centuries; It includes Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque parts. The building is one of the few in France to understand two opposite choirs; It contains about thirty paintings classified with historical monuments, an astronomical clock considered a masterpiece of the genre, as well as the Rose of Saint John, a circular altar dating from the 11th century and entirely made in white marble. His very legitimacy as a diocesan seat was repeatedly called into question, notably by the near chapter of Saint Stephen, but the Pope of France Calixte II restored this right to this church, considered the "mother house".

Many personalities were buried in the building, including Counts of Burgundy, but also Archbishops of the city. The cathedral has been classified as historical monuments since 1875.