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Besançon is the perfect city for your holidays. This town is rich in sights and things to do with your beloved one, with your friends, or with your family. For a thorough fruition of your holiday and for fully savoring this touristic site, we suggest hiring a car in Besançon with our GoCarHire.co.uk service. You will notice the advantages of having your own car: you can move at will without constraining time schedules and fixed routes to follow. You can go wherever you want, whenever you please. On our website you will save even more money than you think. On GoCarHire.co.uk you will find the best offers in terms of price and quality. Now, to Besançon. The first thing to mention is the number of museum collections that no doubt will thoroughly satisfy you. Visit the Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology. In its curious setting – a former hotel room – this museum leads you to the discovery of a wonderful interweaving of ancient and modern art, with artworks ranging from prehistory to nowadays. This museum displays a wide variety of Western artists including masters like Matisse, Bonnard, Géricault, Bronzino, Titian, Tintoretto, and Bellini. Instead, for a discussion of with Renaissance architecture, take a look at the Time museum in Palais Granvelle.

Must-see

• With its fauna and flora collections, the Besançon Museum gets you in touch with Mother Nature.

• The second- and third-century Castan square.

• The citadel, rich in museums.

The museums in the Besançon Citadel own unique collections will make many who travel herehappy. The Museum of Besançon, for instance, was founded in 1943 and adjoined to the Citadel sixteen years later. Inside you will appreciate the spectacular mélange of wildlife areas and collections focused on ethnographic, zoological, botanical, and geological facets. Furtherly, you will see numberless rare species. In 1960, the Citadel has also had the privilege of hosting the Comtois museum, entirely devoted to Franche-Comté landscapes and history. The Museum of Resistance and Deportation organises its expositions in twenty rooms following some main themes. Through the thematic paths named Liberation, Deportation and genocide of the Jews, Resistance and repression, and Vichy occupation and Nazism, you will explore this fascinating hybrid that also includes an art museum and a huge archive for precious documents. The Museum of Comtois houses, instead, takes care to represent the alluring seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century atmosphere on over fifteen hectares filled with reproduction of past buildings. After you have admired the beauty of these landscapes, enjoy tours of the gardens, the kitchen, and the surrounding areas. It is perhaps useless to remind that a taste of Besançon local delicacies is in order. Travellers keen on natural sights will certainly find them in Besançon, given the almost 2500 hectares of green areas, of which some two-thousand hectares are thick forests and the rest is composed by parks (with relaxing promenades like Chamars walk and Micaud Granvelle promenade.)