This page presents the list and the description of the ways of Besancon classified by category and district.

Streets

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Street Antide January:

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• toponymy: Antide January was a clock and watch maker.
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Street of Arenas

• old names: street of the Confederation
• description: it was entirely destroyed by a fire in 1546
• toponymy: it bears this name because it is the street which led to the Roman arenas.
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Grapille de Battant

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• description: raidillon connecting the Tower of the Ball to the public garden Mussel bed.
• toponymy: to see Leaf
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Street Beating

• old names: street of the Spades
• description: principal artery of the district Beating
• toponymy: to see Leaf
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Lane Billiards

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Street Champrond

• old names: vicus of Chanron
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• toponymy: according to Auguste Castan, his name is derived from Chanron, name of a former family which had buildings in the district.
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Street of the School

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Street of the Equality

• old names: street of Dead the
• description: this way led to the catacombs of the church of the Madeleine.
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Which occurred Edgar Faure

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Covered way of Strong Griffon

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Street of the Brothers Draper

• old names: street of Chartres, street of the Revolution
• toponymy: Pierre and Jean Mercier were two young high-school pupils assassinated by the Nazis in 1944 for their activities in Resistance.
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Street of Glacis

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Street of Large Charmont

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Street Gratteris

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Street Leon Deubel

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Street of the Madeleine

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Street Marulaz

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Street of Mainz

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Lane of the Sheep

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Street of the Small Leaf

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Street of Small Charmont

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Street of the Port Cîteaux

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• toponymy: this lane led directly to the river of Doubs before the quays are not high. One called ports these places or the streets " plongeaient" in Doubs. This one had taken the name of Cîteaux because of presence of an old people's home pertaining to the abbey of Cîteaux.
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Street Richebourg

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Dead end Saint-Canat

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Street of Séchal

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Quay of Strasbourg

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Street Thiémanté

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Veil-Picardy Quay

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Street of Vignier

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District of the Loop

Street Charles Nodier

• old names: new street, street of Tiny, street Voltaire
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• toponymy: it bears the name of the writer Charles Nodier
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Which occurred of the Water Station

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Main street :

• old names: street of the Borough, street Saint-Jean-Baptist, street Midsummer's Day, street of the Meeting, street of the Defenders of the Fatherland
• description: old cardo of the ancient city of Vesontio, it is one of the oldest ways of the city. It is the principal commercial artery of the downtown area.
• toponymy: its name is derived from its name of the Gallo-Roman time, magnus vicius , in Latin.
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Street of the Barns :

• old names: street of Legality, street of Capitole
• description: parallel with Main street, it is different the large commercial artery of the historical center.
• toponymy: its name goes up with 1235 and recalls that at the time its aspect was very rural.
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Which occurred the Eight May 1945

• old names: avenue Boat
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• toponymy: it celebrates the victory of Allied at the time of the Second world war.
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Street of Porteau

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District of the Tilleroyes

Street Jeanne-Antide-Thouret (often shortened by " Street Thouret")

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• toponymy: this street was named thus to pay a homage to the Sister Jeanne-Antide Thouret. This street counts between 120 and 200 inhabitants.
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Bridges

Bridge Beating

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• description: old Roman bridge with three stone arches which were a long time the only one to connect the Loop, it was destroyed during the Second world war. It was rebuilt out of concrete in 1953 with only one arch to limit the risks of floods.
• toponymy: its name is that of the district which it connects to the Loop (see Battant).

Bridge of Bregille

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• description: built out of wood in 1689 then on stone piles of 1834 with 1837.
• toponymy: called thus because it leads to the old village and today district of Bregille.

Bridge Boat

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• description: built starting from 1877
• toponymy: of campus Niger (black field) or of ganneau (the ganneaux meadows are meadows with renewal )

Bridge of Hanging-post

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Bridge Charles-of-Gaulle

• old names: bridge of Grette
• description: opened in 1968
• toponymy: it bears the name of the de Gaulle general.

Bridge Denfert-Rochereau

• old names: footbridge Denfert-Rochereau
• description: initially a footbridge built in 1941, it was rebuilt in 1989.
• toponymy: it bears the name of the colonel Pierre Philippe Denfert-Rochereau.

Footbridge of Malate

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• description: opening envisaged in 2009. It will be accessible to the pedestrians, cyclists and rollers.
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Footbridge of Mazagran

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• description: opened in 1960
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Passerelle of the Meadows of Be worth

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• description: old bridge of railroad today open to the pedestrians and cyclists, it connects the Rivotte suburb to the district of the Meadows of Are worth.
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Bridge of the Republic

• old names: bridge in wire (1838-1883), bridge Saint-Pierre (1883-1904).
• description: opened in 1838, it was rebuilt out of stone in 1883, was destroyed during the Second world war and was rebuilt in 1947. It makes it possible to connect the Loop to the district of the Chaprais. It is the work of engineer Parandier.
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Bridge of Velotte

• old names: street of the Frontier runner
• description: opened in 1887
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Places

District Leaf

Place Bacchus

Place Beating

Place Griffon

Place Jouffroy d' Abbans

Place Marulaz

Place of the Port of the Fountain

District of the Loop

Public garden Castan

Esplanade of the Human rights

Place of September Eight

Place of the Jacobins

Place Jean Horn

Place Jean Gigoux

Place of Lattre de Tassigny

Place Pasteur

Place of the Levelled down Ramparts

Place of the Revolution

Public garden Saint-Love

Place Saint-Jacob

Place of the Theater

Place Victor Hugo

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