Église Notre-Dame de Dijon

This thirteenth-century Gothic church is renowned for its unusual facade lined with rows of decorative gargoyles and a false gallery of slender columns. On one exterior corner a small carved owl has become a good-luck talisman that visitors touch as they pass, worn smooth over the centuries. A mechanical clock with striking figures, brought back from a Flemish campaign, tops one of its towers. Inside, a venerated dark-wood statue of the Virgin and vivid stained glass draw pilgrims to this landmark of the Burgundian capital.