Hôtel des Postes de Dijon

What you will see

Start on Place Grangier and look at the corner of the building, cut at an angle, where a large clock is framed by Paul Gasq's sculptures of Day and Night. High on the main facade, two oval medallions hold mosaic cockerels, the emblem of the old French postal service. If the post office is open, step into the public hall with its coffered ceiling. In front stands Le Compteur du temps, a sculpture by Gloria Friedmann unveiled in 2020: a sphere set with clocks showing the time in cities around the world.

History

From the end of the Middle Ages, the site of Place Grangier was taken up by the castle of Dijon, built from 1478 to 1510 after Burgundy passed to the French crown. The castle was pulled down between 1891 and 1897. On part of its site, Louis Perreau, one of the leading Dijon architects of the time, built the new post office from 1907. It was inaugurated on 24 October 1909, with a metal turret that held the telephone exchange and the telegraph.

The post office was enlarged from 1927, with an Art Deco wing completed in 1932 by Charles Danne and Gilles Delavault, the regional architect of the postal service. The street and courtyard facades, the entrance gate, the public hall, the grand staircase and the castle's old well were listed as historic monuments in 2013. After major works, the post office now uses only part of the building. The rest holds offices and a four-star hotel that opened in 2024.