The Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in Dijon tells eight centuries of history through its façade alone.

Look left to right, and you trace the outline of a 3rd-century Roman wall; the tower rising above belonged to Philip the Good, one of four Valois dukes whose patronage of fine art and even finer wine made Burgundy the envy of medieval Europe. When the last duke died in 1477, Louis XIV claimed the palace and sent his architect to give it a fashionable 17th-century facelift.

The semicircular Place de la Libération once framed a bronze equestrian statue of the Sun King so enormous it took 27 years to reach Dijon, only to be melted into cannons during the Revolution.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace how each dynasty left its mark on the building, from the Capetian dukes to the Valois patrons who made Dijon a capital of art and gastronomy.