Car Hire in Besancon Rail Station - Mini guide to Besancon Rail Station

Besancon Rail Station

Known as the country’s greenest city, Besancon is the capital of the Franche-Comté region in northeastern France near the border with Switzerland. Besancon boasts one of the most magnificent historic centres of any major French town and presents an extraordinary assembly of classic stone buildings, with some of them dating from the Middle Ages.

Besancon Rail Station, called Besancon Viotte, is close to the city centre and is at the intersection of two main trains lines: the north-south route connecting northern France with Switzerland, and the northeast-southwest route linking Northern Europe and Germany with Lyon and southwest Europe. A key staging point on the Strasbourg-Lyon (Germany-Spain) route, Besancon has direct high-speed TGV connections with Paris, including Charles de Gaulle International Airport, and with Lille.

Besancon Rail Station can be reached from Paris’ Gare de Lyon Station seven times per day (2 hours, 30 minutes by TGV high-speed train), from Lyon seven times per day (2 hours, 15 minutes), from Basel Airport also seven times per day (2 hours, 30 minutes), and from Strasbourg every three hours.

A great number of tourists are attracted to Besancon’s numerous historic monuments, museums, art galleries, parks and performing art centres each year. There are car rental facilities in Besancon but they can be pricey if paid for locally. We recommend you book your hire car before leaving home to make your vacation as pleasant and efficient as possible and to save time and expense on arrival at Besancon.

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