La Gare et son Avenue

Opportunely located on the railway line linking Dijon  Besançon (and beyondà à Switzerland) Genlis bénéficia, north of the city center, where passed in antiquity a Roman road, a station dès the mid-nineteenth century. Born then in the vicinity several establishments suitable to host and restore travelers, numerous during all the decades when the railway was the means of transport privileged, both for individuals and for goods.

The railway was affected by the great flood of 1910.

The railway was affected

Avenue de la Gare
From there, to reach the center of the city, was opened, irrigating a residential area of the 1930s, a beautiful rectilinear avenue known as Avenue de la Gare.towards the north, passing at the foot of the monument to the dead of the 1870 battle (erected in 1871 and removed in 1953), it joined the road to Labergement just after crossing the level crossing that was removed when the large Pasteur Street bridge was put into service in 1967.towards the south, it ends in the center of town, where the Place du Commerce (Forum) used to be.