Ornans - Cache urbaine

Enigma difficulty :
Terrain difficulty :
Length : 2h

Start at Ornans Tourist Bureau:
N 47°06.390’ – E 006°08.807’

For each stage you must note down a clue word. Every dash stands for a letter. In the end, you will replace every letter by a matching number to find the final solution.
Write down the answers without spaces or apostrophe, and in FRENCH!
Enjoy your discovery of Ornans!


Stage 1 :
Find a work of Gustave Courbet located at the following coordinates:
N 47°06.412° – E 006°08.713°
What does this work represent?

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Stage 2 :
Not far from there go to: N 47°06.377’ – E 006°08.761’.

You will read a year reminding that the swelling of the river rose up to 3 meters!
What is the maximum height that can be measured with the device fixed on the wall?

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8  9 10 11 12 13

Stage 3 :

You now have to find an overhanging turret decorated with a grotesque statue called “the pisser”.
To find its coordinates, replace the letters by numbers given that:
AB = two last figures of the year of the 3 meters swelling
C = number found in stage 2

N 47°06.BC0’
E 006°08.7A0’

Now write down the century during which this former mansion was built:

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14 15

Stage 4:
Seek the grenadier (Napoleonic soldier) who guards a gate made of  carved wood:
 (N 47°06.303’ – E 006°08.681’)

Note down the name of the street where it stands.

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16 17 18 19 20 21

Stage 5:

Next stage takes place around a fountain, but which one?
Its coordinates:
N 47°06.2YY– E 006°08.X79
X = number of letters of the last clue word you found
Y = X divided in two

In order to justly celebrate Saint Vernier, what did his brotherhood filled the fountain with?
You can find the clue on the statue…

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22 23 24

Stage 6:

Now look for a religious writing carved above a door not in the vicinity of St Laurent’s church.
 (N 47°06.301’– E 006°08.705’)

Copy out the writing word for word.

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25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36

Stage 7:
Now you have to find a cross on a bridge.
It will be much easier with the following coordinates:

N   47°0?.11?’
E 006°09.271’

Reverse the number below the first question mark. Then replace the two question marks with the result.

This cross has something special. What is it?

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37 38 39 40 41 42

Between this cross and the one handed clock there is a statue with four little characters. You have to find out what they represent to end the course. And as tall oaks out of little acorns grow, you will also have to find four great characters that have left their mark in Ornans, each in his domain. You stand in front of one of them, now you will have to find the three others.



Stage 8:
Let’s go on up to the start of Ornans via ferrata.
(N 47°06.296’ – E 006°09.130’)
What is the name of the cliff?

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43 44 45 46

Stage 9:

Come down towards the city centre and look for a very precious stone.
Before the French conquest of the region, anyone who had commited an involuntary homicide could touch the stone and thus find shelter in Ornans.
To learn (and note down) the name of this stone, go to:
N 47°06.331’ – E 006°08.892’

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47 48 49 50 51 52

Stage 10:

On your way back to the tourist bureau, make sure that you meet a sun dial
(N 47°06.365’ – E 006°08.842’)

The line below the dial looks a bit like a digit.
Write it down.
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53 54 55 56

Now you have all the cards in hands to find the final answer.

Write down the letters of the ten clue words above the corresponding numbers, in order to find out the name of the little characters you have met at stage 7.

Then find the link with the four great characters. If you have any difficulty to fulfil this subsidiary enigma, ask for help at the tourist office.


Little characters                    Great characters (optional)

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