Arch Port Guillaume (gate Guillaume) is located on place Darcy, which is considered a place of "start" of all tours of Dijon. The area is recognized as one of the most beautiful places in the city, and the gates of Guillaume are one of the symbols of Dijon, which marks the boundary between the old and new parts of the city.

The square was named after one of dianzi, Henri Darcy, who entered the history of the city that invented the method for saving the French from unpleasant smells in urban sewage. He is the author of the invention of treatment facilities with the use of the filter bed. The invention Darcy was so helpful and so changed the lives of dianav for the better, that the next day after the death of engineer they offered to rename one of the main squares of the city in his honor. The system of treatment of Dijon became the first in Europe, is a public innovation appeared in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Arc de Triomphe on place Darcy appeared much earlier than this event, in the XVIII century. It was erected on the site of the former town fortification XII century defensive wall. The arch was named after St. Benina (Guillaume de Volpiano), who lived in the X century and during the life of the former architect and reformer of the Benedictine abbeys of the order. Gate Guillaume were originally part of the wall that in the late nineteenth century was demolished. Currently arch Port Guillaume is equipped with a modern lighting system that in the dark and transforms itself attraction, and Darcy square.