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The Escaliers du Marché, or Market Stairs, are a direct and dramatic link between the bustling Place de la Palud below and the Gothic cathedral crowning the Cité above. A stairway has climbed this slope since at least the thirteenth century, taking its name from the market that once filled the little square beside it. The covered wooden staircase seen today was built between 1717 and 1719, its steps made wide enough for two people laden with baskets to pass one another as they hurried between the town's marketplaces, while the sheltering roof kept merchants and their goods dry through Lausanne's wet winters. Flanked on its eastern side by houses with facades reaching back to the sixteenth century, the staircase remains a living passage through the heart of the medieval upper town.
Fatti principali
- 1717 year — The covered wooden staircase was rebuilt in its present form, completed in 1719
- 13 century — A stairway on this slope was first recorded here, giving the route centuries of history
- 1911 year — The upper section was cut through by the new Rue Pierre-Viret and the Pont Bessières bridge
📍 Escaliers du Marché 2, 1003, Lausanne