Sobre este lugar
The Place des Terreaux is one of the great gathering places of Lyon, a broad rectangle at the foot of the Croix-Rousse hill, bordered by the long Baroque facade of the Hotel de Ville and by the Musee des Beaux-Arts in the former Palais Saint-Pierre. Its name comes from the French word for earth, recalling the marshy ground and filled in moat that once lay here, and for centuries it was also a site of public execution. At its heart stands the Fontaine Bartholdi, a dramatic sculpture of four horses rearing from the water to pull a chariot driven by an allegory of a great river. Designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, creator of the Statue of Liberty, it was originally intended for Bordeaux before being sold to Lyon and installed in 1892. In 1994 the artist Daniel Buren and architect Christian Drevet redesigned the square with sixty nine small fountains set flush into the granite paving.
Datos clave
- 1892 year — Bartholdi's monumental fountain was installed on the square
- 1994 year — Daniel Buren and Christian Drevet redesigned the square with ground level fountains
- 69 fountains — Small water jets are set flush into the granite paving across the square
📍 Place des Terreaux, 69001, Lyon