Place Bellecour

With a size six hectares, the « Place Bellecour » is the biggest square of Lyon, the fourth biggest of France, it is also the biggest pedestrian square of Europe.

In the center of, there is a bronze statue of Louis XIV, realized by dating of Francois-Frédéric Lemot in 1825. More low, she is accompanied, in its feet, by two allegorical statues of the Saône and the Rhône created by the brothers Nicolas and Guillaume Costou in 1720.

Too little known, the statues of Petit Prince and Aantoine de Saint-Exupéry is situated in the extremity west of the Place Bellecour.

It is only with the works led under the Consulate of Bonaparte in 1800 that this place opens to miscellaneous activities: a flower market, A guardroom, two detached houses which are today The Rectangle (showroom) and the tourist information office. It is from there that a certain energy builds up itself.

Today it is the center of Lyon, the place of all the gatherings!