Place de la Trinité

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The Place de la Trinite, and the montee du Gourguillon on the right Place de la Trinite.JPG
The Place de la Trinité, and the montée du Gourguillon on the right

The Place de la Trinité is a square located in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon. The square, fully paved and surrounded by old buildings like the sun house (18th century), is more a crossing of small streets than a real square. It is on the hillside of Fourvière and is the low extremity of the hill of Gourguillon. The square is in the center of the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

5th arrondissement of Lyon French municipal arrondissement in Rhône-Alpes, France

The 5th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

Fourvière district of Lyon, France

Fourvière is a district of Lyon, France, a hill immediately west of the old part of the town, rising from the river Saône.

World Heritage Site place listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or natural significance

A World Heritage Site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties. The sites are judged important to the collective interests of humanity.

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History

The street was first named "Le treyve du Gourguillon". [1]

In 1658, archbishop Camille de Neuville did come to Lyon the Regular Canons of St. Augustine. They were installed on the square in 1664 in a house successively owned by the Bellièvres, the De Langes and the De Sèves. [1] [2] As they belonged to the Order of the Holy Trinity, the place was renamed Place de la Trinité. [3] On 10 January 1794, it was renamed Place du Triangle before reverting to its former name after the French Revolution. [4]

French Revolution social and political revolution in France and its colonies occurring from 1789 to 1798

The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies beginning in 1789. The Revolution overthrew the monarchy, established a republic, catalyzed violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon who brought many of its principles to areas he conquered in Western Europe and beyond. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the Revolution profoundly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and liberal democracies. Through the Revolutionary Wars, it unleashed a wave of global conflicts that extended from the Caribbean to the Middle East. Historians widely regard the Revolution as one of the most important events in human history.

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The Guignol's house

On the square, at the corner with the montée du Gourguillon, there is the sun house, which was built in 1723 and was named so because a golden sun on a blue background is painted between the first and the second floor. The building currently houses on the ground floor a coffeehouse (also named bouchon) of the same name. The waters rushing down the montée du Gourguillon were once collected in the Fontaine des Trois Cornets (fountain of the Three Cones). [2]

Coffeehouse Establishment serving coffee

A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee, related coffee drinks, and – depending on country – other drinks including alcoholic. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks such as iced coffee and iced tea; in continental Europe, cafés serve alcoholic drinks. A coffeehouse may also serve some type of food, such as light snacks, sandwiches, muffins or other pastries. Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to large multinational corporations.

Bouchon refers to cooking traditions and practices centering on the area around the French city of Lyon

A bouchon is a type of restaurant found in Lyon, France, that serves traditional Lyonnaise cuisine, such as sausages, "salade lyonnaise" duck pâté or roast pork. The speciality is "Quenelles de Brochet"(Pike Quenelles) with Nantua Sauce. Compared to other forms of French cooking such as nouvelle cuisine, the dishes are quite fatty and heavily oriented around meat. There are approximately twenty officially certified traditional bouchons, but a larger number of establishments describe themselves using the term.

Montée du Gourguillon street in Lyon, France

The Montée du Gourguillon is a very old street of the hill of Fourvière in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon, between the Saint-Jean and Saint-Just quarters. It begins from the Place de la Trinité and ends with the rue des Farges. The street belongs to the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

The coffeehouse and the square are particularly popular as they are the traditional decoration of the Guignol theater.

Guignol character in a French puppet show

Guignol is the main character in a French puppet show which has come to bear his name. It represents the workers in the silk industry of France.

Architecture

All the houses of the square are rather old. The "house of the sun", located at No. 2 rue Saint-Georges, was built in the 17th or 18th century by architect Philibert Delorme. Its northern facade is decorated with the figures of Guignol and Gnafron, a golden sun, a statue of a Madonna and a statue of St. Peter. The facade between the montée du Gourguillon and the rue Tramassac was restored with mullions on three arches of entry and a niche with a head of a lion fountain. [5] The sun is a reference to the owner of the house in the 18th century, named Barou du Soleil. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Vachet, Adolphe (1902). À travers les rues de Lyon (in French) (1982, Marseille ed.). Lyon: Laffitte reprints. p. 475. ISBN   2-7348-0062-4.
  2. 1 2 Brun De La Valette, Robert (1969). Lyon et ses rues (in French). Paris: Le Fleuve. p. 55.
  3. ↑ "Place de la Trinité" (in French). Routard. Retrieved 23 July 2009.
  4. ↑ Vanario, Maurice (2002). Rues de Lyon à travers les siècles (in French). Lyon: ELAH. pp. 296–97. ISBN   2-84147-126-8.
  5. ↑ "Place de la Trinité" (in French). Rues de Lyon. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
  6. ↑ Gambier, Gérald (2003). Vieux-Lyon, un patrimoine vivant (in French). Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne: La Taillanderie. p. 16. ISBN   2-87629-138-X.

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