# Place des Jacobins

Lyon, France

An elegant square where twelve streets of the Presqu'île converge, named after a Dominican convent whose friars settled near Ainay in 1235 and began building a convent and church in 1240. Its tiered white fountain of 1885 honours four artists of Lyon beneath the rich facades of the 19th-century city.

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Coordinates: 45.7605, 4.83355

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