Site archéologique de la Cathédrale Saint-Pierre de Genève
Layered ruins beneath a Reformation cathedral, with early churches, mosaics, and a pre-Christian tomb.
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This guide to the archaeological site beneath Geneva's Saint-Pierre Cathedral opens with Guillaume Farel climbing into a pulpit he had been banned from using, on an August afternoon in 1535 that set off a riot and, within months, the city's formal break from the Catholic Mass. It follows Farel's recruitment of a young, reluctant Frenchman named John Calvin, who stayed twenty-three years and turned Geneva into a byword for Reformed strictness. Then it takes you underground, beneath the nave the Reformers stripped bare, to ask what the iconoclasts never reached. Stand where Calvin once preached before you descend.
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