La Place du Change
Neoclassical money-changers' hall topped by twin clocks, one finished two hundred fifty years late.
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This guide to La Place du Change in Lyon follows architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot's 1740s facade for the city's old money-changers' hall, designed with two clocks: an ordinary one on the right, and on the left a far more ambitious face meant to track the day, month and year. It traces the building through the Revolution, an abandoned inn, and two centuries as a Protestant temple, with that second clock face left blank the entire time. Stand back from the facade to take in both clocks side by side.
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