Temple du Change

This guide to the Temple du Change in Lyon follows the money changers who once worked this square, nicknamed the city's Wall Street, converting coin for merchants pouring in during Lyon's tax-free trade fairs. It traces the building's rebuilding decades later by a young Jacques-Germain Soufflot, long before he designed the Pantheon in Paris, and the line from Cicero he stamped across its front. Look up at that inscription as you step through the doorway.