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Hôtel de Ville, Lyon

Coordenadas : 45°46′03″N 4°50′06″E / 45.7676°N 4.8350°E / 45.7676; 4.8350 El Hôtel de Ville ( Pronunciación francesa: [ otɛl də vil ] ⓘ , Ayuntamiento ) es el ayuntamiento de Ly...

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Coordenadas : 45°46′03″N 4°50′06″E / 45.7676°N 4.8350°E / 45.7676; 4.8350

El Hôtel de Ville ( Pronunciación francesa: [ otɛl də vil ]ⓘ , Ayuntamiento ) es el ayuntamiento deLyon, Francia, y uno de los edificios históricos más grandes de la ciudad. El edificio está situado entre laPlace des Terreauxy la Place de la Comédie, frente a laOpéra Nouvel. Fue declarado monumento histórico por el gobierno francés en 1886. [ 1 ]

Historia

Gran parte de Lyon fue remodelada en el siglo XVII, convirtiéndose la Presqu'île en el centro de la ciudad. Como parte del plan maestro para la zona, el ayuntamiento decidió encargar un nuevo ayuntamiento para Lyon. El emplazamiento elegido se encontraba entre la Place des Terreaux y la Place de la Comédie. [ 2 ]

Construction of the new building was deliberately timed to commence on the birthday of King Louis XIV, 5 September 1646.[3][4] It was designed by Simon Maupin in the Renaissance Revival style, built ashlar stone and the council held their first meeting there on 14 November 1652.[5] The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of nine bays facing west onto the Place des Terreaux with the end two bays on either side projected forward as pavilions. The central bay featured a square-headed doorway flanked by Ionic order columns supporting an entablature. The other bays on the ground floor were fenestrated by round-headed windows with architraves and keystones. The bays on the first floor were fenestrated by square-headed windows with triangular pediment, while the bays on the second floor were fenestrated by segmental headed windows. In the centre bay on the second floor there was a half-relief of King Louis XIV on horseback, and at roof level, there was a balustradedparapet and some finely carved sculptures, as well as a central clock tower with a dome.[6][7] The Grande Salle, the Staircase of Honour, the Salon de la Conservation, and the Salon de la Nomination were all decorated by the French painter, Thomas Blanchet.[8]

Following a fire on 13 September 1674,[9] the building, including its façade, was restored and modified to design by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and his pupil Robert de Cotte.[10]

In March 1793, during the French Revolution, the building was under the control of a group of counter-revolutionaries, led by Joseph Chalier, who were in revolt against the National Convention. This was brought to an end by the siege of Lyon between August and October 1793.[11] The half-relief depicting King Louis XIV on horseback, in the middle of the façade was removed by the revolutionaries at this time. It was replaced during the Restoration with a half-relief depicting King Henry IV in the same posture.[9]

On 22 March 1871, inspired by the establishment of the Paris Commune, a crowd of revolutionary guardsmen stormed the city hall and proclaimed the establishment of a similar commune in Lyon. They arrested the mayor and the prefect of the city. However, the insurrection only lasted a few days and on 25 March 1871, the revolutionaries left the building peacefully.[12] During the liberation of the town on 3 September 1944, during the Second World War, the 1st Free French Division, supported by the US 36th Infantry Division and the French Forces of the Interior seized the town hall.[13] In 2005, its belfry was added to the UNESCOWorld Heritage Site group of the Belfries of Belgium and France.[14]

References

  1. ↑Base Mérimée: PA00117820, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
  2. ↑Hodder, Edwin (1881). "Map of Lyon".
  3. ↑"Hôtel de Ville, Lyon". Divento. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  4. ↑Hamilton, Sarah (2016). Defining the Holy Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-1351945615.
  5. ↑"Council meetings BB206, folios 417–418". Archives of Lyon. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  6. ↑Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, Hoefer (Jean Chrétien Ferdinand), Firmin Didot frères (Paris), p 394
  7. ↑"Hôtel de Ville". Archives Municipales Lyon. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  8. ↑Galactéros, Lucie (1991). Thomas Blanchet: 1614–1689. Paris: Arthena. pp. 153–154. ISBN 978-2903239114.
  9. 12Debidour,Laferrere, Lyon et ses environs, Arthaud editions, 2 October 1990 (ISBN 978-2700301151)
  10. ↑Jacques Louis Delpal, Merveille du Lyonnais et du Beaujolais , La Martinière editions, 2 January 1996 (ISBN 978-2732420813)
  11. ↑Suratteau, Jean-René (2005). "Lyon". Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française. p. 690.
  12. ↑Milza, Pierre (2009). L'année terrible: La Commune (mars–juin 1871) (in French). Paris: Perrin. pp. 158–160. ISBN 978-2-262-03073-5.
  13. ↑"75e anniversaire de la libération de Lyon". Chemins de mémoire. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  14. ↑"Belfries of Belgium and France". UNESCO. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
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