Fountains, Squares and Bridges

Piazza Notre-Dame de Grenoble

On this lively square are Notre-Dame Cathedral and its portico tower (13th), Saint-Hugues Church (13th) and the Baptistery (4th-6th). The magnificent Fountain of the Three Orders (1897) commemorates the pre-revolutionary events of 1788, and as history is never far away in Grenoble, the Fountain (erected in 1888) reminds us that the meeting of the Clergy, Nobility and the Third State of the Dauphiné in 1788. A fundamental event of the French Revolution.

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