Fourviere Hotel 85 images Created 19 Nov 2015
Ideally situated on the top of Roman amphitheaters, has two steps of the Basilica, Fourviere Hotel reinvents the old convent of the Visitation.
In 1854 on the hill of Fourvière which sheltered then numerous monasteries, the convent of the Visitation Saint-Marie is one of the first works of Pierre-Marie Bossan (1814-1888) in Lyon. He is best known to be the architect of the basilica Notre-Dame of Fourvière. Like so many others, the monastery knew about the XXth century vicissitudes bound to the reduction in the vocations and weak economic conditions of the order, who worsened after the Second World War.
It is then sold to the City of Lyon in 1965.
Rented in 1970 to the Hospices Civiles of Lyon to accommodate student nurses, it is transformed into 1974 to receive the archives of Homes, kept in the Hôtel-Dieu.
Strengths:
- An unusual reception situated in the old chapel of the Convent.
- A visual route created specially by the French-Argentine artist Pablo Reinoso.
- The history of Lyon told through the characters who shaped her, on the doors of 75 rooms repartees on 3 levels.
- Les Telephones, restaurant deployed around the peristyle of the convent with view onto the garden.
In 1854 on the hill of Fourvière which sheltered then numerous monasteries, the convent of the Visitation Saint-Marie is one of the first works of Pierre-Marie Bossan (1814-1888) in Lyon. He is best known to be the architect of the basilica Notre-Dame of Fourvière. Like so many others, the monastery knew about the XXth century vicissitudes bound to the reduction in the vocations and weak economic conditions of the order, who worsened after the Second World War.
It is then sold to the City of Lyon in 1965.
Rented in 1970 to the Hospices Civiles of Lyon to accommodate student nurses, it is transformed into 1974 to receive the archives of Homes, kept in the Hôtel-Dieu.
Strengths:
- An unusual reception situated in the old chapel of the Convent.
- A visual route created specially by the French-Argentine artist Pablo Reinoso.
- The history of Lyon told through the characters who shaped her, on the doors of 75 rooms repartees on 3 levels.
- Les Telephones, restaurant deployed around the peristyle of the convent with view onto the garden.
