The Place Louis Pradel is a modern open space next to the Opera House. The square is dedicated to Louis Pradel, Mayor of Lyon during the 1950's.
Not far from this square, in Place des Terreaux, sits one of the biggest museums in France: Lyon's Museum of Fine Arts. This museum offers a vast collection of works of art from ancient Greece and Egypt to the present. Works of the most famous artists of all times --Veronese, Rubens, Delacroix, Monet, Gauguin-- can be found in its halls.