1674 – Hotel de Ville, Lyon, France
Architect: Jules Hardouin-Mansart
The Town Hall on place des Terreaux,
The Town Hall on place des Terreaux,
Designed as a multipurpose building to house the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Court as well as a museum of art and industry,
With the spread of railway networks across Europe,
Published in The Building News,
In 1756, one of the first opera houses created inside an existing freestanding building was opened in Lyon.