Vieux-Lyon, Maison des Avocats

Here you can discover another example of beautiful Renaissance architecture in the neighbourhood. In 1979 the Order of Lawyers acquired the property and began restoration. From this fourteenth-century coaching inn, only the wide doorway that allowed carriages to enter the court remains. You can admire the twelve Tuscan arches resting on columns with flat capitals on three superimposed galleries, as well as the replaced well. All this dates from 1516. When a new school for training young lawyers was built, the Lawyers’ House became home to the Miniature and Cinema Museum in 2004.