Porte du Peyrou

The Porte du Peyrou was worked in 1691, on the old city dividers, focused on the greatness of Louis XIV. Arranged on the most imperative summit of Montpellier, the milestone is the most surely understood noteworthy purpose of the city. It offers at the most elevated purpose of its 103 phases a critical point of view of Montpellier and its condition.
Worked between the Haussmanian Rue Foch and the Parc du Peyrou, the Porte du Peyrou of Montpellier towers aboive the city with its important estimations of 15 meters, 18 meters wide, yet also a patio of 4.70 meters of opening and 7 meters high. The Porte du peyrou is made out of low enable which to exhibit distinctive periods of the administer of Louis XIV: the complete of the Canal du Midi, the denial of the Edict of Nantes, the taking of Namur, yet it is moreover possible to regard an insignia addressing the Sun King murdering a lion which represents the English enemy and the distinguishing proof of the city of Montpellier.