Place Champollion

Place Champollion is in Figeac, Lot, Occitanie. Place Champollion is situated nearby to Champollion Museum, as well as near the art gallery Meraki.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rosetta Stone and Champollion Museum.

Rosetta Stone

Work of art

Photo: Awikimate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Rosetta Stone is a stele of granodiorite inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in 196 BC during the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes.

The Champollion Museum is located in Figeac, Lot, France. It houses a collection devoted to Figeac's most famous son, Jean-François Champollion. It was inaugurated 19 December 1986 in the presence of President François Mitterrand and Jean Leclant, secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Hôtel de Laporte

Historic building

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Hôtel de Laporte is a historic building, which is situated 120 metres northwest of Place Champollion.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Figeac and Camburat.

Figeac

Town

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Figeac is a commune in the southwestern French department of Lot. Figeac is a sub-prefecture of the department.

Camburat

Village

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Camburat is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. Camburat is situated 5 km northwest of Place Champollion.

Capdenac-Gare

Village

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Capdenac-Gare is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. The old village of Capdenac is directly west of Capdenac-Gare, across the river Lot. Capdenac-Gare is situated 5 km southeast of Place Champollion.

Place Champollion

Type: Pedestrian zone
Location: Figeac, Arrondissement of Figeac, Lot, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude

44.60962° or 44° 36′ 35″ north

Longitude

2.03461° or 2° 2′ 5″ east

Open location code

8FP4J25M+RR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 41160717

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=pedestrian

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In Other Languages

“Place Champollion” goes by many names.

Occitan (post 1500): “Plaça de las Castanhas”

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Highlights include Police Municipale and Meraki.

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