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Housed in a magnificent 17th-century former Benedictine abbey on Place des Terreaux, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon is considered the finest art museum in France outside the Louvre. Its 70 rooms span antiquities to modern art across a staggering breadth of European painting and sculpture.
The Palais Saint-Pierre was a royal abbey founded in the 7th century. Following the French Revolution, it was converted into a museum in 1801 under the direct orders of Napoleon. The building was classified as a historic monument in 1927.