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Monplaisir, Lyon — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Monplaisir is a historical quarter of Lyon in the 8th arrondissement, centred on Ambroise Courtois Square, once called Monplaisir Square.
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Where to stay in Monplaisir
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
Ambroise Courtois Square is the point a stay in Monplaisir would be measured from, since the quarter is centred on it and the square once carried the name Monplaisir itself. Rooms are a Lyon question. Nothing in the record marks out a hotel street inside this historical quarter of the 8th arrondissement, so a traveller books in the commune and treats Monplaisir as somewhere to walk to rather than somewhere to sleep.
Few places to stay in Monplaisir — most visitors book in Lyon nearby.
About Monplaisir
What are the main landmarks in Monplaisir?
A square, and nothing catalogued beside it. Ambroise Courtois Square is the centre the record gives Monplaisir, and because the list of monuments attached to the quarter is empty, that square does the work a cathedral or a museum would do elsewhere in Lyon. The name changed at some point.
Monplaisir Square is what it was called before, so the quarter and its central open space have each carried the same name in turn.
What is the history of Monplaisir?
The word historical is the record's own. Monplaisir is described as a historical quarter of Lyon, and the single change the extract preserves is a renaming: the open space at its middle, formerly Monplaisir Square, became Ambroise Courtois Square. No year is attached.
Where the quarter sits in the modern division of the commune is the 8th arrondissement, and beyond that the file in France offers nothing further.
Where is Monplaisir?
Ambroise Courtois Square marks the centre of Monplaisir, a quarter of Lyon that the record places inside the 8th arrondissement.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Monplaisir?
Lyon: travellers wanting the 8th arrondissement in reach and a hotel desk to hand.
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Updated September 2026