Place Neuve Square. The south-west of the Old Town is the location of New Square (Place Neuve) , the central part of which is notable because of the equestrian monument dedicated to Swiss General Guillaume Henri Dufour (1787-1875). The author of the monument is sculptor Alfred Lanza (1879-1894). During the topographic shooting of Switzerland in 1832-1864, which was headed by Dufour, he managed to create a topographic map of the country, known as "map Dufour" (scale 1:100 '000, 25 pages). During the civil war of 1847 the general was the commander of the union army that fought against seven Catholic cantons, known as Sonderbund. In 1857, Dufour applied efforts to make Prussia reject Neunburg, which is now a part of Switzerland.
Wall of the Reformers. Beautiful Parc des Bastions is the location of Reformers Wall (Mur des Reformateurs) . Many years ago Geneva became home to the head of the Protestant Reformation, John Calvin and his associates. By the way, at first Calvin was banished from the city because of his opinion that was very strict and rough. However, after his return in 1541, Geneva became the "reformist Rome”. The supporters of the ideas of Calvinism arrived in the city from different parts of Europe.
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