Place Pélissière

Pilgrimage stop on the Santiago de Compostela route. Statue of Cyrano de
Bergerac, polychrome bronze by Mauro Corda :inaugurated in 2005, this
bronze celebrates both Savinien Cyrano (1619-1655), the libertine musketeer author of “Voyage dans les États et Empires du Soleil” and the heroic and poignant theatre character that he inspired Edmond Rostand to create in Cyrano de Bergerac, first
performed in Paris in 1897.