Square des Trois Godets

At no. 34 rue de la Cité, the course of the Meldançon, a stream that bordered the first enclosure of the Gallo-Roman city of Augustobona Tricassium and which has now disappeared, has been marked out on the roadway with cobblestones.
The route passes beneath the Hospice St Nicolas, which covered the stream when it was built in 1836.
In the 15th century, slaughterhouses, then known as massacreries, tueries or écorcheries, were set up along the stream. The Quai de l'abattoir on the banks of the Seine is named after them.
At no. 36, the Pont Ferré house, typical of 16th-century Troyes, takes its name from the tolls levied by the bishop until 1530 on the horseshoes of horses crossing the nearby bridge. At the rear of this house, on the Square des Trois Godets side, a fine stone arch can be seen in the undercroft, which once spanned the stream running beneath the building.
Formerly rue de la Petite-Boucherie, which bordered the Meldançon, the square owes its current name to a former hotel bearing the Trois-Godets sign. Quiet and shady, it's the ideal place to admire the cathedral's chevet and the half-timbered houses, mainly dating from the 17th century.