Monument Fontaine des Innocents in Paris

You're standing on the place Joachim-du-Bellay, right in the Les Halles district. In front of you is the Fontaine des Innocents, the oldest monumental fountain in Paris. Architect Pierre Lescot and sculptor Jean Goujon built it between 1547 and 1550, in what was then the brand-new style of the French Renaissance. Its original name was the Fountain of the Nymphs. Look at the slender female figures in those narrow panels and you'll see why.