The promenade du Peyrou , also called Place Royale du Peyrou , is an esplanade of 4.59  ha located to the west of the Écusson district in the city of Montpellier ( Hérault ), on the edge of the former „commune“ wall. -fencing „. This set, classified among the historical monuments , represents a conjunction of five works: the promenade and its terraces allowing to contemplate the Cévennes and the Pyrenees which was fitted out in 1689 , the Porte du Peyrou or the Arc de Triomphe with its bridge and its access ramps. Later, in 1927, the construction of a sundial analemmatic , conducted at the initiative of Pierre Humbert and in 1939, taking the symbolic picture of the resistant Jean Moulin . Important renovations have been carried out since the 1980s to preserve the site.