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The construction of the Wall in the Bastions Park began in 1909, the year which marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of Jean Calvin and the 350th of the foundation of the Academy of Geneva. The monument is backed against part of the ancient defensive walls that surrounded the city until the middle of the 19th century. At the center of the wall, five meters high, are the four great figures of the movement: Guillaume Farel, one of the first to preach the Reformation in Geneva, Jean Calvin the "pope" of the reformers, Théodore de Bèze first rector of the Academy and John Knox founder of Presbyterianism in Scotland.
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Western Europe
