Ceety BoyFrançaisMonuments and statues of Cotonou
Cotonou has big roundabouts and squares with monuments and statues. Here are 13, west to east (10 already in 3D in Ceety Boy): a photo, their story in two sentences, and how to get there from a known landmark.
Monument Bio Guera
At Carrefour Erevan, near the airport, the national hero Bio Guéra rides a rearing horse with a long lance. The metal statue is about ten metres tall and weighs thirteen tonnes.
How to get there: 450 m in a straight line from Aéroport Bernardin Gantin de Cotonou
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Place du Souvenir
Place du Souvenir, once called Place des Martyrs. Its bronze group of three armed figures with a flag stands about ten metres high and honours those who died in the attack of 16 January 1977.
How to get there: 1.9 km by road from Cadjèhoun · map and route
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Place de l'Amazone
The Amazon Monument honours the Dahomey Amazons. The bronze-clad statue is 30 m tall, weighs 150 tonnes and stands on the Esplanade des Amazones in Cotonou's 12th district.
How to get there: 1.4 km by road from Centre International de Conférences · map and route
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Place de l'Étoile Rouge
Place de l'Étoile Rouge is the biggest roundabout in the city. A red five-pointed star spreads across the circle, and on top of a tall column a worker raises a rifle, a bundle of wood and a hoe.
How to get there: 1.6 km by road from Fondation Zinsou · map and route
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Place de Bulgarie
Place de Bulgarie, in Gbégamey. A statue of Georgi Dimitrov in a dark suit stands in front of a tall slab with an inscription, on a raised square with steps.
How to get there: 690 m in a straight line from Centre de Promotion de l'Artisanat
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Carrefour 16 Ampoules
Carrefour 16 Ampoules is named after an old light mast with sixteen bulbs. In April 2024 the city rebuilt it as a public square, with a golden fish on a cream column, turquoise benches and young palms.
How to get there: 1.3 km in a straight line from Marché Saint-Michel
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Bénin face à son destin
At Carrefour BIIC, the former Carrefour BIBE in Jéricho, stands « Bénin face à son destin »: a white figure leaning forward, one arm stretched far ahead, on a stack of white blocks. Beside it, a mosaic-covered pillar has an opening shaped like the map of Benin, next to a sculpted corn cob.
How to get there: 290 m in a straight line from Marché Saint-Michel
Not in 3D in Ceety Boy yet.
Carrefour Lègba
At Carrefour Lègba, in Saint-Michel, a sculpture almost seven metres tall stands on the island. Four figures with mask heads surround a column, under a blue disc and a grey globe.
How to get there: 140 m in a straight line from Marché Saint-Michel
Not in 3D in Ceety Boy yet.
Monument aux Dévoués
The Monument aux Dévoués is a fifteen-metre black granite obelisk with a gold tip, in the Jardins de Mathieu near the port. Its inscription remembers the children of Benin devoted to their homeland.
How to get there: 1.2 km by road from Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Miséricorde · map and route
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Une place à Placodji
On the boulevard median next to the new Ganhi market, a golden figure sits on a dark green octagonal plinth, with a bowl of fruit. Photos from 2019 already show it here, and it was still there in July 2026.
How to get there: 80 m in a straight line from Ganhi
Not in 3D in Ceety Boy yet.
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Miséricorde
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Miséricorde is Cotonou's main Catholic church and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Cotonou, created in 1955. It stands near the Ancien Pont and is known for its burgundy-and-white striped tiled architecture.
How to get there: 1.7 km by road from Mosquée de Zongo · map and route
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Place Lénine
Place Lénine is the second biggest roundabout in Cotonou. A statue of Lenin stood here until around 1990, at the end of the Kérékou regime; its stepped plinth stayed behind, empty.
How to get there: 1.5 km by road from Ancien Pont · map and route
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
La Biche à la rivière
La Biche à la rivière stands in the middle of Carrefour Ciné Concorde in Akpakpa. Big grey boulders rise from a round pool, and in the 2019 photos deer sculptures stand on the grass beside it.
How to get there: 520 m in a straight line from Stade René Pleven d'Akpakpa
See it in 3D: soon in the app.
Sources: the stories come from our roundabout survey (dated photos, press); positions come from OpenStreetMap. Photos: Wikimedia Commons, authors and licences under each picture. Sources and method.