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Archbishop's Palace Of Bordeaux
The Palais Rohan is the name of the Hôtel de Ville, or City Hall, of Bordeaux, France. The building was constructed from 1771 to 1784, originally serving as the Archbishop's Palace of Bordeaux. History In 1771, the new Archbishop of Bordeaux, Ferdinand Maximilien Mériadec, prince of Rohan, decided to rebuild the old medieval archbishop's residence, viewing it as not being worthy of its rank. The new building was designed by the architect Richard-François Bonfin, it took 13 years to build and was completed in 1784. It is a hôtel particulier, "entre cour et jardin" (placed "between a courtyard and a garden"), and features an austere Louis XVI-style façade. Its staircase is considered a masterpiece of stone masonry. After the French Revolution, in 1791, the building housed the Gironde department prefecture. In 1837 it became the Bordeaux Town Hall. The municipal council room, designed in 1889, is characteristic of official architecture during the Third Republic. The garde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. Its inhabitants are called ''"Bordelais"'' (masculine) or ''"Bordelaises"'' (feminine). The term "Bordelais" may also refer to the city and its surrounding region. The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 260,958 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , With its 27 suburban municipalities it forms the Bordeaux Metropolis, in charge of metropolitan issues. With a population of 814,049 at the Jan. 2019 census. it is the fifth most populated in France, after Paris, Lyon, Marseille and Lille and ahead of Toulouse. Together with its suburbs and exurbs, except satellite cities of Arcachon and Libourne, the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,363,711 that same year (Jan. 2019 census), making ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
