The Palace of the General Council ( French: Palais du conseil général) is the base of the Departmental Council of Guadeloupe.

History

It was built by architect

Ali Tur Ali Georges Tur (20 February 1889 – 26 September 1977) is a French architect. He is known for the hundreds of buildings he designed and built in Guadeloupe from 1929 to 1937 for a total amount of 72 million francs. Early life Tur was born ...

in 1935. It was the last building he designed in the archipelago. On 15 December 1997, the palace was listed as a

historic monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, his ...

References

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