While many French people are now caulked at home, 76actu offers a lunchtime presentation of a place in Rouen, just to get some air … from home.
Posted on Mar 25, 20 at 12:37 p.m.
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Wednesday March 25, 2020, confinement from France, day 9. In this context, the drafting of 76actu – herself recluse as far as possible – offers you a daily meeting, the presentation of a picturesque, remarkable or amazing place Rouen heritage*. And there is plenty to do, the ” city of a hundred spiers », to use the famous expression of Victor Hugo, teeming with diverse and varied treasures that tell the little story as well as the great History.
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Creation of an avenue
Seventh episode of this series, in the form of a daily break from our now cloistered life: a shaved neighborhood. In fact, in the 1970s, the Golden Apple, south of the street Saint-Nicaise, is destroyed. At the time, it was a question of constructing modern buildings, but also of tracing theavenue de la Porte-des-Champs. The work also engulfed a street that had existed for centuries, rue des Matelas, which however was not on the way to the new avenue.
Imagine (since you like me are now inside). The street was between the Saint-Vivien school and the Philippon barracks. Today it is a building courtyard, where there is an old street image. It was very popular with photographers and artists because it offered a picturesque view of the Saint-Vivien church. The Saint-Nicaise and Croix-de-Pierre districts were also to suffer the same fate. Fortunately it was not …
A giant apple
In the current Place de la Pomme-d’Or, in the residence behind the Hôtel-de-Ville gardens, a concrete monument was erected in the 1970s. It is a giant apple covered with a mosaic. This concrete fruit symbolically recalls the ancient crossing of the Pomme-d’Or and Friendship streets.
* This selection comes from the series already offered by 76actu, on unknown, unusual or “secret” places in Rouen, carried out in partnership with Daniel Caillet, heritage lover, author of blog on the subject, and Aurélie Daniel, independent cultural leader, creator of the Les balades rouennaises concept.
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