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The oldest quarter of Paris is Les Halles, full of history has become one of the most famous and frequented by tourists who come here and want to know more in detail the origins of the city.
The history of the city refers to its growth and also to the need for greater supply. Therefore, in 1135 Louis VI ordered the current market Plaza del Ayuntamiento, which at the time bore the name of the Place de Greve, to its current location in the neighborhood Le Halles be transferred.
Later in 1183 was Philip Augustus who ordered the construction of two huge structures which were given the name "halles" to define fashion house these covered markets that have long maintained both its facilities and its status as a major market town.
The market district of Les Halles was modernized fashion house in 1851 at the request of Napoleon III who commissioned the project to the architect Baltard, who designed a great set of ten metal pavilions and with the addition of glasses, which later became famous as the "umbrella Baltard "and transformed the market that Napoleon called as" The Louvre of the people "when his detractors reproached the little beauty of the structure and high cost led construction.
However, Paris continued its growth and again in the twentieth century Les Halles again proved insufficient to meet the demands of the population. So it was decided fashion house to transfer the entire mall to the suburbs of the city, which was conducted in 1963 resulting fashion house in the marketplace remain a big empty space must then do a complete remodel of the old neighborhood.
As President Georges Pompidou wanted to give Paris a more modern architecture ordered several changes to the city with works that raised the Montparmnasse Torre and modified neighborhood of Defense, but nothing was done with the empty space still existed in Les Halles, something that finally changed when Paris wins a new regional fashion house metro line.
In 1979 work began to build the great Forum des Halles shopping center with a magnificent five underground levels of which three are fully commercial including cinemas, restaurants and a swimming pool and two levels were used to parking.
Alongside fashion house this Forum des Halles is the beautiful Church of Saint Eustache a masterpiece of Gothic style. A temple was begun in 1532 and his work took nearly a century of work although some parts were never completed. In this church, Louis XIV received his first communion and held their wedding celebrated Moliere.
Inside, the church contains one of the largest fashion house organs in the world in France it was built in 1854 distinguished by its excellent acoustics that adds up to a magnificent dome of the temple.
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