Mamunur’s guidebook

Gothic cathedral, built from 13th to 16th centuries, famous for its huge area of stained glass.

It was built in 1802, then called Place Royale, next to the old citadel and the limits of the city. During the annexation , the place is renamed Platz des Führers 1 . The Universal Exhibition of 1861 was organized on this square and on the Esplanade which prolongs it. It is bounded by three urban facades: Robert-Schuman Avenue in the south-east where is the Bank of France , southwest by the rue du Maréchal-Lyautey which borders the Ney barracks ; on the side parallel with Winston-Churchill Street, a shopping street that runs along the hypercentre and leads to the courthouse . Ney Avenue marks an open boundary on the Esplanade Gardens . From 1964, an air parking occupies the place of the Republic of which it takes the name. The Republic Station, formerly known as the Republic Gallery, is an underground shopping arcade with some twenty shops in the north-east of the Place de la République. It was born with the creation of the Arsenal underground car park in 1969. A surface entry on Ney Avenue gives access to it. In 1987-1988, with the expansion of the car park, an extension of the gallery was dug under Winston-Churchill Avenue, in order to develop its commercial space and link it to the Galeries Lafayette and Fnac stores . A new access is thus created rue Winston-Churchill. The reconfiguration of the place is entrusted to the architecture firm Richez Associés 2 and to the workshop Villes & Paysages 3 , it was inaugurated on November 20 April 2010 The complete redevelopment of the Republic Square was completed in late autumn 2010. The square became a pedestrian space planted with trees following the construction in 2008 of an underground car park under the Esplanade which increases the number of available spaces in the pre-existing Arsenal underground car park and thus compensates for the disappearance of the car park. The square is served by the Mettis (bus network in own site), remaining a central node connecting the metropolitan bus lines Le Mettis, the location of their stops and the streets bordering the square being redefined