Galerie Bordelaise
Diagonal nineteenth-century covered passage of marble columns and iron gates, carved with horns of plenty.
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This guide to the Galerie Bordelaise in Bordeaux follows four Mexican exiles who fled Veracruz's war of independence in the early 1820s and sank a fortune into an unusual diagonal shopping arcade cut through a city block. It centers on Ramona de la Torre, an heiress among them, and architect Gabriel-Joseph Durand, who finished the ironwork and marble columns by 1834. Look up as you walk the passage: cornucopias, horns of plenty spilling fruit and coin, are carved above the shopfronts again and again.
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