Marché des Capucins
Iron-and-glass covered market halls built partly from a dismantled world's fair pavilion.
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This guide to Marche des Capucins in Bordeaux traces the ironwork over your head back to Paris, to the acres of temporary pavilions left behind when the 1878 Universal Exposition closed and nobody needed them anymore. You'll hear how Bordeaux's city council bought that leftover metal to roof this centuries-old produce square, and how the architect Charles Burguet borrowed the iron-and-glass style Victor Baltard had made famous at the Paris market of Les Halles. It follows traders who had sold cattle and vegetables here under open sky since 1749, suddenly working beneath a stranger's discarded skeleton of glass and steel.
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