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Alongside the traditional architectural riches, Troyes has an industrial heritage of great value dating from the XIX and XX c. As well as the factories that gave the city its reputation, there are also the proprietors (or “masters”) houses and the workers quarters that are economic and social monuments now the object of attention from historians and architects.
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VILLA
GASTON VIARDOT (1908)
26, bd Gambetta
The Belle Epoque transformed middle-class housing into a highly decorated curio.
One of the examples of the Modern Style is the Villa Gaston Viardot, next to the Hôtel de la Caisse d’Epargne.
Also in the 1900 style, the “Villa au Héraut” at no 4 Bd. Carnot (running on from Bd. Gambetta), a villa in the form of a truncated pyramid topped with a statue of a herald of the Middle Ages.
THEATRE DE CHAMPAGNE (beginning XX c)
Boulevard Gambetta
Rebuilt in stone by H. Schmitt, architect of the Casino of Monte Carlo, on the foundations of the old wooden amphitheatre that burned down in 1892. The horseshoe emblems that decorate the capitals on the façade suggest that this was an equestrian amphitheatre.
THE MUSIC KIOSK
Jardin du Rocher (bd
Gambetta)
Built in 1889, in the oriental style, due to the generosity of a Troyes hosier.
HALLES BALTARD (covered market) (1874)
Quartier Saint Rémy
The Halles, or covered market, was built on the house of the Pithou brothers by Bataille, Périse and Moisant, in the Pure Baltard style, in a mixture of metal, cast iron and glass.
For a city with 38,000 inhabitants it was one of the largest markets in France. With an area of 60 m X 42 m and 297 places rented out to stallholders, its design was already futuristic.
(Market open every day – large market on Saturday)
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