It is a time that the under 18s cannot know. And today, they would have a hard time believing it. Assumed pride of Nancy, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a real architectural treasure with its doors decorated with gold leaf signed Jean Lamour and its statue of the Duke of Lorraine Stanislas Leszczynski, Place Stanislas was still a huge parking lot at the early 2000s and a central crossing point for cars.
It is only since 2005 that it has been pedestrianized and that walkers can stroll through it thanks to a renovation which has revealed all its beauty. From the first decisions wanted by the former mayor of Nancy André Rossinot to prohibit parking there until the title of “Favorite monument of the French” awarded by Stéphane Bern on September 15, a look back at these years of transformation which made the Place Stanislas one of the most beautiful in the world.
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