Narbonne - Town Hall

(Local Name: l'Hôtel-de-Ville) The central feature of Narbonne is the rectangular Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, with the former Archbishop's Palace (13th-14th C.), between whose three massive towers Viollet-le-Duc inserted the neo-Gothic Hôtel de Ville (Town Hall) in 1845-1850. Within the Town Hall are the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire (paintings of the 19th and 20th C., enamels, furniture, ceramics) and the Musée Archéologique (prehistoric, classical and medieval antiquities). The Passage de l'Ancre, a street running between the Tour St-Martial and the Tour de la Madeleine, links the Vieux Palais (12th C.) with the Palais Neuf (14th C.). The Cour de la Madeleine, in the Vieux Palais, is particularly fine.