Today I completed the short hop from Honfleur to Le Havre and boarded the overnight ferry to Portsmouth.In the process I managed to add one more Unesco World Heritage site to the list, the town of Le Havre itself.
Le Havre centre the Unesco citation for Le Havre reads as follows :"The city was severely bombed during the Second World War. The destroyed area was rebuilt according to the plan of a team headed by Auguste Perret, from 1945 to 1964. The site forms the administrative, commercial and cultural centre of Le Havre. Le Havre is exceptional among many reconstructed cities for its unity and integrity. It combines a reflection of the earlier pattern of the town and its extant historic structures with the new ideas of town planning and construction technology. It is an outstanding post-war example of urban planning and architecture based on the unity of methodology and the use of prefabrication, the systematic utilization of a modular grid, and the innovative exploitation of the potential of concrete".
I suspect that this architecture is not to everyone's taste now and probably it should be severely bombed again !
I suspect that this architecture is not to everyone's taste now and probably it should be severely bombed again !
Arrival into Portsmouth ,0500 hrs
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