SQUARE SAINT-ROCH
A square in Le Havre adorned with Judas trees, featuring a Belle Époque bandstand and several statues.
Following the trees that border Avenue Foch, we arrived at Square Saint-Roch, which was successively a hospice - the "pre-health" - then a cemetery in past centuries. At that time, a café owner installed in front of the cemetery door had written on his sign: "Here we are better than on the face". The place is now definitely bucolic, even though there is nothing left of the 1867 maritime exhibition where Gustave Lennier developed a huge aquarium visited by the Empress of Austria or the Emperor of Brazil. Since 1968, it has the appearance of the Japanese bridge, weeping willow, bald cypress, magnolias, ginkgo, and other trees. All these plants lead to the "Belle Epoque" music booth. Near the water feature, there is a magnificent wrought iron tripod. It used to guide the manoeuvres around the basins, some of the semaphore at the time of the creation of the city. Several statues adorn the square, including a "rustic Idylle" that adds to the garden atmosphere.
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