In the 19th century, Le Havre became a large industrial city integrating a port dedicated to traffic
raw materials (cotton, coffee, spices, exotic wood ...) and passenger transport,
with the rise of the transatlantic.
The city center of Le Havre is the first reconstructed site (urban ensemble of the twentieth century) listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Major architect of the twentieth century, true "poet of concrete", visionary, Perret managed to give a new face
to a city ravaged by the Second World War. He reinvents a unique city with legible and airy architecture.
Architecture gives pride of place to the light, the same light, so special, that inspired Claude Monet Impression,
Rising Sun, painted in Le Havre in 1872. A painting that will give its name to the Impressionist movement.
