HISTORY BORDEAUX: history of Saint Michel district of Bordeaux

Saint Michel District History

The district Saint Michel, built around the basilica of blazing Gothic style dedicated to the archangel, is the district the most alive and the most colored with the city. A market is held Mondays and Saturdays morning under the arrow, shops and shops quite all around maintain a picturesque popular animation which the poets of Bordeaux always looked for, Meste Verdié or Ulysses Despaux. Lighters profoundly flat loaded with wooden loads of Quercy, Rouergue or Gascony, cast anchor at the foot of Saint Michel, off-loaded some wood which fed the workshops of the carpenters of the street Carpenteyre, the coopers of the street of Fusterie. The iron was worked on the smiths and the gunsmiths of the street des Faures. The salt, stored quay of Salinières, was of use to the driers of fishes and established meats street of Rousselle. Artisans, sailors of any countries, porters, curious onlookers, middle-class persons mixed, quarrelled; Regrattières, four seasons merchants, called you in the passage in their language full of savour but redoubtable. We sang, we played cards, we drank in the numerous cabarets which " were of use to jar and to pint ".

The triangle Church Holy Michel, market of Capucins, Park Holy Jean is a slum area. He has a long time was the district of the outcasts and the imigrés. The official speech of the city speaks about wealth in colour, people who lived here were effectively all the colours but unite in the same poverty. Nowadays with the renovation of the district Saint Michel and of the market of the Capucins, it seems that there is a will of erradiquer the poverty of this district, but is possible be only to move it a little farther...
TheCapucins, are a big market hall. With the numerous deliveries of fresh products, it is a place full of activity where there is still little we could find some work for a matiné the time to unload the loads of new products. In 1999, the market was arrested, completely shaved and reconstructed.
The Holy district Michel has for centre the tower holy Michel. The highest historic building of Bordeaux with its arrow which peaks in 114 metres. In summer the tower is opened to the public, the rest of the year... Stairs allow to rise up to 50 metres above the ground, we have from there a complete sight of the city of Bordeaux.

In him under ground of the tower were already found several years ago a series of mummies arranged in a macabre round dance. Nobody knows that represent these mummies.
The basilica Saint Michel is not in rest, placed ready-made of the tower she is impressionante by her size. On the place of the district for a long time is regularly held a market, where we can find of everything and especially things the origin of which it is better to ignore.

The centre André Malraux is a building built in an optics of modernity. He could be very beautiful if the pollution of exhaust gases of in the nearness of docks had not darkened facades. The centre André Malraux in some vocation. One of that this is to be a pole of culture. We so find within it the conservatoire of Bordeaux. Regularly we play it plays and\or concert. More the numerous rooms are used for meetings in any kind. Since its construction the toreadors works at the integration of this building in Elyseum, but present jusquà marquess always opposed to it.