Evening sunshine turns arched ironwork above the ‘street of glass’ to gold in a perspective view of part of the glazed barrel-vaulted roof crowning Passage Boyer, named after its creator, goldsmith Jean Boyer and built by the unemployed in the mid-19th century at Carpentras, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France. It is now an elegant all-weather shopping mall protected by an arched glass and cast iron roof 90m (295 ft) long and 5m (16 ft) wide.
Carpentras, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France: blue sky and golden reflections above the ‘street of glass’, in a perspective view of the glazed barrel-vaulted roof crowning Passage Boyer, built by the unemployed in the mid-19th century. It is now a fashionable and elegant all-weather mall contrasting with the retail outlets under medieval arches in nearby Rue des Halles. The ‘rue vitrée’ was built by the Ateliers Nationaux or National Workshops, publicly-funded organisations revived by the provisional government of the Second Republic to provide work for the jobless amid the industrial crisis resulting from the February Revolution of 1848. The glass roof is supported by arches and an iron frame 90m (295 ft) long and 5m (16 ft) wide. Passage Boyer is named after Carpentras goldsmith Jean Boyer, a prominent citizen who bought and subsequently demolished the properties that lined the original street here in order to create the covered arcade.
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Location: Passage Boyer, Carpentras, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Photo credit: © Terence Kerr / Alamy / Afripics
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