The Havre is a city of the northwest of France, located in the right border of the estuary of the Seine. Administratively, it is a city of the department of the Marine Seine and the region of the Normandía Discharge.
Havre meant, formerly, “port”. The city was called, at first, Franciscopolis in tribute to Francisco I who took the initiative from his construction (1517), later was called Him Havre (or It speaks to him) of Grâce, this last term came from the chapel of Notre-Dame-of-Grâce which already it existed in the place before the foundation of the city.
Su it sobrenames is Oceanic Door. Architectonic speaking, this image comes given by the “door” that forms the building that is at the end of the Foch avenue that ends at the sea. It is the second French port, the first city normanda and the second metropolitan area of the Normandía Discharge.
UNESCO registered urban center of the Havre, the 15 of July of the 2005 in the world-wide patrimony of the humanity, giving welcome to the “novel operation of the potential of the concrete”. The space of 133 hectares represents, according to UNESCO “an exceptional example of the architecture of urbanism subsequent to the war” is one of the rare places enrolled in Europe.
The city was decorated with the Legion of Honor the 18 of 1949 July.