Bordeaux - Place de la Bourse

Moon over the Place de la Bourse.
The place was created between 1730 and 1755, after the medieval city walls got teared down. Up to the Revolution the place´s name was "Place Royale" and a statue of Louis XV stood in the center. The name then changed to "Place de la Liberté" and the statue got replaced by a liberty pole. Under Napoleon I this was the "Place Impériale". Since 1869 the "Fontaine des Trois Grâces" (Fountain of the three Graces) is installed in the center.