HCMC Individuals’s Committee workplace constructing in District 1. Photograph by VnExpress/Quynh Tran
The headquarters of the Individuals’s Council and Individuals’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis – a French colonial heritage web site – will open its doorways to guests for excursions freed from cost this yr.
In keeping with the newly-issued plan by the municipal Individuals’s Committee, the positioning may have common openings on the final two weekends of every month ranging from Feb. 24-25.
The transfer is anticipated to assist folks perceive town’s historical past of formation and improvement, and contribute to constructing and growing its model, and its picture of a pleasant administration.
The plan additionally goals to survey the path of growing distinctive and attribute tourism merchandise related to town’s tradition and historical past, contributing to attracting home and international vacationers to town.
The constructing at 86 Le Thanh Ton Road in District 1 was designed by French architect Femand Gardes. Its building began in 1889 and completed in 1909.
In 2020 the Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism acknowledged it as a nationwide architectural relic.
In entrance of it’s Nguyen Hue Road with its pedestrian sq., which is all the time crowded throughout holidays.
Home and international vacationers are allowed to go to a part of the relic, together with the primary foyer, worldwide reception room No.1, and primary staircase on the bottom ground, in addition to the primary foyer, worldwide reception rooms No.2 and No.3, balcony, and assembly room No.5 on the primary ground.
On April 29-30 final yr, the headquarters had been opened to guests for the primary time, welcoming over 50 delegations with practically 1,500 home and international guests, on the event of the forty eighth anniversary of the nationwide reunification (April 30) and Worldwide Might Day (Might 1).
Different openings had been on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, Oct. 28-29, Nov. 25-26, and Dec. 30-31, attracting hundreds of home and international guests.