Place Stanislas

Place Stanislas is a place belonging to an urban standard located in Nancy, in Lorraine, France, which is a World Heritage by UNESCO.
Desired by the duke of Lorraine Stanislaw Leszczynski, was built between 1751 and 1755 under the direction of the architect Emmanuel Hera.
Its name and central statue has evolved with changes in the history of France and it has this name since 1831.

Familiarly called by apocope place Stan, is often described as "most beautiful place in the world" by the inhabitants.
Although beautifully proportioned (106 meters 124 meters), these dimensions remain modest compared with 12 hectares of French record of the place of Quinconces in Bordeaux and at the same Nancy, instead of the career or course Leopold, for example, are larger.
These are not the dimensions that make the originality of the Place Stanislas, but its development and its role in the planning of the city, connecting two formerly separate districts.
The architecture and monuments are more typical of a modern capital city as a single province.
Urban planning and a consistent architectural says the continuing power of the Duke of Lorraine, which has still many independent institutions.