Was it a storehouse for salt or for grain? Whatever, this small classical building gives the merchant touch to this square formerly dedicated to selling grain. For centuries, the grain market was held on the place des Halles where the Beauce region raw material was traded.

Illuminated by sowing and harvesting representations and allegories, the walls cast a bright painting inspired as much by the Master of Moulins and the Malouel brothers as by the tempera facades of Seville patios and Tyrolean inns. Stay a while beneath the universal time clock...

Animated fresco of approx. 12 minutes, repeated. Music by Frédéric Ozanne.

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