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The town of Albertville was founded in 1836 following King Charles Albert’s decision to unite the two villages of l’Hôpital and Conflans under the name of ‘Albertville’.

L'Hôtel de ville (Town Hall), neoclassical in style with its extravagant décor, was designed by the architect Eugène Denarié and completed in 1871 after 8 years of construction. Between 1865 and 1876 further building took place: the "sous-préfecture" (- local administrative offices - the first in France), the Law Courts (today La Maison des Jeux Olympiques), St Jean Baptiste Church (neogothic) and train station (the railway was built in 1879). In 1854 the girls' schools in Rue Pargoud were founded and in 1890 the current Lycée Jean Moulin (a scondary school), which in those days was a boys' school was opened.
Large hotels also opened in this ‘stopover’ town: namely the Hôtel Gény in Rue de la

République, which became the Hôtel Royal when Charles Félix came to lay the first stone in the construction of the dyke for the Isère and Arly rivers. In 1889 a theatre opened in Rue Gambetta. Above the entrance is a pediment representing a pelican feeding its young ones (a symbol of devotion and altruism), a hive (a symbol of work) and some pomegranates.
The town’s architecture then hardly changed after the late 19th Century until 1986 when Albertville won the bid to host the XVIth Winter Olympic Games.
In 1985 The present Law Courts were built.
Following the successful bid for the Winter Olympic Games, the Mairie Quarter was completely demolished and replaced by a large square opening onto a vista of the medieval city of Conflans up on the opposite bank of the Arly. This square, named Place de l'Europe was designed by architect Jean-Jacques Morisseau who used materials including concrete and glass. An Italian-style theatre and a media library form the end of this square. The Dôme Theatre, which has a copper dome surmounted by a steeple, has a semicircular seating capacity of 650 with 2 gallery levels. The Dôme media library is 200m² and holds more than 40,000 documents in its documentary section. The backs of the houses encircling this end of the square are decorated in a ‘trompe l’œil’ style.
 
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