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Top 5 highlights in Hue

1. Imperial City

2. Thien Mu Pagoda

3. Royal Tombs

4. Traditional Garden Houses

5. Phuoc Tich Ancient Village

Top 5 handicrafts

1. Conical Hat (Phu Cam village)

2. Incense (Thuy Xuan village)

3. Forge village (Hien Luong village)

4. Copper casting village Phuong Duc)

5. Jeweler village (Ke Mon village)

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Hue 1930 The mansion at 5 Le Loi opened as an addition

to the residence of the colonial French Resident

Superieure. This period was the hey-dey of art deco

school design. No corner of the globe was beyond the

bounds of this popular movement.

While art deco fever was especially acute in Hanoi and

Saigon, Hue was not immune. The colonial authorities

built the Cercle Sportif, a leisure club that still stands on

the south bank of the Perfume River. And they

commissioned a grand colonial mansion, anchored by a

rotunda and flanked by swept wings. The building's

bowed facade, its long horizontal lines and such nautical

flourishes as porthole windows are hallmarks of the

Streamline Modern School of art deco architecture.

In the 1930s, Le Loi Street was known as rue Jules Ferry,

thus named for a 19th Century French prime minister

and imperialist. During the Nguyen Dynasty, the

imperial navy governed the land along the river, from

the present-day railway station to the Stone Bridge (Dap

Da) 2.5 kilometers downstream. When the French

assumed control of Hue in the 1880s, they ceded the

northern bank of the Perfume River to the Vietnamese

and redeveloped the south bank as their “New City”.

Between the 1906-built railway station, which was then a

terminus of the Hue - Danang line, to the Stone Bridge

just beyond the 1963-built Huong Giang hotel, the

French built Hue's most profound colonial structures.

The Resident Superieure lived in a grand colonial

mansion at present-day 6 Le Loi, though that relic was

razed in 1995 to make way for the existing children's

center. Just up from the Resident's mansion was Quoc

Hoc high school founded in 1896 and renowned as

incubator of such great nationalists as General Vo

Nguyen Giap, Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and Ho

Chi Minh, who studied here briefly before he embarked

on his legendary revolutionary career.

South of rule Jules Ferry was an expansive French

neighborhood, where several hundred colonial families

lived throughout the 1930s when the French

protectorates of Annam and Tonkin and the colony of

CochinChina appeared to be an “oasis of peace and

beauty”, as one National Geographic correspondent

wrote as the time.

The historical record is thin on doings as 5 Le Loi

throughout its early years. In 1927, the People's

Assembly was built at 3 Le Loi. From 1935 to 1940, the

mansion played host to periodic trade fairs, organized

by the colonial authorities, that showcased products

made by local craftsmen. In its day, this commercial fair

was renowned throughout central Vietnam.

No doubt, the Resident hosted official delegations here.

Bao Dai, the last emperor of Vietnam, was reputed to

have stayed in a first floor room during one of his last

visits to Hue. In 2006, a Thai photographer shot the

renovated mansion for a coffee table book about the life

of King Bhumipol, who reportedly stayed in the

mansion sometime in the 1950s.

During the uncertain years between the end of World War

II and the emergence of Ngo Dinh Diem in the mid-1950s,

the French struggled against Vietnamese nationalists in

the First Indochina War. Bao Dai who had abdicated in

Hue to the government of Ho Chi Minh in 1945, played a

ceremonial leadership role during these years. In 1949, the

governor's office was located at 5 Le Loi.

After the Geneva Accords partitioned Vietnam in 1954,

the South Vietnamese government of Ngo Dinh Diem

requisitioned the mansion as headquarters of an

administration that served as a bridge between the

national government and the provincial authorities,

Diem was from Hue. His brother, Ngo Dinh Can, was

the city's strongman. No doubt, the Ngos footfalls trod

the corridors of the historic old maison.

After the downfall of the Ngos in 1963, the last head of

the governmental delegation abandoned the building to

its former purpose as a government guest house. As the

Hue city nexus for South Vietnamese officials, the

mansion was setting for intrigue and subterfuge

throughout the war and a priority target for soldiers of

the National Liberation Front, known as the Viet Cong.

At Tet in 1968, the civilian deputy to the military

governor of Da Nang and his family occupied several

rooms on the second floor of the mansion. At midnight,

the fanfare of new year's revelry merged into the

raucous gambit of the assault on Hue by the NLF and

North Vietnamese Army. The civilian deputy stood on

the upper terraces of the guest house, watching the red

and green tracers streak through the night sky.

At five o'clock that morning, soldiers of the NLF and

NVA infiltrated the guest house and captured the

deputy, who turned out to be the highest-ranking

official of South Vietnam to be captured during the

war. Later, the official's son, Nguyen Qui Duc, wrote a

memoir, where the Ashes Are, that begins at Tet, 1968,

in the mansion at 5 Le Loi.

Duc describes the mansion's arched corridors,

porthole windows, heavy armchairs, gardens and

views. During the first few days of the Tet Offensive in

1968, the NLF and NVA employed the guest house as a

temporary holding center.

“A disheveled Frenchman of about thirty entered the

area barefooted, a trench coat thrown on over his

pajamas,” Duc writes. “Hands clasped together, he

tried to explain his situation to two Viet Cong

soldiers. 'De Gaulle, Ho Chi Minh, amis', he kept

saying.”

After the war, the Provincial People Committee

acquired the property. For years after 1975, while

Vietnam suffered the privations of an embargoed

economy, the mansion remained only a place to

receive PPC's high rank officers who come from all

over Vietnam for their business trips.

That all changed in the early 2000s, when the

Provincial People Committee appointed Huong Giang

Tourist Company as a shareholder with Apple Tree

Group to redeveloped the property as La Residence

Hotel & Spa. Apple Tree commissioned the

construction of two amex that were built as faithful

reinterpretation of the original mansion. A renowned

designer, who specialized in colonial aesthetics, re-

imagined the interiors with jazzy panache.

On 17 August 2011 – Eight decades after French

architects imagined an exquisite mansion in the heart

of Vietnam, their vision is now fulfilled as La

Residence Hue Hotel and Spa joins the elite MGallery

Collection – a collection of memorable and unique

hotels by Accor

Travel desk / Concierge

La Residence Corporate Social Responsibility.

We are proud to announce the Smile Group is now

supported by La Residence & Accor.

Every child has a right to be cared for, nurtured

and protected yet sadly in Vietnam the children affected

with HIV/AIDS are often victims of poverty and are denied

an opportunity of education, basic nutrition and,

all too often, a safe place to call home.

We need your help to put

SMILES on the FACES of the children of Vietnam.

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Royal Gala Dinner in the old Theatre of the Imperial City

Hue Traditional Food

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Bun Bo Hue (Hue style Beef Rice Noodle Soup with Lemongrass)

Ingredients

150gr Minced pork

150 gr Crab meat

300 gr Pork leg, cut in 1cm stripes

100 gr Beef tenderloin, cut in thin slices

50 gr Lemongrass, whole

150 gr Rice noodle

½ teaspoon Shrimp paste

300 ml Chicken stock

Pinch Salt, pepper, sugar, fish sauce, onion,

oil, chili.

120 gr Banana flower, lettuce, bean curd,

fragrant parsley.

Preparation

Cut the pork leg in stripes of approx. 1cm length.

Mix the crab meat and minced pork, season with salt

and pepper and form them into small balls (Tumb size)

Heat the chicken stock, add shrimp paste, lemongrass,

salt, sugar and pepper and simmer for 5 minutes. Add

the pork strips and simmer until well cooked. Add the

beef stripes and turn off the heat.

Place the cold rice noodle in a bowl, garnish with the

meat and pour the hot stock over the dish. Sprinkle some

chopped spring onions or coriander as your desire.

Serve with banana flower, lettuce, bean curd and

fragrant parsley on the side.

For more information, minimum amount of guests

and prices to book following

- Royal Gala

- Cooking Class

Please contact reception or

resa@la-residence-hue.com

Tel: (84) (54) 3 837 475

- Bicycle Tour

Dinner

Dinner Cruise /

A river runs through the heart of Hue, inspiring

wonder, compelling you upstream. On the first leg of

your journey, a cyclo ferries you to the Noon Gate of

the Imperial City, where you marvel at the ambitions

of the Nguyen Emperors, and their grandiose

designs. Their palaces, temples and galleries evoke a

world that feels partly real but mostly fantastic.

Further upstream, your sense of wonder deepens at

the foot of one of Vietnam’s most iconic monuments,

the tower at Thien Mu Pagoda. Now you’re

wondering whether you haven’t stumbled into the

dream-world of an East Asian landscape painting. At

the tomb of Emperor Minh Mang, you’re sure of it,

here among pavilions, stelae, courtyards, gates,

ponds and gardens. Your appetite is sated… but not

yet, not quite.

Back at the art-deco splendor of La Résidence, there is

a Kir Royal apéritif to be had on the hotel’s terrace.

And then, as evening falls over the tranquil Perfume

River, you sit down amidst frangipani and silk-cotton

trees for a repast inspired by colonial-era traditions.

You delight in each flavor, as privileged by this

singular culinary experience as the Emperors of Old

Hue

A TASTE OF HUE...

Depart from the hotel in a traditional Cyclo

accompanied by one of our Vietnamese Chefs; pass

through the streets of Hue and exeperience first

hand the journey to Ben Ngu Market. Experience the

unique variety of the local fresh food produce and

the ancient tradition of the Vietnamese morning

market.

Allow our Chef to share with you his culinary

experience and variety of Vietnamese cuisine. We

will guide your hand into creating some of the most

traditional family dishes influenced by Hue’s

gastronomic history.

Experience Hue Royal Dinner as Mandarins at the

ancient theatre of Citadel - Duyet Thi Duong. Our

team will make sure you have a memorable moment

with cosy atmosphere, scrumptious royal cuisine

and unique music performance from Hue artisans

HOTEL FACILITIES/SERVICE

The first high end spa in Hue inspired by the Art

Deco aesthetic including original stained glass

design invites you to take a journey to serenity. Le

Spa indulges 380 square meters and offers a global

selection of revitalizing treatments in seven

relaxation rooms.

Open 24 hours a day, there is free of charge cable

Internet available as well as some interesting books

you can borrow during your stay at La Residence.

For advanced users there is wireless access all

around the hotel including guest rooms.

Still energetic after your city tour in Hue? Try our

Fitness Center in the top floor with a panoramic

view of the Perfume River or relax in our unique

salt water swimming pool. Our tennis court is also

available upon request.

Located at our Hotel's lobby, La Galerie is a cozy

corner where several artists from different nationals

display their craft. It is a place for relaxation and

appreciation of some very distinctive art. You are

invited to take as much time as you like to browse.

Complimentary bikes are available upon request.

Please contact the Front Office to get a map and

discover the main attractions of Hue City.

The old black and white prints

Directrice: Nathalie Féra

e-mail: n.fera@photofactory.fr

Tel: (+33) (0)1 53 01 93 93

Fax: (+33) (0)1 40 27 98 08

Web: www.laphotofactory.fr

Upcoming Special events in Hue

The 7th Hue Festival 2012 will take place in Thua

Thien Hue Province from April 7th to 15th, 2012

Accordingly, under the title “Cultural heritage-

Integration and development-rendezvous of historical

cities”, the festival will be a spotlight of the National

Tourism Year 2012 hosted by the Province.

Besides annual traditional festivals, the organisers will

also hold a new festival to preserve and promote Hue

cultural heritage values.

GASTRONOMY

1976 Nguyen The Hau (Guest House)

1989 Tran Van Lu (Le Loi Hotel Company)

1995 Dang Thi Anh Thu (5 Le Loi Hotel)

2004 Nicolas Josi (La Residence Hotel&Spa)

2006 Carmen Marienberg (La Residence Hotel&Spa)

2010 Craig Douglas (La Residence Hotel&Spa)

2011 Anthony Gill (La Residence Hotel&Spa)

2011 Conde Nast Reader’s Choice

“Top 20 Asian Resorts”

Sport facilities

Discover Hue by Bicycle

A Memorable Moment

...truly one of a kind ...Le Spa Experience

Cooking Class

La Residence Colonial dinner