The Presidential Palace of Vietnam located in the city of Hanoi, was built between 1900 and 1906 to house the French Governor-General of Indochina.
Vietnamese: Phủ Chủ Tịch.
The yellow palace stands behind wrought iron gates flanked by sentry boxes. It incorporates elements of Italian Renaissance design, including:
• aedicules
• a formal piano nobile reached by a grand staircase
• broken pediments
• classical columns
• quoins