Hôtel de ville de Perpignan, Town hall in Perpignan, France

The Hôtel de Ville stands at 8 place de la Loge, next to the former courthouse. Its main facade mixes pale ashlar stone with rows of rounded cobblestones set in brick, a feature of Catalan building; two round-arched openings with wrought-iron grilles date from 1710. A clock marked "Mairie de Perpignan" hangs on an iron bracket beneath a small tiled canopy, and three bronze hands are fixed below the first-floor windows.

A communal house or loge existed from the 13th century. The present building was commissioned by the five consuls and authorised by King Sancho of Majorca, built in ashlar stone and completed in 1318 on the Place de la Loge. The courtyard and its portico date from the 16th century under Charles V, two large east-wing halls were built between 1591 and 1605, and the main facade was heavily reworked in the early 20th century, with the section between the Loge de Mer and the town hall rebuilt in 1951.

The wedding hall displays a Spanish-Moorish ceiling from the early 1500s alongside 19th-century neoclassical details. These design layers show how the building absorbed different artistic styles across centuries.

The building sits at Place de la Loge in the city center and is easy to reach on foot. Certain areas welcome visitors while other sections function as working administrative offices.

The courtyard holds Aristide Maillol's sculpture "the Mediterranean", a seated female figure on a pedestal, installed in 1905. It is not a fountain: the work stands as a statue in the patio at the centre of the building. Look for the bronze hands on the facade, which recall the three social orders that supplied the consuls.