The Saigon Governor's Palace, also known as the Norodom Palace and then renamed Independence Palace, was a government building in Saigon, French Cochinchina, built between 1868 and 1873.
The Governor's Palace in Saigon, 1873
The palace in 1896
The palace being lit up in the evening in 1922
The Independence Palace, also publicly known as the Reunification Convention Hall, is a landmark in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was designed by architect Ngô Viết Thụ and was the home and workplace of the president of the Republic of Vietnam. It was the site of the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975 that ended the Vietnam War, when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through its gates.
View of the palace in 2019
Independence Palace in 1967
President's Office in the Hall
The old war room underneath the palace