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The current administrative centre of the City of Bastia is located on the former site of an Art Nouveau palace destroyed by bombings during the Second World War.

This was the seat of the Cyrnos Palace, designed by Simon-Jean Fratacci, an architect from Bastia, and built from 1909 to 1911. That Art Nouveau glamorous building was inspired by the palaces of the Côte d’Azur. The hotel had sixty rooms, with modern comfort. Designed from the start to be entirely lighted with electricity, it had a lift, bathrooms and hydrotherapy, and central heating. In the 1930’s after a change in management, the building was called Imperial Palace. It was damaged by the bombings in 1943 and the owners decided to pull it down. After the war, the owners decided to build an ultramodern luxury hotel there. The building was to be named L’Impérial. It was designed by the famous architect Gaston Castel, who designed the Opera of Marseilles. The plans started being carried into effect some ten years later, then the building site was stopped. The building was bought by the state and finished in 1970. The prefect’s services for the Haute Corse were placed there. The building was then completed by "a roof villa" on the top. That 5th floor was to lodge the prefect’s offices. In 1981, the building was handed over to the municipality of Bastia, who turned it into the City Hall (Administrative centre) in 1981.

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