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From the medieval Lonja of Valencia to the neoclassical Paris Bourse and the Nordic bourses of Stockholm and Copenhagen, North and Western Europe's exchanges trace the birth of modern finance through centuries of architectural innovation.
| Exchange | City | Country | Established | Style |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akrotiri: Triangle Square and the West House | Akrotiri (Thera / Santorini) | Greece | 17th century BCE | Late Cycladic / Bronze Age Aegean town |
| Forum of Pompeii | Pompeii | Italy | 7th century BC | Roman Forum |
| Port of Piraeus (Deigma) | Piraeus | Greece | 5th century BC | Ancient Greek port complex |
| Roman London Forum-Basilica | London | England | c. 70 AD | Roman Imperial |
| Palermo Arab-Norman Markets | Palermo | Italy | c. 9th century CE | Arab-Norman commercial architecture |
| Venice Rialto Square | Venice | Italy | c. 1097 | Renaissance / Venetian commercial vernacular |
| Stourbridge Fair (Stourbridge Common) and its Leper Chapel | Cambridge | United Kingdom | Chartered 1199; first held 1211 | Romanesque (Norman) |
| Strasbourg Commodity Exchange | Strasbourg | France | Medieval | Renaissance Revival |
| Toulouse Bourse des Marchands | Toulouse | France | 1549 | Neoclassical |
| Steelyard of the Hanseatic League (Stalhof) | London | England | c. 1320 | Medieval / Hanseatic |
| Barcelona Grain Exchange | Barcelona | Spain | 14th century | Gothic |
| Bryggen — Hanseatic Kontor of Bergen (Tyskebryggen) | Bergen | Norway | Kontor established c. 1350; surviving timber buildings rebuilt after the 1702 fire | Hanseatic vernacular timber (northern "fondaco") |
| Merchant Adventurers' Hall | York | England | 1357 | Medieval Timber-Framed |
| Bologna Merchants' Exchange (Palazzo della Mercanzia / Foro dei Mercanti) | Bologna | Italy | 1382-1391 | Italian Gothic (brick-and-stone, with Romanesque-Lombard and classical elements) |
| Llotja de Mar (Barcelona Maritime Exchange) | Barcelona | Spain | 1392 | Gothic interior / Neoclassical exterior |
| Genoa Palazzo San Giorgio (Casa di San Giorgio) | Genoa | Italy | 1407 | Renaissance |
| Fairs of Medina del Campo (Ferias generales del reino de Castilla) | Medina del Campo | Spain | Early 15th century; declared "General Fairs of the Kingdom" c. 1491 | Castilian Renaissance with Mudéjar influence (market hall); arcaded brick Plaza Mayor |
| Lonja of Palma de Mallorca | Mallorca | Spain | 1426 | Late Gothic (Catalan Gothic) |
| Ancona Merchants' Loggia (Loggia dei Mercanti) | Ancona | Italy | Begun 1442; facade 1451-1459 | Adriatic Renaissance / Venetian Florid Gothic, with Mannerist interior |
| Antwerp Stock Exchange (Antwerpse Beurs) | Antwerp | Belgium | 1531 | Gothic |
| Antwerp Old Exchange (Oud Beurs van Antwerpen) | Antwerp | Belgium | 1531 | Late Gothic / Renaissance |
| Lyon Stock Exchange (Bourse de Lyon) | Lyon | France | 1540 | Second Empire |
| Lonja de Zaragoza (La Lonja, the Old Merchants' Exchange) | Zaragoza | Spain | 1541 | Aragonese Renaissance with Mudéjar elements |
| Florence Mercantile Exchange (Loggia del Mercato Nuovo) | Florence | Italy | 1547 | Renaissance |
| Hamburg Stock Exchange (Hamburger Börse) | Hamburg | Germany | 1558 | Neoclassical |
| Royal Exchange | London | England | 1565 | Neoclassical / Roman Corinthian |
| Casa Lonja de Mercaderes (General Archive of the Indies) | Seville | Spain | 1583–1598 (built); merchant guild of the Carrera de Indias | Spanish Renaissance (Herreran / estilo herreriano) |
| Zürich Grain Exchange (Kornhaus) | Zürich | Switzerland | 1616 | Renaissance |
| Copenhagen Børsen | Copenhagen | Denmark | 1619-1640 | Dutch Renaissance |
| Copenhagen Børsen (Børsbygningen) | Copenhagen | Denmark | 1640 | Dutch Renaissance |
| Palais de la Bourse of Nantes (Palais Crucy) | Nantes | France | first bourse 1641; current Palais Crucy designed 1790, completed 1815 | Neoclassical (néo-grec) |
| Old Stock Exchange of Lille (La Vieille Bourse) | Lille | France | 1652–1653 (built); securities exchange opened 1861 | Flemish Renaissance (Spanish Netherlands) |
| Berlin Stock Exchange | Berlin | Germany | 1685 | Neo-Renaissance (1863 building) |
| Rotterdam Stock Exchange (Beurs Rotterdam) | Rotterdam | Netherlands | 1720 | Functionalist / Modernist (pre-war) |
| The Exchange, Bristol (Bristol Exchange) | Bristol | United Kingdom | 1741-1743 | Palladian (Georgian) |
| London Corn Exchange | London | UK | 1747 | Neoclassical, Italianate |
| Bordeaux Stock Exchange (Place de la Bourse) | Bordeaux | France | 1749 | Classical / Louis XV |
| Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Meurthe-et-Moselle (Chambre de commerce, salle de la Bourse), Nancy | Nancy | France | 1754 (exchange function); building 1906-1909 | Art Nouveau (École de Nancy) |
| Trieste Commodity Exchange | Trieste | Italy | 1755 (commodity exchange by Maria Theresa); building 1802—1806 | Neoclassical |
| Paris Bourse de Commerce | Paris | France | 1763 (as Halle aux Blés) | Large dome, frescoes depicting commerce history, originally a grain exchange. |
| Lisbon Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Valores de Lisboa) | Lisbon | Portugal | 1769 | Neoclassical |
| Stockholm Stock Exchange (Börshuset) | Stockholm | Sweden | 1776 | Neoclassical / Gustavian |
| Naples Stock Exchange (Palazzo della Borsa di Napoli) | Naples | Italy | 1778 (founded by royal decree; Palazzo della Borsa built 1894-1899) | Neo-Renaissance (eclectic) |
| The Piece Hall (Halifax Cloth Hall) | Halifax | United Kingdom | 1779 | Georgian neoclassical |
| Belfast Linen Exchange (White Linen Hall) | Belfast | Northern Ireland | 1784 | Georgian |
| Commodity Exchange of Le Havre (Bourse de commerce du Havre) | Le Havre | France | 1784 (first exchange); futures markets from 1871 | Renaissance/Beaux-Arts (1880); reinforced-concrete structural classicism of the Perret reconstruction (1957) |
| Dublin Stock Exchange | Dublin | Ireland | 1793 | Varied |
| London Stock Exchange | London | UK | 1801 | Classical / Modern |
| Rome Stock Exchange (Borsa di Roma) | Rome | Italy | 1802 | Roman Imperial (2nd century AD temple, adapted 19th century) |
| Liverpool Corn Exchange | Liverpool | UK | 1807 | Neoclassical (1808); Modernist (1953–59) |
| Borsa Italiana | Milan | Italy | 1808 | Rationalist |
| Bergen Exchange (Bergen Børs / Børsbygningen i Bergen) | Bergen | Norway | 1813 | Late Neoclassical, rebuilt Neo-Renaissance |
| Oslo Stock Exchange (Oslo Børs) | Oslo | Norway | 1819 | Neoclassical |
| Cork Stock Exchange | Cork | Ireland | 1820 | Traditional Irish |
| Paris Bourse (Palais Brongniart) | Paris | France | 1826 | Neoclassical |
| Munich Stock Exchange (Börse München) | Munich | Germany | 1830 | Wilhelminian Neo-Baroque (Alte Börse); Neo-Renaissance (Künstlerhaus) |
| Madrid Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Madrid) | Madrid | Spain | 1831 | Neoclassical |
| Porto Stock Exchange (Palácio da Bolsa) | Porto | Portugal | 1842 | Neoclassical / Moorish Revival (Arab Room) |
| Edinburgh Stock Exchange | Edinburgh | Scotland | 1844 | Varied |
| Glasgow Stock Exchange | Glasgow | Scotland | 1844 | Venetian Gothic |
| Aberdeen Stock Exchange | Aberdeen | Scotland | 1845 | Traditional Scottish |
| Gothenburg Bourse (Börsen) | Gothenburg | Sweden | 1849 (opened); cornerstone 1844 | Neoclassical (late Empire) |
| Turin Stock Exchange (Borsa di Torino) | Turin | Italy | 1850 | Neoclassical / Piedmontese Baroque |
| Corn Exchange, Nottingham | Nottingham | United Kingdom | 1850 | Italianate |
| Genoa Loggia di Banchi (Loggia della Mercanzia) | Genoa | Italy | 1855 (exchange); loggia built 1589–1595 | Late Renaissance (Mannerist) |
| Geneva Stock Exchange | Geneva | Switzerland | 1857 | Neoclassical |
| Marseille Palais de la Bourse | Marseille | France | 1860s | Second Empire / Renaissance Revival |
| Palais de la Bourse | Marseille | France | 1860 | Second Empire / Neoclassical |
| Mannheim Exchange (Mannheimer Börse / Produktenbörse) | Mannheim | Germany | 1862 | Neo-Baroque |
| Chemnitz Exchange (Chemnitzer Börse) | Chemnitz | Germany | 1862 (Börsenverein); building inaugurated 1867 | Neo-Renaissance (Renaissance Revival) |
| Leeds Corn Exchange | Leeds | UK | 1864 | Victorian |
| Wool Exchange, Bradford | Bradford | United Kingdom | 1864 | Venetian Gothic / Gothic Revival |
| Basel Stock Exchange | Basel | Switzerland | 1866 | Renaissance Revival |
| Vienna Agricultural Products Exchange (Wiener Produktenbörse / Börse für landwirtschaftliche Produkte) | Vienna | Austria | 1869 | Late historicist (French Renaissance / Neo-Baroque) |
| Bremen Cotton Exchange (Bremer Baumwollbörse) | Bremen | Germany | 1872 | Historicist / Gründerzeit |
| Brussels Stock Exchange (Bourse de Bruxelles) | Brussels | Belgium | 1873 | Eclectic |
| Zurich Stock Exchange (SIX Swiss Exchange) | Zurich | Switzerland | 1873 | Modernist |
| Lausanne Stock Exchange | Lausanne | Switzerland | 1873 | Beaux-Arts |
| Doncaster Corn Exchange | Doncaster | UK | 1873 | Neoclassical / Victorian Classical |
| Cambridge Corn Exchange | Cambridge | UK | 1875 | Florentine Gothic |
| Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Börse) | Vienna | Austria | 1877 | Neoclassical |
| Zurich Stock Exchange (original) (Börsenstrasse) | Zurich | Switzerland | 1877 | Neo-Renaissance |
| Dundee Stock Exchange | Dundee | Scotland | 1879 | Traditional Scottish |
| Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse) | Frankfurt | Germany | 1879 | Renaissance Revival |
| Alte Handelsbörse (Old Trade Exchange) | Leipzig | Germany | 1884 | Baroque (Dutch-Italian) |
| Bern Stock Exchange (Berner Börse) | Bern | Switzerland | 1884 | Swiss Eclectic / Neo-Renaissance |
| Genoa Grain Exchange | Genoa | Italy | 1886 | Eclectic |
| Coal Exchange (Coal and Shipping Exchange) | Cardiff | United Kingdom | 1884–1888 | French Renaissance Revival |
| Bilbao Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Bilbao) | Bilbao | Spain | 1890 | Eclectic / Modernismo with Baroque Revival |
| Manchester Corn Exchange | Manchester | UK | 1897 | Victorian |
| Ghent Stock Exchange / Handelsbeurs (Handelsbeurs van Gent) | Ghent | Belgium | 1900 | Rococo (core); eclectic remodelling |
| Amsterdam Stock Exchange (Beurs van Berlage) | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 1602 | Early 20th-century Dutch |
| Edinburgh Corn Exchange | Edinburgh | Scotland | 1909 | Scots Jacobean |
| Helsinki Stock Exchange (Helsingin Pörssi) | Helsinki | Finland | 1912 | National Romantic / Art Nouveau |
| Iceland Stock Exchange (Kauphöll Íslands / Nasdaq Iceland) | Reykjavík | Iceland | Modern | Modern glass-curtain-wall commercial |
| Canary Wharf Financial District | London | United Kingdom | 1991 | Postmodern / Late Modern |
| Zurich Stock Exchange (current) / SIX Swiss Exchange | Zurich | Switzerland | 1995 | Late Modernist / Corporate Contemporary |
| LSE Data Center (Basildon) | Basildon | UK | 2011 | Electronic / Data Center |
| Bourse at Bruges | Bruges | Belgium | 1285 | |
| Lonja de Valencia | Valencia | Spain | 1483 | |
| Champagne Fairs (Foires de Champagne) | Troyes | France | c. 1150 | Medieval |
| Bourse des Marchands (Palais des Consuls) | Rouen | France | 1556 | Classical |
| Fondaco dei Tedeschi | Venice | Italy | 1228 | Renaissance |
| Banco Rosso (Red Bank) | Venice | Italy | 1516 | Medieval |