France
Île-de-France
Paris

Place des Vosges

The Place des Vosges, originally the Place Royale, is the oldest planned square in Paris, just before the . It is located in the district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the and arrondissements.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: square in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “place des Vosges”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ruins of Bastille and Victor Hugo’s House.

Castle
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The Bastille was a medieval fortress in , known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France.

Museum
Photo: Frédérique PANASSAC, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Maison de Victor Hugo is a writer's house museum located in the , where Victor Hugo lived for 16 years between 1832 and 1848.

Church
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, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the , in the , France.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Marais and 4th arrondissement.

Suburb
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The is a historic district in , . It spreads across parts of the and arrondissements on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the .

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The 4th is a good chunk of what used to be medieval Paris, and you'll find a lot left from that time on both islands and in the narrow streets of the lower Marais.

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A quieter part of the ancient Marais neighbourhood which is centred in the , the 3rd is possibly one of the best places to live in . There are several good open air markets and lots of great local designer clothing stores.

Place des Vosges

Latitude
48.85564° or 48° 51′ 20″ north
Longitude
2.36554° or 2° 21′ 56″ east
Elevation
40 metres (131 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V948+76
Geo­Names ID
6295668
Wiki­data ID
Q898629
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Place des Vosges” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Place des Vosges”
  • Arabic: “ساحة فوج”
  • Azerbaijani: “Vogezlər meydanı”
  • Basque: “Vosges plaza”
  • Belarusian: “Плошча Вагезаў”
  • Bosnian: “Place des Vosges”
  • Bulgarian: “Плас де Вож”
  • Bulgarian: “Площад де Вож”
  • Catalan: “place des Vosges”
  • Catalan: “Place des Vosges”
  • Cebuano: “Place des Vosges”
  • Chinese: “孚日广场”
  • Chinese: “孚日廣場”
  • Croatian: “Place des Vosges”
  • Czech: “Place des Vosges”
  • Danish: “Place des Vosges”
  • Dutch: “place des Vosges”
  • Dutch: “Place des Vosges”
  • Dutch: “place Royale”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان فوج”
  • Esperanto: “Place des Vosges”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de la Vogezoj”
  • Finnish: “Place des Vosges”
  • French: “place des Vosges, Paris”
  • French: “place des Vosges”
  • French: “Place des Vosges”
  • French: “Place Royale” (historical)
  • Georgian: “ვოგეზთა მოედანი”
  • German: “Place des Vosges”
  • German: “Platz der Vogesen”
  • Greek: “Πλατεία των Βοσγίων”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר ווז‘”
  • Hebrew: “פלאס דה ווז‘”
  • Hebrew: “פלאס דה ווז’”
  • Hebrew: “פלאס דה ווז”
  • Hebrew: “פלס דה ווז‘”
  • Hungarian: “place des Vosges”
  • Hungarian: “Place des Vosges”
  • Indonesian: “Place des Vosges”
  • Italian: “place des Vosges”
  • Italian: “Place des Vosges”
  • Japanese: “ヴォージュ広場”
  • Japanese: “プラース・ド・ヴォージュ”
  • Korean: “보주 광장”
  • Malay: “Place des Vosges”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “place des Vosges”
  • Norwegian: “Place des Vosges”
  • Polish: “Place des Vosges”
  • Portuguese: “Place des Vosges”
  • Russian: “Королевская площадь”
  • Russian: “Площадь Вогезов”
  • Russian: “Пляс вож”
  • Slovak: “Place des Vosges”
  • Slovenian: “place des Vosges”
  • Spanish: “Place des Vosges”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de los Vosgos”
  • Swedish: “Place des Vosges”
  • Turkish: “place des Vosges”
  • Turkish: “Vosges Meydanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Площа Вогезів”
  • Urdu: “دے ووژ چوک”
  • “place des Vosges”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Bastille and Saint Antoine.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Place du Marché-Sainte-Catherine and Couvent Sainte-Catherine-du-Val-des-Écoliers.

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