Latin Quarter
The Latin Quarter of Paris is a district in Paris on the left bank of the Seine, around the Sorbonne. Located in the city's 5th and the 6th arrondissements, it is known for its concentration of universities.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Square
- Description: urban university campus in Paris, France
- Also known as: “Latin Quarter, Paris”, “Quartier latin”, and “Quartier Latin”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Musée national du Moyen Âge and Collège de France.
Musée national du Moyen Âge
Museum
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The Musée de Cluny, officially Musée de Cluny-Musée National du Moyen Âge, is a museum of medieval art in Paris. It is located in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, bordered by square Samuel-Paty to the south, boulevard Saint-Michel to the west, boulevard Saint-Germain to the north, and rue Saint-Jacques to the east.
Collège de France
University
Photo: Celette, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Collège de France, founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. Collège de France is situated 230 metres southeast of Latin Quarter.
Notre Dame de Paris
Church
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Notre-Dame de Paris, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. Notre Dame de Paris is situated 510 metres northeast of Latin Quarter.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include 5th arrondissement and Left Bank.
5th arrondissement
Photo: K’m, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The 5th Arrondissement of Paris is one of the best known of the city's central districts, located on the Left Bank of the river Seine. Also commonly known as the "Latin Quarter" because the first great Parisian university, the Sorbonne, was founded here and Latin was the language the medieval period students used once to speak.
Left Bank
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
The Left Bank in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the French capital city of Paris. The Left Bank defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…
Latin Quarter
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Latin Quarter” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Quartier Latin”
- Arabic: “الحي اللاتيني”
- Asturian: “barriu llatín de París”
- Asturian: “barriu llatino de París”
- Azerbaijani: “Latın məhəlləsi”
- Basque: “Auzo Latinoa”
- Basque: “Latin auzoa”
- Basque: “Latindar auzoa”
- Belarusian: “Лацінскі квартал”
- Catalan: “Barri Llatí de París”
- Chinese: “拉丁区”
- Chinese: “拉丁區”
- Czech: “Latinská čtvrť”
- Czech: “Quartier latin”
- Danish: “Latinerkvarteret”
- Danish: “Quartier Latin”
- Dutch: “Quartier Latin”
- Esperanto: “Latina Kvartalo”
- Esperanto: “Quartier latin”
- Estonian: “Ladina kvartal”
- Finnish: “Latinalaiskortteli”
- Finnish: “Quartier latin”
- French: “Quartier latin de Paris”
- French: “quartier latin”
- French: “Quartier latin”
- German: “Quartier Latin”
- Greek: “Καρτιέ Λατέν”
- Hebrew: “הרובע הלטיני בפריז”
- Hebrew: “הרובע הלטיני”
- Hungarian: “Quartier Latin”
- Indonesian: “Latin Quarter”
- Irish: “Quartier Latin”
- Italian: “Quartiere latino”
- Japanese: “カルチェ・ラタン”
- Japanese: “カルチエ・ラタン”
- Japanese: “カルチェラタン”
- Japanese: “カルチエラタン”
- Japanese: “カルティエ・ラタン”
- Japanese: “ラテン区”
- Korean: “라탱 지구”
- Korean: “라틴 지구”
- Korean: “카르체 라탄”
- Korean: “카르티에 라탱”
- Korean: “카르티에라탱”
- Latin: “Vicus Latinus”
- Lithuanian: “Lotynų kvartalas”
- Luxembourgish: “Quartier latin”
- Malay: “Latin Quarter, Paris”
- Malay: “Latin Quarter”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Latinerkvarteret”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Latinarkvarteret”
- Norwegian: “Latinerkvarteret”
- Papiamento: “Quartier latin”
- Persian: “کارتیه لاتن”
- Persian: “محله لاتن”
- Persian: “محلهٔ لاتن”
- Persian: “محله لاتین”
- Polish: “Dzielnica Łacińska”
- Portuguese: “Quarteirão latino”
- Portuguese: “Quartier Latin”
- Romanian: “Cartierul Latin”
- Romanian: “Quartier latin”
- Romanian: “Quartier Latin”
- Russian: “Латинский квартал”
- Spanish: “Barrio latino de paris”
- Spanish: “Barrio Latino de París”
- Spanish: “Barrio Latino”
- Spanish: “Quartier Latin”
- Swedish: “Quartier Latin”
- Turkish: “Quartier Latin”
- Ukrainian: “Латинський квартал”
- Vietnamese: “Khu phố La Tinh”
- Vietnamese: “Khu phố Latin”
- Vietnamese: “Khu phố Latinh”
- Vietnamese: “Quận La Tinh”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Latin”
- Vietnamese: “Quartier Latin”
- Welsh: “Quartier latin”
- Yue Chinese: “拉丁區”
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