Marais

The Marais is a historic district in , . It spreads across parts of the and arrondissements on the , or Right Bank, of the .
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: historic district in central Paris, in the 3rd and 4th arrondissements
  • Also known as: “Le Marais” and “The Marais”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée Picasso Paris and Centre Georges Pompidou.

Museum
Photo: GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé on the Rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of , , dedicated to the work of the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

Museum
Photo: Zairon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in , France.

Government office
Photo: Archives nationales (France), CC BY-SA 3.0.
The are the national archives of France. They preserve the archives of the French state, apart from the archives of the Ministry of Armed Forces and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as these two ministries have their own archive services, the Defence Historical Service and Diplomatic Archives respectively.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 3rd arrondissement and 4th arrondissement.

Photo: Pol, Public domain.
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.

Photo: Björn Söderqvist, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Marais

Latitude
48.86038° or 48° 51′ 37″ north
Longitude
2.36074° or 2° 21′ 39″ east
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V966+57
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1863573689
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6457257
Wiki­data ID
Q749573
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Marais” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Le Marais”
  • Arabic: “حي ماريه”
  • Azerbaijani: “Le Mare”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mare məhəlləsi”
  • Basque: “Le Marais”
  • Belarusian: “Марэ”
  • Bulgarian: “Льо Маре”
  • Bulgarian: “Маре”
  • Catalan: “Le Marais”
  • Chinese: “玛莱”
  • Chinese: “玛莱区”
  • Chinese: “瑪萊區”
  • Czech: “Le Marais”
  • Czech: “Quartier Marais”
  • Dutch: “Le Marais”
  • Dutch: “Marais”
  • Dutch: “Quartier du Marais”
  • Esperanto: “Le Marais”
  • Esperanto: “Marais”
  • Finnish: “Le Marais”
  • French: “Le Marais”
  • French: “Marais”
  • French: “quartier du Marais”
  • Georgian: “მარე”
  • German: “Marais”
  • German: “Quartier du Marais”
  • Greek: “Λε Μαραί”
  • Hebrew: “המארה”
  • Hungarian: “Le Marais”
  • Hungarian: “Marais”
  • Indonesian: “Le Marais”
  • Irish: “Le Marais”
  • Italian: “Le Marais”
  • Italian: “Marais”
  • Japanese: “マレー地区”
  • Japanese: “マレ地区”
  • Japanese: “ル・マレ”
  • Korean: “마레”
  • Malay: “Le Marais”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Le Marais”
  • Norwegian: “Le Marais”
  • Persian: “لو مری”
  • Persian: “لو مَرِی”
  • Persian: “لومری”
  • Persian: “محله لو ماره”
  • Persian: “محله لومری”
  • Persian: “محلهٔ لومری”
  • Polish: “Le Marais”
  • Portuguese: “Le Marais”
  • Portuguese: “Marais”
  • Russian: “Маре”
  • Slovak: “Le Marais”
  • Spanish: “Le Marais”
  • Spanish: “Marais”
  • Swedish: “Le Marais”
  • Swedish: “Marais”
  • Turkish: “Le Marais”
  • Ukrainian: “Маре”
  • Vietnamese: “Le Marais”
  • “Le Marais”
  • “quartier du Marais”

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