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Marais

The Marais 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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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: neighborhood of Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Le Marais” and “The Marais”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Musée Picasso and Centre Georges Pompidou.

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

Arts center
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.

Church
Photo: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the , in the , France.

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.

Suburb
Photo: Mbzt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les Halles was 's central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973 and was replaced by an underground shopping centre and a park. The unpopular modernist development was demolished yet again in 2010, and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern shopping mall built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.

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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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Marais” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Le Marais”
  • Arabic: “حي ماريه”
  • Azerbaijani: “Le Mare”
  • Basque: “Le Marais”
  • Belarusian: “Марэ”
  • Bulgarian: “Льо Маре”
  • Bulgarian: “Маре”
  • Catalan: “Le Marais”
  • 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 لومره”
  • 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”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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