Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
The Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Catholic parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris. It was originally the church of a Benedictine abbey founded in 558 by Childebert I, the son of Clovis, King of the Franks.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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- Type: Church
- Description: abbey located in Paris, in France
- Also known as: “Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Pres”, “Royal abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés”, and “Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sciences Po and Orsay Museum.
Sciences Po
College
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Sciences Po or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies, is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of grande école and the legal status of grand établissement. Sciences Po is situated 400 metres west of Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Orsay Museum
Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. Orsay Museum is situated 1 km northwest of Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Musée national Eugène Delacroix
Museum
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The Musée national Eugène Delacroix, also simply the Musée Delacroix, is an art museum dedicated to painter Eugène Delacroix and located in the 6th arrondissement at 6, rue de Furstemberg, Paris, France. Musée national Eugène Delacroix is situated 100 metres northeast of Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Germain-des-Prés and 6th arrondissement.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Quarter
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Saint-Germain-des-Prés is one of the four administrative quarters of the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France, located around the church of the former Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
6th arrondissement
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As with Paris itself, the 6th Arrondissement is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…
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…
Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
- Categories: Royal abbey and religion
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Սեն Ժերմեն դե Պրե”
- Armenian: “Սեն Ժերմեն դը Պրե”
- Azerbaijani: “Sen-Jermen-de-Pre”
- Basque: “Saint-Germain-des-Présko abadetxea”
- Basque: “Saint-Germain-des-Présko abadia”
- Belarusian: “Сен-Жэрмэн-дэ-Прэ”
- Belarusian: “Сэн-Жэрмэн-дэ-Прэ”
- Bulgarian: “Сен Жермен де Пре”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Saint-Germain des Prés”
- Catalan: “abadia de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Catalan: “Abadia de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Saint-Germain des Prés”
- Catalan: “Monestir de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Catalan: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Chinese: “圣日耳曼德佩修道院”
- Chinese: “圣日耳曼德普雷修道院”
- Chinese: “聖日耳曼德佩修道院”
- Czech: “Klášter Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Czech: “Kostel Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Czech: “Opatství Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Czech: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Dutch: “Église Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Dutch: “Koninklijke abdij van Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Dutch: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés (kerk)”
- Esperanto: “Abatejo Saint-Germain-des-Pres”
- Esperanto: “Abatejo Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Finnish: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés’n luostari”
- French: “abbaye de Saint Germain des Prés”
- French: “Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- French: “abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Près”
- French: “abbaye Royale de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- French: “abbaye Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Galician: “abadía de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Georgian: “სენ-ჟერმენ-დე-პრე”
- German: “Abtei Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- German: “Saint-Germain-de-Pres”
- German: “St. Germain-des-Pres”
- Greek: “Αββαείο του Σαιν-Ζερμαίν-ντε-Πρε”
- Greek: “Εκκλησία Σαιν-Ζερμαίν-ντε-Πρε”
- Hebrew: “כנסיית סן ג’רמן דה פרה”
- Hebrew: “כנסיית סן ז’רמן דה פרה”
- Hebrew: “סן ז’רמן דה פרה”
- Hungarian: “saint-germain-des-prés-i apátság”
- Indonesian: “Biara Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Italian: “abbazia di Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Italian: “Abbazia di Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Japanese: “サン・ジェルマン・デ・プレ修道院”
- Japanese: “サン＝ジェルマン＝デ＝プレ修道院”
- Japanese: “サン＝ジェルマン＝デ＝プレ教会”
- Korean: “생제르맹데프레 교회”
- Korean: “생제르맹데프레 수도원”
- Latin: “Abbatia Sancti Germani a Pratis”
- Latin: “Abbatia Sancti Germani de pratis”
- Lithuanian: “Paryžiaus Sen Žermen de Prė abatija”
- Luxembourgish: “Abtei Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Luxembourgish: “Abteikierch Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Malay: “Biara Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Malay: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés (biara)”
- Maltese: “Abbazija ta‘ Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Norwegian: “Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Piemontese: “San German dij Pra”
- Piemontese: “San German ëd Pres”
- Polish: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés (opactwo)”
- Polish: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Portuguese: “Abadia de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Romanian: “abația Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Russian: “Сен-Жермен-де-Пре”
- Russian: “Сен-Жерменское аббатство”
- Russian: “Церковь Сен-Жермен-де-Пре”
- Scots: “Abbey o Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Slovak: “Opátstvo Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Slovenian: “opatija Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Slovenian: “samostan Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Slovenian: “Samostan Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Slovenian: “St-Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadia de saint germain des pres”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint Germain des Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint Germain des Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint Germain des Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint Germain des Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint Germain des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint Germain des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint Germain des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint Germain des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint Germain-des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint Germain-des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint-Germain-des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abadia de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint-Germain-des-Pres”
- Spanish: “abadía de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadía de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abadía de San Germán de los Prados”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de saint germain des pres”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint Germain des Pres”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint Germain des Prés”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint Germain des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint Germain des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint Germain-des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint Germain-des-Prés”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Pres”
- Spanish: “Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Swedish: “S:t-Germain-des-Prés”
- Swedish: “Saint Germain-des-Prés”
- Swedish: “Saint Germain”
- Swedish: “Saint-Germain des Prés”
- Swedish: “Saint-Germain-de-Pres”
- Swedish: “Saint-Germain-des-Pres”
- Swedish: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
- Swedish: “Saint-Germain-des-Près”
- Swedish: “Saint-German-des-Prés”
- Thai: “โบสถ์แซ็ง-แฌร์แม็ง-เด-เพร”
- Thai: “วัดแซ็ง-แฌร์แม็ง-เด-เพร”
- Turkish: “Saint-Germain-des-Prés Manastırı”
- Ukrainian: “Абатство Сен-Жермен-де-Пре”
- Ukrainian: “Сен-Жермен-де-Пре (абатство)”
- Ukrainian: “Сен-Жермен-де-Пре (Париж)”
- Urdu: “ساں جرمین دے پرے (ایبی)”
- Urdu: “ساں جرمین دے پرے”
- Vietnamese: “Tu viện Saint-Germain-des-Prés”
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