France
Île-de-France
Paris

Quartier des Halles

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 built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.
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  • Type: Quarter
  • Description: administrative quarter in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Halles” and “Les Halles”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint-Eustache and Centre Georges Pompidou.

Church
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The Church of St. Eustache, Paris, is a church in the of . The present building was built between 1532 and 1633. Situated near the site of Paris' medieval marketplace and rue Montorgueil, exemplifies a mixture of multiple architectural styles: its structure is Flamboyant Gothic while its interior decoration and other details are Renaissance and classical.

Arts center
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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.

Railway station
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is a major train hub in and the largest underground station in the world. Opened in 1977, it is the central transit hub for the Paris metropolitan area, connecting three of five RER commuter-rail lines and five of sixteen Métro lines.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sentier and 2nd arrondissement.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the which has been known historically as a multicultural textile and garment manufacturing district.

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The of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.

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The centre of contemporary and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.

Quartier des Halles

Latitude
48.86237° or 48° 51′ 45″ north
Longitude
2.34531° or 2° 20′ 43″ east
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V86W+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2140597251
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­quarter
Geo­Names ID
7117438
Wiki­data ID
Q387285
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Quartier des Halles” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ալ”
  • Basque: “Halles”
  • Belarusian: “Аль (квартал)”
  • Belarusian: “Аль”
  • Belarusian: “квартал Аль”
  • Belarusian: “Ле-Аль”
  • Bulgarian: “Халите”
  • Catalan: “Halles de París”
  • Catalan: “quartier des Halles”
  • Catalan: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Chinese: “大堂”
  • Chinese: “大堂地區”
  • Chinese: “大堂街区”
  • Chinese: “巴黎大堂”
  • Czech: “Halles de Paris”
  • Czech: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Dutch: “Halles”
  • French: “Forum des Halles”
  • French: “Halles de Paris”
  • French: “Halles”
  • French: “Les Halles”
  • French: “quartier des halles”
  • French: “Quartier des Halles”
  • German: “Quartier des Halles”
  • German: “Viertel der Hallen”
  • Greek: “Αλ”
  • Greek: “Λε Αλ”
  • Hebrew: “לה אל”
  • Hungarian: “Les Halles-negyed”
  • Hungarian: “Les Halles”
  • Hungarian: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Indonesian: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Irish: “Halles”
  • Italian: “Halles”
  • Kazakh: “Ле-Аль”
  • Korean: “알 카르티에”
  • Korean: “알”
  • Luxembourgish: “Halles”
  • Persian: “محله له‌ال”
  • Portuguese: “Les Halles de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Portuguese: “Quartier Les Halles”
  • Russian: “Аль”
  • Russian: “Ле-Аль”
  • Scots: “Halles”
  • Slovak: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Slovenian: “Halles”
  • Slovenian: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Spanish: “Halles de París”
  • Spanish: “Les Halles”
  • Swedish: “Hallarna”
  • Swedish: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Turkish: “Quartier des Halles”
  • Ukrainian: “Аль”
  • Ukrainian: “Ле-Аль”

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