Place de la Bastille

The Place de la Bastille is a square in where the once stood, until the storming of the Bastille and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution.
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  • Square
  • …lies at an elevation of 43 metres (141 feet)
  • Description: square in Paris, France
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ruins of Bastille and Opéra Bastille.

Castle
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The Bastille was a medieval fortress in , known as the Bastille Saint-Antoine.

Theater building
The is a modern opera house in the , France. is situated 210 metres southeast of Place de la Bastille.

Monument
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The is a monumental column in commemorating the Revolution of 1830.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Le Village Saint-Paul and Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
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The was one of the traditional suburbs of , France.

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The is home to two quite different…

Place de la Bastille

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Latitude
48.85311° or 48° 51′ 11″ north
Longitude
2.36916° or 2° 22′ 9″ east
Open location code
8FW4V939+6M
Geo­Names ID
8030041
Wiki­data ID
Q778784

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Place de la Bastille” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ساحة الباستيل”
  • Armenian: “Բաստիլի հրապարակ”
  • Basque: “Bastillako plaza”
  • Belarusian: “Плошча Бастыліі”
  • Bulgarian: “Площад на Бастилията”
  • Catalan: “Plaça de la Bastilla”
  • Chinese: “巴士底广场”
  • Chinese: “巴士底廣場”
  • Czech: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Danish: “Bastillepladsen”
  • Dutch: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان الباستيل”
  • Esperanto: “Placo Bastille”
  • Finnish: “Place de la Bastille”
  • French: “place de la Bastille, Paris”
  • French: “place de la Bastille”
  • French: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Georgian: “ბასტილიის მოედანი”
  • German: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Greek: “Πλατεία της Βαστίλης”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר הבסטיליה”
  • Hungarian: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Indonesian: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Italian: “place de la Bastille”
  • Italian: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Japanese: “バスティーユ広場”
  • Korean: “바스티유 광장”
  • Latin: “platea Bastillae”
  • Luxembourgish: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Macedonian: “Плоштад Бастилја”
  • Malay: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “place de la Bastille”
  • Norwegian: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Persian: “میدان باستی”
  • Persian: “میدان باستیل”
  • Polish: “Plac Bastylii”
  • Portuguese: “place de la Bastille”
  • Portuguese: “Praça da Bastilha”
  • Romanian: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Russian: “площадь Бастилии”
  • Russian: “Площадь Бастилии”
  • Serbian: “Трг Бастиље”
  • Slovenian: “place de la Bastille”
  • Slovenian: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Spanish: “Plaza de la Bastilla”
  • Swedish: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Thai: “ปลัสเดอลาบัสตีย์”
  • Turkish: “Bastille Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “Place de la Bastille”
  • Ukrainian: “Площа Бастилії”
  • Urdu: “باستیل چوک”
  • Vietnamese: “Quảng trường Bastille”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴士底廣場”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Nearby Places

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Paris: Highlights

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