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Place de la Bastille

The Place de la Bastille is a 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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  • Type: Railway stop
  • Description: square in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Bastille”
Photo: Mododie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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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. It played an important role in the internal conflicts of France and for most of its history was used as a state prison by the kings of France.

Theater building
Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
The is a modern opera house in the , France. Inaugurated in 1989 as part of President François Mitterrand's Grands Travaux, it became the main facility of the Paris National Opera, France's principal opera company… is situated 250 metres southeast of Place de la Bastille.

Monument
Photo: Vassil, Public domain.
The is a monumental column in commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the 'three glorious' days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X, King of France, and the commencement of the July Monarchy of Louis-Philippe, King of the French.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Faubourg Saint-Antoine and Marais.

Suburb
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The was one of the traditional suburbs of , France. It grew up to the east of the around the abbey of , and ran along the Rue du .

Suburb
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The is a historic district in , . It spreads across parts of the and arrondissements on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the .

Photo: ParisSharing, CC BY 2.0.
The is home to two quite different but equally blossoming centres of Parisian nightlife. The streets just northwest of Place de la Bastille are full of little bars which attract a mix of young suburban Parisians, expats, and foreigners.

Place de la Bastille

Latitude
48.85325° or 48° 51′ 12″ north
Longitude
2.36853° or 2° 22′ 7″ east
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V939+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12180980413
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­stop_position
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­stop
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”
  • 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”
  • “place de la Bastille”

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