Place Dauphine
The Place Dauphine is a public square located near the western end of the Île de la Cité in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. It was initiated by Henry IV in 1607, the second of his projects for public squares in Paris, the first being the Place Royale.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Square
- Description: square in Paris, France
- Also known as: “place Dauphine”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pont Neuf and Île de la Cité.
Pont Neuf
Photo: Rmrfstar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pont Neuf is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that between 250 and 225 BC was the birthplace of Paris. Pont Neuf is situated 140 metres north of Place Dauphine.
Île de la Cité
Islet
Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Île de la Cité is one of two natural islands on the Seine River in central Paris. It spans 22.5 hectares of land. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of the area governor for the Roman Empire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Quartier des Halles.
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.
Quartier des Halles
Quarter
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Les Halles was Paris'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.
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…
Place Dauphine
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Vietnamese—“Place Dauphine” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Dofina meydanı”
- Belarusian: “Плошча Дафіна”
- Bosnian: “Place Dauphine”
- Chinese: “太子廣場”
- Czech: “Place Dauphine”
- Danish: “Place Dauphine”
- Dutch: “place Dauphine”
- Dutch: “Place Dauphine”
- Faroese: “Place Dauphine”
- Finnish: “Place Dauphine”
- French: “place Dauphine, Paris”
- French: “place Dauphine”
- French: “Place Dauphine”
- French: “place de Thionville”
- German: “Place Dauphine”
- Indonesian: “Place Dauphine”
- Italian: “place Dauphine”
- Italian: “Place Dauphine”
- Japanese: “ドーフィネ広場”
- Japanese: “ドフィーヌ広場”
- Malay: “Place Dauphine”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “place Dauphine”
- Norwegian: “Place Dauphine”
- Polish: “Place Dauphine”
- Polish: “place de Thionville”
- Portuguese: “Place Dauphine”
- Russian: “Площадь Дофина”
- Slovak: “Place Dauphine”
- Slovenian: “Place Dauphine”
- Spanish: “Place Dauphine”
- Swedish: “Place Dauphine”
- Turkish: “Dauphine Meydanı”
- Turkish: “place Dauphine”
- Ukrainian: “Площа Дофіна”
- Urdu: “دوفین چوک”
- Vietnamese: “quảng trường Dauphine”
- “place Dauphine”
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