Ruins of Bastille

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 by the kings of France.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: former fortress in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Bastille”, “La Bastille”, “બેસ્ટાઇલ”, “บัสตีย์แซ็งต็องตวน”, and “圣安托万监狱”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Opéra Bastille and July Column.

Theater building
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 190 metres southeast of Ruins of Bastille.

Monument
Photo: Vassil, Public domain.
The is a monumental column in commemorating the Revolution of 1830. It stands in the center of the 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.

Metro station
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Bastille is a station on Line 1, Line 5 and Line 8 of the Paris Métro. Located under the and near the former location of the , it is situated on the border of the , and .

Places in the Area

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

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Suburb
Photo: Jean-François Gornet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 .

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.

Ruins of Bastille

Latitude
48.8527° or 48° 51′ 10″ north
Longitude
2.36878° or 2° 22′ 8″ east
Open location code
8FW4V939+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13411401985
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Wiki­data ID
Q1865480
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ruins of Bastille” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bastille”
  • Albanian: “Bastija”
  • Arabic: “أطلال الباستيل”
  • Arabic: “سجن الباستيل”
  • Armenian: “Բաստիլ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bastiliya qalası”
  • Basque: “Bastilla”
  • Belarusian: “Бастылія”
  • Bengali: “বাস্তিল”
  • Breton: “Bastille”
  • Bulgarian: “Бастилия”
  • Catalan: “La Bastilla”
  • Chinese: “巴士底狱”
  • Chinese: “巴士底獄”
  • Chinese: “巴士底監獄”
  • Czech: “Bastila”
  • Danish: “Bastillen”
  • Dutch: “Bastille Saint-Antoine”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الباستيل”
  • Esperanto: “Bastille”
  • Estonian: “Bastille”
  • Finnish: “Bastilji”
  • French: “Bastille”
  • French: “Ruines de la Bastille”
  • Galician: “Bastilla”
  • Georgian: “ბასტილია”
  • German: “Bastille”
  • Greek: “Βαστίλη”
  • Gujarati: “બેસ્તાઇલ”
  • Hebrew: “בסטיליה”
  • Hindi: “बास्तिय”
  • Hungarian: “Bastille”
  • Icelandic: “Bastillan”
  • Indonesian: “Bastille”
  • Irish: “an Bastille”
  • Irish: “An Bastille”
  • Italian: “Bastiglia”
  • Japanese: “バスティーユ牢獄”
  • Javanese: “Baluwarti Bastil”
  • Jèrriais: “Bastîle dé Paris”
  • Jèrriais: “Bastîle”
  • Kazakh: “Бастилия”
  • Kirghiz: “Бастилия”
  • Korean: “바스티유 감옥”
  • Latin: “Bastilia”
  • Latvian: “Bastīlija”
  • Ligurian: “Bastiggia”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Bastilia”
  • Lithuanian: “Bastilija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bastille”
  • Macedonian: “Бастилја”
  • Malay: “Bastille”
  • Marathi: “बास्तीय”
  • Mazanderani: “باستیل”
  • Mongolian: “Бастилийн цайз”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bastillen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bastillen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Stormen mot Bastillen”
  • Norwegian: “Bastillen”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bastilha”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਾਸਤੀਲ”
  • Persian: “قلعه باستیل”
  • Polish: “Bastylia”
  • Portuguese: “Bastilha”
  • Quechua: “bachuta”
  • Romanian: “Bastilia”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бастили”
  • Russian: “Бастилия”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bastille”
  • Serbian: “Бастиља”
  • Sicilian: “Bastigghia”
  • Sindhi: “باسٽل”
  • Sinhala: “බැස්ටීලය”
  • Slovak: “Bastila”
  • Slovenian: “Bastilja”
  • Spanish: “Bastilla”
  • Swedish: “Bastiljen”
  • Tajik: “Бастилия”
  • Thai: “บัสตีย์”
  • Turkish: “Bastille Hapishanesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бастилія”
  • Urdu: “باستیل”
  • Uzbek: “Bastiliya”
  • Vietnamese: “Bastille”
  • Welsh: “Bastille”
  • Western Armenian: “Պասթիլ բանտ-ամրոցը”
  • Western Frisian: “Bastille”
  • Western Panjabi: “باستیل”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴士底獄”
  • Yakut: “Бастилия”
  • Yiddish: “באסטיל”
  • Yue Chinese: “巴士底監獄”

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