The Wall of Love

The Wall of Love is a love-themed wall of 40 square metres in the Jehan Rictus garden square in , , France. The wall was created in 2000 by artists Frédéric Baron and Claire Kito and is composed of 612 tiles of enamelled lava, on which the phrase 'I love you' is featured 311 times in 250 languages.
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  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: mural
  • Description: love-themed wall in Montmartre, Paris
  • Also known as: “‘Ich-liebe-Dich’-Mauer”, “Wall of Love”, and “ジュテームの壁”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Abbesses station and Sacré-Cœur Basilica.

Metro station
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Abbesses is a station on Paris Métro Line 12, in the district and the . Abbesses was the deepest station in the Paris Métro, at 36 metres below ground, before being surpassed by in 2025.

Church
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The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre, commonly known as or simply Sacré-Cœur, is a church and minor basilica in dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. is situated 400 metres northeast of The Wall of Love.

Theater building
Photo: Juanedc, CC BY 2.0.
is a cabaret in , on the Boulevard de Clichy, at the Place Blanche, the intersection and end of the Rue Blanche. In 1889, the was co-founded by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the . is situated 460 metres west of The Wall of Love.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montmartre and Pigalle.

Suburb
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is a large hill in 's northern . It is 130 m high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the .

Suburb
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is an area in , France, around the Place , on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements. It is named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste .

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The of is probably best known for the hill of Montmartre which was the centre of the Communard uprising of the late-nineteenth century, but is also perhaps better known as the centre of the flourishing artist community of the period from around 1907-1914.

The Wall of Love

Latitude
48.88482° or 48° 53′ 5″ north
Longitude
2.33852° or 2° 20′ 19″ east
Open location code
8FW4V8MQ+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4044428611
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­mural
Wiki­data ID
Q10860702
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“The Wall of Love” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حائط حب”
  • Armenian: “Սիրո պատ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sevgi divarı”
  • Basque: “‘Maite zaitut’ esaldien murrua Parisen”
  • Basque: “’Maite zaitut’ esaldien murrua Parisen”
  • Bengali: “ভালোবাসার দেয়াল”
  • Chinese: “愛牆”
  • Czech: “Zeď lásky”
  • Czech: “Zeď Miluji tě”
  • Dutch: “Le mur des je t’aime”
  • Esperanto: “Amomuro”
  • French: “Mur des je t’aime”
  • German: “Le mur des je t’aime”
  • Hebrew: “קיר האהבה”
  • Italian: “Muro dei ti amo”
  • Japanese: “ジュ・テームの壁”
  • Korean: “사랑벽”
  • Korean: “사랑해 벽”
  • Persian: “دیوار عشق”
  • Russian: “Стена любви”
  • Spanish: “El Muro del Amor”
  • Spanish: “Muro de los te amo”
  • Spanish: “Muro de los Te amo”
  • Vietnamese: “Bức tường tình yêu”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Square Jehan-Rictus and Place des Abbesses.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Abbesses and Boite à Livres.

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Worth a closer look: Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and La Défense.

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