Villa des otages

Villa des otages is in Paris, Île-de-France. Villa des otages is situated nearby to the hospital Hôpital de Jour pour Enfants, as well as near the social service facility Résidence Haxo.

Photo: Max.kit, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Sign
Description: ‘Histoire de Paris’ panel in Paris 20th arrondissement
Inscription: “Ancien bal public connu sous le nom de Cité de Vincennes, la ‘Villa des Otages’ fut le théatre d’un épisode tragique de la Semaine sanglante de la Commune de Paris (21-28 mai 1871). Le 26 mai 1871, 50 otages tirés de la prison de la Roquette, pour la”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Notre-Dame-des-Otages, Paris and Belleville Reservoir.

Notre-Dame-des-Otages, Paris

Church

Photo: Peter17, CC BY 3.0.

Notre-Dame-des-Otages is a Roman Catholic parish church in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. It was built between 1936 and 1938 to commemorate forty-nine priests and policemen who were taken hostage and executed by the Paris Commune in 1871 during the Massacre in the Rue Haxo.

Belleville Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: LPLT, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Père Lachaise Cemetery

Photo: Connie Ma, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The 20th arrondissement of Paris lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas. Père Lachaise Cemetery is situated 1½ km southwest of Villa des otages.