Pigalle

Pigalle is an area in , France, around the Place Pigalle, on the border between the 9th and the 18th arrondissements. It is named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: human settlement in France
  • Also known as: “Pigalle, Paris” and “Quartier Pigalle”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Moulin Rouge and Pigalle station.

Theater building
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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 .

Metro station
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Pigalle is a station on lines 2 and 12 of the Paris Métro, named after the Place Pigalle, which commemorates the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle on the border of the and the .

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montmartre and 9th arrondissement.

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

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The of is a diverse, "in between" section of the French capital. The Grands Boulevards area of shopping thoroughfares and flagship department stores is to be found in the southern part of the arrondissement.

Photo: Mbzt, CC BY 3.0.
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.

Pigalle

Latitude
48.88218° or 48° 52′ 56″ north
Longitude
2.33709° or 2° 20′ 14″ east
Open location code
8FW4V8JP+VR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1863666222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q576507
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Pigalle” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pigalle”
  • Arabic: “بيكال”
  • Armenian: “Պիգալ”
  • Basque: “Pigalle auzoa”
  • Belarusian: “Пігаль”
  • Catalan: “Barri de Pigalle”
  • Chinese: “皮加勒”
  • Chinese: “皮加勒区”
  • Czech: “Pigalle”
  • Dutch: “Quartier Pigalle”
  • Finnish: “Pigalle”
  • French: “Pigalle”
  • German: “Pigalle”
  • Hebrew: “פיגאל”
  • Italian: “Pigalle”
  • Japanese: “ピガール”
  • Korean: “까르띠에 피갈”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pigalle”
  • Norwegian: “Pigalle”
  • Polish: “Pigalle”
  • Russian: “Пигаль”
  • Spanish: “Pigalle”
  • Swedish: “Pigalle”
  • Turkish: “Quartier Pigalle”
  • Ukrainian: “Пігаль”
  • Vietnamese: “Pigalle”

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