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3rd arrondissement

A quieter part of the ancient Marais neighbourhood which is centred in the , the 3rd is possibly one of the best places to live in . There are several good open air markets and lots of great local designer clothing stores.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Centre Georges Pompidou and Museum of Arts et Métiers.

Arts center
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The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in , France.

Museum
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The Musée des Arts et Métiers is an industrial design museum in that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.

Theater building
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The is a theatre located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in the of , France. Designed in 1864 by the architect Charles Duval, its name refers to Ba-ta-clan, an operetta by Jacques Offenbach.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 4th arrondissement and 10th arrondissement.

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The 4th is a good chunk of what used to be medieval Paris, and you'll find a lot left from that time on both islands and in the narrow streets of the lower Marais.

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The of centres on the Canal Saint Martin and the restaurants and cafés which line its banks. Part sleepy faubourg — as suburbs were called in 18th century Paris — and part industrial centre, the has lately enjoyed the benefits of both the booming nightlife scene in the neighbouring 11th, as well as the Parisian cycling and roller-blading boom.

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The of Paris is one of the financial centres of Europe, being home to the Bourse and thus the CAC 40 index you hear about in world financial news. Other major activities in the neighbourhood are journalism and fashion.

3rd arrondissement

Latitude
48.86421° or 48° 51′ 51″ north
Longitude
2.36094° or 2° 21′ 39″ east
Population
32,800
Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V976+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 938321858
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
2973189
Wiki­data ID
Q223140
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“3rd arrondissement” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدائرة الثالثة في باريس”
  • Arabic: “الدائرة الثالثة”
  • Armenian: “Փարիզի 3-րդ շրջան”
  • Asturian: “III Distritu de París”
  • Azerbaijani: “III arondisman”
  • Basque: “Parisko 3. barrutia”
  • Belarusian: “III акруга Парыжа”
  • Bengali: “প্যারিসের ৩য় আরোঁদিসমঁ”
  • Bosnian: “3. arondisman”
  • Breton: “3e arondisamant”
  • Catalan: “3r districte de París”
  • Chinese: “Pa-lí 3 khu”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第三区”
  • Chinese: “巴黎第三區”
  • Czech: “3. obvod”
  • Czech: “3. pařížský obvod”
  • Danish: “3. arrondissement i Paris”
  • Dutch: “3e arrondissement (Parijs)”
  • Dutch: “3e arrondissement van Parijs”
  • Dutch: “3e arrondissement”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حى پاريس التالت”
  • Erzya: “Парижэнь III-це кужо”
  • Esperanto: “3-a arondismento de Parizo”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi 3. ringkond”
  • Estonian: “Pariisi III ringkond”
  • Finnish: “3. arrondissementti”
  • French: “3e arrondissement de Paris”
  • French: “3e Arrondissement”
  • French: “IIIe arrondissement”
  • French: “Paris 3e”
  • Galician: “3º distrito de París”
  • German: “3. Arrondissement von Paris”
  • German: “3. Arrondissement”
  • German: “Paris III”
  • Greek: “3ο Δημοτικό Διαμέρισμα Παρισιού”
  • Greek: “3ο δημοτικό διαμέρισμα του Παρισιού”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע השלישי של פריז”
  • Hebrew: “הרובע השלישי”
  • Hungarian: “Párizs 3. kerülete”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-3 Paris”
  • Indonesian: “Arondisemen ke-3”
  • Irish: “3ú arrondissement Pháras”
  • Italian: “III arrondissement di Parigi”
  • Japanese: “3区 (パリ)”
  • Japanese: “3区”
  • Japanese: “パリ3区”
  • Korean: “3구”
  • Korean: “파리 3구”
  • Latin: “Circumdarium III Lutetiae”
  • Luxembourgish: “3. Arrondissement vu Paräis”
  • Luxembourgish: “3. Arrondissement”
  • Luxembourgish: “arrondissement du Temple”
  • Malay: “Daerah 3”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pa-lí 3 khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “3. arrondissement”
  • Norwegian: “3. arrondissement”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “3au arrondiment de París”
  • Persian: “منطقه ۳ پاریس”
  • Polish: “3. dzielnica Paryża”
  • Portuguese: “3.º arrondissement de Paris”
  • Portuguese: “3.º distrito de Paris”
  • Romanian: “Arondismentul 3 din Paris”
  • Russian: “III округ Парижа”
  • Russian: “III округ”
  • Serbian: “3. арондисман Париза”
  • Slovak: “3. obvod”
  • Slovenian: “3. okrožje Pariza”
  • Slovenian: “3. pariško okrožje”
  • Slovenian: “Pariz 3”
  • Slovenian: “Pariz III”
  • Spanish: “III Arrondissement de Paris”
  • Spanish: “III Arrondissement de París”
  • Spanish: “III Distrito de Paris”
  • Spanish: “III distrito de París”
  • Spanish: “III Distrito de París”
  • Swedish: “3ème arrondissement”
  • Swedish: “Paris tredje arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “3. arrondissement”
  • Turkish: “Paris 3. bölge”
  • Ukrainian: “III округ Парижа”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا تیسرا آرونڈسمینٹ”
  • Urdu: “پیرس کا تیسرا اراؤنڈڈسمنٹ”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 3, Paris”
  • Vietnamese: “Quận 3”

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