Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes

Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes is a work of art in , . Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes is situated nearby to the park , as well as near the college .
Photo: Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, CC0.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: bust
  • Description: fountain in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “Fontaine des Carmes” and “fontaine du Marche-aux-Carmes”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Bibliothèque Mazarine and Orsay Museum.

Library
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The , or Mazarin Library, is located within the Palais de l'institut de France, or the Palace of the Institute of France, at 23 quai de Conti in the 6th arrondissement, on the Left Bank of the Seine facing the and the .

Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the of the . It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. is situated 1 km northwest of Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes.

University
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The , formally the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, is a French grande école whose primary mission is to provide high-level fine arts education and training. is situated 220 metres west of Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Left Bank.

Quarter
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is one of the four administrative quarters of the , , located around the church of the former Abbey of .

Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0.
The in travellers' terms generally refers to the "Left Bank" of the River Seine in the capital city of . The defies precise definition but generally refers to those arrondissements on the southern bank of the river as it flows…

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As with itself, the is hard to write about without using superlatives. There's a bit of everything here, from the busy sidewalks of Paris' main art Gallery scene to the expansive green spaces and under-tree cafés of the Jardin…

Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes

Latitude
48.85688° or 48° 51′ 25″ north
Longitude
2.33681° or 2° 20′ 13″ east
Inception
1830
Open location code
8FW4V84P+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1200620877
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­fountain
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­bust
Wiki­data ID
Q3076266
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In Other Languages

From Czech to Turkish—“Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes” goes by many names.
  • Czech: “Fontána Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • French: “fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • French: “Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • Italian: “fontana del Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • Italian: “Fontana del Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • Swedish: “Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • Turkish: “Fontaine du Marché-aux-Carmes”
  • Turkish: “Marché-aux-Carmes Çeşmesi Heykeli”

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