Le Quartier Dupleix

Le Quartier Dupleix is a neighborhood in Paris, Île-de-France. Le Quartier Dupleix is situated nearby to the suburb Passy, as well as near the quarter Grenelle.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eiffel Tower and Île aux Cygnes.

Eiffel Tower

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The Eiffel Tower is a lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889.

Île aux Cygnes

Islet

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Île aux Cygnes is a small artificial island on the river Seine in Paris, France, in the 15th arrondissement. It was created in 1827 to protect the bridge named the Pont de Grenelle.

The Pont de Bir-Hakeim, named after the 1942 battle in Libya, until 1948 the Pont de Passy, is a steel open spandrel deck arch bridge on stone masonry starlings, which crosses the River Seine in Paris.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Passy and Grenelle.

Passy

Suburb

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Passy is an area of Paris, France, located in the 16th arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is adjacent to Auteuil to the southwest, and Chaillot to the northeast.

Grenelle

Quarter

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Grenelle is a neighbourhood in southwestern Paris, France. It is a part of the 15th arrondissement of the city. There is currently a Boulevard de Grenelle which runs along the North delimitation of the quartier, and a Rue de Grenelle, a few kilometers North-East in the 7th arrondissement.

16th arrondissement

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This large district occupies most of the West of Paris, extending east-west between the bends of the Seine from the Jardins of Trocadero immediately facing the Eiffel Tower to the expansive Bois du Boulogne, and north-south from the Etoile to the southern border of Paris.