Place du Caire

Place du Caire is a square in , . Place du Caire is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near .
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  • Type: Pedestrian zone
  • Description: square in Paris, France
  • Also known as: “place du Caire”

Places of Interest Nearby

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

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. is situated 550 metres southeast of Place du Caire.

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. is situated 1 km south of Place du Caire.

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 2 km southwest of Place du Caire.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sentier and 2nd arrondissement.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the which has been known historically as a multicultural textile and garment manufacturing district.

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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.

Quarter
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Les Halles was 's central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973 and was replaced by an underground shopping centre and a park. The unpopular modernist development was demolished yet again in 2010, and replaced by the Westfield Forum des Halles, a modern built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.

Place du Caire

Latitude
48.86814° or 48° 52′ 5″ north
Longitude
2.3486° or 2° 20′ 55″ east
Named after
Cairo
Open location code
8FW4V89X+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 167394068
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­pedestrian
Wiki­data ID
Q3390571
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Place du Caire” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ميدان القاهرة (باريس)”
  • Arabic: “ميدان القاهرة”
  • Chinese: “开罗广场”
  • Czech: “Place du Caire”
  • French: “place du Caire, Paris”
  • French: “place du Caire”
  • French: “Place du Caire”
  • German: “Place du Caire”
  • Japanese: “ケール広場”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “place du Caire”
  • Slovak: “Place du Caire”
  • Turkish: “Caire Meydanı”
  • Turkish: “place du Caire”
  • “place du Caire”

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