Place des Deux-Écus
Place des Deux-Écus is a square in Paris, Île-de-France. Place des Deux-Écus is situated nearby to the bike rental Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Deux Écus, as well as near the government office CCI Paris.Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Pedestrian zone
- Description: square in Paris, France
- Also known as: “Place des Deux Écus”, “place des Deux-Ecus”, and “place des Deux-Écus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Orsay Museum and Bourse de commerce.
Orsay Museum
Museum
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The Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. Orsay Museum is situated 1¼ km west of Place des Deux-Écus.
Bourse de commerce
Museum
Photo: Chabe01, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bourse de commerce is a building in Paris, originally used as a place to negotiate the trade of grain and other commodities, and used to provide services to businesses by the Paris Chamber of Commerce during the latter part of the 20th century.
Louvre Pyramid
Photo: Flickr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass-and-metal entrance way and skylight designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids. Louvre Pyramid is situated 460 metres southwest of Place des Deux-Écus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quartier des Halles and 1st arrondissement.
Quartier des Halles
Quarter
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Les Halles was Paris'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 shopping mall built largely underground and topped by an undulating 2.5 hectare canopy.
1st arrondissement
Photo: Jjtkk, Public domain.
The centre of contemporary Paris and the site of such landmarks as the Louvre and of the Tuileries and Palais-Royal, the 1st arrondissement is full of attractions for travellers of all inclinations, including some of the finest parks, museums, shops, and bars in the city.
2nd arrondissement
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The 2nd arrondissement 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.
Place des Deux-Écus
- Category: square
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.86284° or 48° 51′ 46″ northLongitude
2.34154° or 2° 20′ 30″ eastNamed after
signOpen location code
8FW4V87R+4JOpenStreetMap ID
way 53825987OpenStreetMap feature
highway=pedestrianWikidata ID
Q3390503
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Place des Deux-Écus” goes by many names.
- French: “place des Deux-Écus, Paris”
- French: “place des Deux-Écus”
- French: “Place des Deux-Écus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “place des Deux-Écus”
- Russian: “пл. Двух-Экю”
- Turkish: “Deux-Écus Meydanı”
- Turkish: “place des Deux-Écus”
- “place des Deux-Écus”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Deux Écus and CCI Paris.
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