Stravinsky Fountain

The Stravinsky Fountain is a whimsical public fountain ornamented with sixteen works of sculpture, moving and spraying water, representing the works of composer Igor Stravinsky.
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  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: whimsical public fountain
  • Also known as: “Fontaine des Automates”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Centre Georges Pompidou and Notre Dame de Paris.

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 140 metres northeast of Stravinsky Fountain.

Church
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, often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the , in the , France. is situated 740 metres south of Stravinsky Fountain.

Church
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The Church of or Église Saint-Merry) is a parish church in , located near the along the rue Saint Martin, in the on the Rive Droite.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include 4th arrondissement and Quartier des Halles.

Photo: Björn Söderqvist, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.

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.

Suburb
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The is a historic district in , . It spreads across parts of the and arrondissements on the Rive Droite, or Right Bank, of the .

Stravinsky Fountain

Latitude
48.85948° or 48° 51′ 34″ north
Longitude
2.35149° or 2° 21′ 5″ east
Inception
1983
Height
0.75 metres (2.5 feet)
Width
0.3 metres (0.98 feet)
Open location code
8FW4V952+QH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 88301107
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
water=­basin
Wiki­data ID
Q281309
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Spanish—“Stravinsky Fountain” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ստրավինսկու շատրվան”
  • Catalan: “Fontaine Stravinski”
  • Catalan: “Fontaine Stravinsky”
  • Chinese: “斯特拉文斯基喷泉”
  • Czech: “Stravinského fontána”
  • Dutch: “Stravinskyfontein”
  • Dutch: “Strawinsky fontein”
  • Dutch: “Strawinsky-fontein”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة سترافينسكى”
  • Estonian: “Stravinski purskkaev”
  • Finnish: “Fontaine Stravinski”
  • Finnish: “Fontaine Stravinsky”
  • French: “fontaine des Automates”
  • French: “fontaine Stravinsky”
  • French: “Fontaine Stravinsky”
  • German: “Strawinski Brunnen”
  • German: “Strawinski-Brunnen”
  • Italian: “Fontana Stravinsky”
  • Japanese: “ストラヴィンスキーの噴水”
  • Russian: “Фонтан Стравинского”
  • Spanish: “Fuente Stravinsky”

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Highlights include IRCAM and Rue Saint-Merri.

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