Paris is known as the City of Light. Part of the credit for this sobriquet can be ascribed to long-standing city ordinances that have restricted the height of buildings in the central city. A more modest skyline, interrupted only by the Eiffel Tower, the Tour Montparnasse, Sacré-Coeur, and a few church steeples, lends this city's citizens virtually unfettered access to natural light. Nonetheless, another significant contributor to the feeling of openness in Paris is the vast number of public spaces, both green and paved, interspersed throughout all twenty arrondissements, that afford the citizen the opportunity to escape, if only momentarily, his urban environment and partake of air and light like his cousins in the provinces. The following article (and its accompanying list) concern the public spaces known as squares and places in Paris.
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five royal squaresinParis. Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m ×...
the Restoration, the bridges and squares of Paris were returned to their pre-Revolution names; the July Revolution in 1830 (commemorated by the July Column...
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Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas də la bastij]) is a squareinParis where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the Bastille...
lit. 'Concord Square') is one of the major public squaresinParis, France. Measuring 7.6 ha (19 acres) in area, it is the largest squarein the French capital...
Place Charles de Gaulle at night France portal SquaresinParis Axe historique de Moncan, Patrice, Le Paris de Haussmann, Les Editions du Mecene, 2012...
community spirit in most areas of the eleventh, and it is interspersed with pleasant squares and parks. Cirque d'hiver Sainte-Marguerite, Paris Église Saint-Ambroise...
of wrought iron decoration in rocaille designs. The period also saw the introduction of monumental urban squaresinParis and other cities, notably Place...
principal wholesale market of Paris and mainly deals in food and horticultural products. It is located in the commune of Rungis, in the southern suburbs. It...
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pronunciation: [plas de viktwaʁ]; English: Victory Square, lit. 'Square of Victories') is a circular squarein central Paris, located a short distance northeast of...
Dalida (French pronunciation: [plas dalida]) is a squarein Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, named after the French music icon Dalida. Many...
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pronunciation: [plas də fɔ̃tənwa]) is a squareinParis, France, named after the victory of Maréchal Maurice de Saxe in the Battle of Fontenoy. At number 7...
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