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Bordeaux-Saint-Jean (Occitan: Bordèu Sent Joan) or formerly Bordeaux-Midi is the main railway station in the French city of Bordeaux. It is the southern terminus of the Paris–Bordeaux railway , and the western terminus of the Chemins de fer du Midi main line from Toulouse .
It is often billed as the longest pedestrian street in Europe. [citation needed] It was completely refurbished between 2000 and 2003 in a project by Jean-Michel Wilmotte. At the center of the Rue Sainte-Catherine is the Place Saint-Projet (named after the Auvergnat bishop who died in 674). The cross intersection was restored in 1977, it was at ...
The city of Bordeaux proper had a population of 259,809 in 2020 within its small municipal territory of 49 km 2 (19 sq mi), [8] but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Bordeaux metropolitan area had a population of 1,376,375 that same year (Jan. 2020 census), [7] the sixth-most populated in France after Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Lille, and ...
With a few exceptions (see Structure and Layout), it is situated along Paris's administrative limit. The speed limit along the Périphérique is 50 km/h (31 mph) as of 1 October 2024. Each ring generally has four traffic lanes, with no hard shoulder. Its major interchanges are called portes.
Pessac (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Peçac) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.It is a member of the metropolis of Bordeaux, being the second-largest suburb of Bordeaux and located just southwest of it.
The Boulevard Saint-Germain was the most important part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris (1850s and '60s) on the Left Bank. The boulevard replaced numerous small streets which approximated its path, including, from west to east (to the current Boulevard Saint-Michel), the Rue Saint-Dominique, Rue Taranne, Rue Sainte-Marguerite, Rue des Boucheries and Rue des Cordeliers. [1]
Boulevard Haussmann during Christmas period. 2,530 m long, the Boulevard Haussmann crosses the districts of Madeleine, Quartier de l'Europe, Faubourg-du-Roule, Faubourg-Montmartre and Chaussée-d'Antin located in the 9th and 8th arrondissements of Paris and connects, to the east, the crossroads of Boulevard des Italiens and Boulevard Montmartre, where the metro station is located.
The Boulevard Saint-Michel was the other important part of Haussmann's renovation of Paris on the Left Bank along with the creation of the Boulevard Saint-Germain.It was formerly approximated by the Rue de la Harpe, which for centuries led from the Seine to the Porte Saint-Michel, a gate to the walls of Paris near what is now the intersection of the Boulevard Saint-Michel and the Rue Monsieur ...