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Place de la Bastille, the location of the Bastille, stormed on 14 July 1789; Opéra Bastille, opera house; Promenade Plantée, a 4.5-kilometre long (2.8 mi) elevated garden along the abandoned railway which led to the former Gare de La Bastille railway station. Bassin de l'Arsenal, boat basin; July Column, a monument to the revolution of 1830
The Place de la Bastille (French pronunciation: [plas dÉ™ la bastij]) is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the Bastille and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution. No vestige of the prison remains.
(Puces de Saint-Ouen) 1908-04-21 underground Paris 18th: 5,611,814: Porte de la Chapelle (Saint-Denis) 1916-08-23 underground Paris 18th: 1,866,281: Porte de la Villette (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie) 1910-11-05 underground Paris 19th: 2,706,288: Porte de Montreuil: 1933-12-10 underground Paris 20th: 3,067,413: Porte de Pantin (Parc de ...
The Gare de la Bastille was a railway station on the Place de la Bastille in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France. The station was opened in 1859 and served as the terminus of the 55-kilometre (34 mi)-long line to Vincennes and Verneuil-l'Étang .
On 12 December 1969, the RER station was opened as a new Paris terminus for the Ligne de Vincennes, replacing the old Gare de La Bastille. [3] On 8 December 1977 the central section of line A opened from Nation to Auber. It is named after the Place de la Nation, named in honour of Bastille Day in 1880.
The Place d'Italie and the area of the Butte aux Cailles; The Place de la République; place de la Bastille and the Opera Bastille. The 19th century railway stations of Gare du Nord, Gare de l'Est and Gare d'Austerlitz. The Parc de la Villette and the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie.
De la Grand-mère à Météor : 45 ans d'évolution de la technologie des voies au métro de Paris (in French). Boulogne: ID. p. 275. ISBN 978-2-912252-00-5. OCLC 42080501. Tricoire, Jean (1999a). Le métro de Paris: 1899-1911 : images de la construction (in French). Paris Arles: Paris-Musées RATP Diff. Actes sud. p. 215.
Augustin Dumont's Génie de la Liberté. The July Column (French: Colonne de Juillet) is a monumental column in Paris commemorating the Revolution of 1830.It stands in the center of the Place de la Bastille and celebrates the Trois Glorieuses — the 'three glorious' days of 27–29 July 1830 that saw the fall of Charles X, King of France, and the commencement of the July Monarchy of Louis ...