Île de la Cité
Île de la Cité is an island in the river Seine in the center of Paris. In the 4th century, it was the site of the fortress of the Roman governor. In 508, Clovis I, the first King of the Franks, established his palace on the island.Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Notre Dame de Paris
Photo: P e z i, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notre-Dame de Paris, referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Conciergerie
Photo: Tetraktys, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Conciergerie is a former courthouse and prison in Paris, France, located on the west of the Île de la Cité, below the Palais de Justice.
Pont Saint-Michel
Photo: Kwangmo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge linking the Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the river Seine to the Île de la Cité.
Localities in the Area
4th arrondissement
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.
Latin Quarter
Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Latin Quarter of Paris is an area in the 5th and the 6th arrondissements of Paris.
Quartier des Halles
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Les Halles was Paris' central fresh food market. It last operated on 12 January 1973, after which…
Île de la Cité
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in the river Seine, Paris, France
- Categories: river island, residential area, locality and landform
- Location: Paris, Île-de-France, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.8547° or 48° 51' 17" northLongitude
2.34599° or 2° 20' 46" eastPopulation
891Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)Open Location Code
8FW4V83W+V9OpenStreetMap ID
way 55693529OpenStreetMap Feature
landuse=residentialOpenStreetMap Feature
place=isletGeoNames ID
3024877Wikidata ID
Q190063Île de la Cité Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: جزيرة المدينة
- Armenian: Սիտե կղզի
- Asturian: islla de la Cité
- Asturian: île de la Cité
- Basque: Ile de la Cite
- Basque: Île de la Cité
- Belarusian: Востраў Сітэ
- Belarusian: Сытэ
- Bosnian: Ile de la Cite
- Bosnian: Île de la Cité
- Bulgarian: Ил дьо ла Сите
- Catalan: Ile de la Cité
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- Cebuano: Île de la Cité
- Chinese: Île de la Cité
- Chinese: 城岛
- Chinese: 斯德岛
- Chinese: 西堤島
- Chinese: 西岱岛
- Chinese: 西岱島
- Chinese: 西提島
- Croatian: Île de la Cité
- Czech: Cité
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- Danish: Ile de la Cité
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- Dutch: Ile de la Cite
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- Dutch: Île de la Cité
- English: ile de la Cite
- English: Île-de-la-Fraternité
- English: île de la Cité
- Esperanto: Ile de la Cité
- Esperanto: Insulo Cite
- Esperanto: Insulo Cité
- Esperanto: Île de la Cité
- Estonian: Cité
- Estonian: Île de la Cité
- Finnish: Ile de la Cite
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- French: Ile de la Cité
- French: Île-de-la-Fraternité
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- Galician: Île de la Cité
- Georgian: სიტე
- German: Ile de la Cite
- German: Ile de la Cité
- German: Stadtinsel
- German: Île de la Cité
- Greek: Ιλ ντε λα Σιτέ
- Hebrew: איל דה לה סיטה
- Hungarian: Cité-sziget
- Indonesian: Pulau Cité
- Italian: Ile de la Citè
- Italian: Ile de la Cité
- Italian: Île de la Cité
- Japanese: シテ島
- Javanese: Île de la Cité
- Korean: 시테 섬
- Korean: 시테섬
- Latin: Insula Civitatis
- Lithuanian: Sitė sala
- Luxembourgish: Ile de la Cité
- Luxembourgish: Île de la Cité
- Macedonian: Сите
- Malay: Île de la Cité
- Min Nan Chinese: Île de la Cité
- Norwegian: Île de la Cité
- Norwegian Bokmål: Île de la Cité
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ile de la Cite
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Île de la Cité
- Occitan (post 1500): Isla de la Ciutat
- Persian: ایل دولاسیته
- Persian: ایل دو لا سیته
- Persian: جزیره سیته
- Persian: جزیرهٔ سیته
- Picard: Ile d'el Chitè
- Polish: Ile de la cite
- Polish: Île de la Cité
- Portuguese: Ilha de la Cité
- Portuguese: Île de la Cité
- Romanian: Île de la Cité
- Russian: Остров Сите
- Russian: Сите
- Russian: Ситэ
- Russian: остров Сите
- Russian: остров Ситэ
- Serbian: Ostrvo De la Site
- Serbian: Сите
- Serbo-Croatian: Île de la Cité
- Slovak: Île de la Cité
- Slovenian: Île de la Cité
- Spanish: Ile de la Cite
- Spanish: Ile de la Cité
- Spanish: Isla de la Cite
- Spanish: Isla de la Cité
- Spanish: Île de la Cite
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- Swedish: Ile de la Cite
- Swedish: Ile de la Cité
- Swedish: Île de la Cité
- Turkish: Ile de la cite
- Turkish: Île de la Cité
- Ukrainian: Острів Сіте
- Urdu: جزیرہ شہر
- Vietnamese: Île de la Cité
- Welsh: Ile de la Cite
- Welsh: Île de la Cité
- Wu Chinese: 西岱岛
Other Places Named Île de la Cité
In the Area
Localities
- BeaubourgNeighbourhood
- Saint-Germain-des-PrésSuburb
- Left Bank
- 5th arrondissement
- 6th arrondissement
- Village Saint-PaulNeighbourhood
Landmarks
- Brigade de Répression du BanditismePolice station
- Brigade de Répression du ProxénétismePolice station
- Rue de Lutèce
- Cour du Mai
- Cour de la Sainte-Chapelle
- Marché aux fleursBike rental
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Île de la Cité. Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.