Island of the City

The island of the City is a island located on the the Seine, in the center of Paris.

History

In 52 av. J. - C., at the time of the fight between Vercingétorix and Jules César, a small tribe Celte named the Parisii lived in the surroundings. It was thought a long time that Parisii had settled on the island of the City. Today, the historians lean rather for other assumptions. Parisii could indeed very well have settled a little further, with the mouth of the Bièvre, either on another island now disappeared, or on the peninsula formed by the mouth of the Beaver, on left bank.

Three buildings of the medieval time are still today on the island of the City:

the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris.
the the Ste Chapelle of Louis IX (1245).
the prison of the Caretaker's lodge

one also finds there:

the Police headquarter of Paris
the Law courts
the Hospital
the Bankruptcy court
the Memorial of the Martyrs of the Deportation on the Island of the City to Paris, built 1954 with 1964 by the architect Georges-Henri Pingusson

Geography

The island of the City has three public gardens: the Public garden of Green-Gallant the on the Western point, the public garden of the Île-de-France on the point Is, and the public garden Jean XXIII around Notre-Dame. For these public gardens, it is necessary to add four places: the place of the Pont-Neuf, the Dauphine place (behind the law courts), the Square Notre-Dame, and the place Louis-Lépine where the flower market is.

The quays of the island are divided into six parts: in North quays of the Clock and Corsica, and the quay with the Flowers, the South quays of the Goldsmiths and Market-Nine, and in the East the quay of the Archbishop's palace.

In addition to the boulevard of the Palate, the island includes/understands also ten streets:

the street Henri-Robert (behind the Law courts)
the street of Harlay (behind the Law courts)
the street of Lutèce
the street of the City
the street of Arcole
the street of the Cloister-Our-Lady
the street Chanoinesse
the street of the Dove
the street of Ursins
the street of the Cantors

On the administrative level, the boulevard of the Palate delimits the border between the 1 {{er}} district (in the West) and the 4 {{E}} district (in the East).

See too

Island Saint-Louis

External bonds

Insecula.com

Plane and sights satellite:

the Island of the City current Photographs and the years 1900.

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