Île de la Cité

The Ile de la Cité is an inland island in the Seine and the oldest part of the French capital Paris. They grew over the centuries from the original 8 to 17 acres and is joined by nine bridges with the two banks of Seine Rive Droite and Rive Gauche as well as with its neighboring island of Ile Saint- Louis. This bear, clockwise from the west and starting, the following names: Pont Neuf, Pont au Change, Pont Notre -Dame, the Pont d' Arcole, Pont Saint- Louis, Pont de l' ARCHEVECHE, Pont au Double, Petit Pont and Pont Saint -Michel.

The Boulevard du Palais divides the island into two parts belonging to different arrondissements; The western part belongs to the first, the eastern to the 4th arrondissement of Paris.

The Ile de la Cité is Notre -Dame de Paris location, the Archbishop of Paris, the former royal residence in the Palais de la Cité seat (now the Palace of Justice ) with the former palace chapel of Sainte -Chapelle and the Conciergerie and the Prefecture of Police.

History

The Ile de la Cité was inhabited in ancient times - first by Celts and later (after 52 BC) as a city of the Roman Empire in Gaul. To 540/550 I ( king 511-558 ) was the Cathedral of St. Etienne ( St. Stephen ), which was the predecessor of the Notre- Dame de Paris Cathedral, built during the reign of the Frankish king Childebert. As Clovis I made ​​it the capital of his kingdom in the early 6th century from the dynasty of Merovingian Paris, was the Ile de la Cité again the center of attention. At the western tip of Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay was executed in 1314.

The connection to the banks of the Seine which, inter alia, the " New Bridge " ( Pont Neuf ) ago, the oldest bridge in Paris. In its construction (1578-1607) was Henry III. the three marshy Schwemminseln that lay ahead of Westpitze the Île de la Cité, 1584 with this link. On the newly acquired area of ​​Cité he had to create a place (now the Place Dauphine ) and build houses, from whose sale he procured the money necessary to build the bridge.

Attractions

Worth seeing are on the Île de la Cité

  • Notre -Dame de Paris cathedral
  • The former royal residence in the Palais de la Cité (now the Palace of Justice )
  • The former palace chapel of Sainte -Chapelle
  • The Conciergerie
  • The royal court Place Dauphine
  • The Caen Memorial de la Deportation
  • The Flower Market ( Sunday bird market )

More images

Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité

Monument of Charlemagne in front of Cathedral

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