Place Charles-de-Gaulle
The Place Charles -de- Gaulle (formerly the Place de l' Étoile ) is one of the largest places of Paris. In the circular, approximately 240 meter diameter space encounter the 8th, the 16th and the 17th arrondissement of Paris together. The center of the square is the Arc de Triomphe. His more well-known former name of the Place de l' Étoile (German, Sternplatz ') was the square of 1863 to 1970., He owed the name of the fact that he was in the second half of the 18th century on a former Parisian hill called Butte de l' Étoile and Étoile de Chaillot the hill Colline du Roule was applied to the crossed several roads. But in the 19th and 20th centuries contributed the place its old name rightly, as a star-shaped open twelve large Parisian streets on him, the Avenue des Champs -Elysees, Avenue de Friedland, Avenue Hoche, Avenue de Wagram, the Avenue Mac -Mahon, the Avenue Carnot, Avenue de la Grande Armee, the Avenue Foch, the Avenue Victor- Hugo, Avenue Kleber, Avenue d' Iéna and the Avenue Marceau.