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Bastille Square (Place de la Bastille) (Paris) Place de la Bastille is a public square in Paris, France. It is named after the Bastille Saint-Antoine, the French prison which once stood there; it was stormed on 14 July 1789 during the French Revolution. Today, it is home to the Opéra Bastille, a modern opera house. It is served by the Paris Métro lines 1, 5 and 8.
Still a symbolic place for social protest manifestation www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille Category: ---- interesting place square historic town square bastille
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