Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris)
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quarter (urban subdivision), interesting place, invisible, historic district
Home to a number of famous cafés, such as Les Deux Magots and Le Café de Flore, where artists, writers and philosophers would meet, Saint-Germain-des-Prés area used to be the center of gravity for surrealists painters and writers (André Breton especially) in the 1920s and 1930s, then headquarters of existentialists Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir in the 1950s and 1960s.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 48°51'17"N 2°20'1"E
- Latin Quarter 0.1 km
- Ile de la Cite 0.5 km
- Avenue des Champs-Élysées 3.5 km
- Canal Saint Martin 3.7 km
- Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris 3.7 km
- Père Lachaise Cemetery 4.1 km
- La Villette 6 km
- Bois de Boulogne 8.4 km
- Viry Chatillon Lake 21 km
- Disneyland Resort Paris 32 km
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés Church 0.1 km
- Félix-Desruelles Square 0.1 km
- Rue des Canettes 0.3 km
- House of Twilla aka Twilight 0.4 km
- Church of Saint Sulpice 0.4 km
- Golden Triangle 0.4 km
- City hall of the 6th arrondissement of Paris 0.5 km
- 6th arrondissement (Luxembourg) 0.6 km
- Latin Quarter 0.9 km
- 7th arrondissement (Palais de Bourbon) 1.6 km