Place de la Bastille

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  • Address
    Place de la Bastille, 11e
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Bastille

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Lonely Planet review

Nothing remains of the former prison that was mobbed on 14 July 1789, igniting the French Revolution, but you can't miss the 52m green-bronze column topped by a gilded, winged Liberty. Revolutionaries from the uprising of 1830 are buried beneath. Now a skirmishly busy roundabout, the place is still Paris' most symbolic destination for traffic-stopping political protest marches.