Boulevard de Sébastopol
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ' N , 2 ° 21' E
Boulevard de Sébastopol | |
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location | |
Arrondissement | 1st arrondissement (Paris) , 2nd , 3rd , 4th |
Beginning | 12, avenue Victoria |
The End | 9, Boulevard Saint-Denis |
morphology | |
length | 1332 m |
width | 30 m |
history | |
Emergence | 1854 |
designation | 1855 |
Original names | Boulevard du Center |
Coding | |
Paris | 8525 |
The Boulevard de Sébastopol is a Parisian boulevard that separates the 1st from the 4th arrondissement and then the 2nd from the 3rd arrondissement .
It is 1,332 meters long and 30 meters wide, starts at Place du Châtelet , ends at Boulevard Saint-Denis and turns into Boulevard de Strasbourg . The Boulevard de Sébastopol is a one-way street out of town with one bus lane and three lanes for other traffic. He mainly crosses:
- the Rue de Rivoli - at this intersection was in 1922 the first three-color traffic light installed in Paris
- the rue Étienne Marcel / rue aux Ours
- the rue de Turbigo
- the rue Réaumur
Although there are a few restaurants and numerous boutiques on the Boulevard de Sébastopol, it is not a typical shopping street, in contrast to the Marais and the Quartier des Halles , which it separates.
history
The Boulevard de Sébastopol is one of the most important breakthroughs that Baron Haussmann had carried out for his urban planning work. It is one of the most important elements of the great north-south axis that cuts through the center of Paris, replacing above all the Rue Saint-Denis a few meters further west and the Rue Saint-Martin a few meters further east.
Completed in 1854, it was initially called Boulevard du Center. A few days after the victory of Napoleon III's troops . it was renamed on September 8, 1855 in the port of Sevastopol during the Crimean War .
For a few years the Boulevard de Sébastopol led over the Île de la Cité to the Rive Gauche and ended at the Rue de Cujas. The section on the left bank of the Seine was renamed Boulevard Saint-Michel in 1867 .
Web links
- Nomenclature officielle des voies de Paris ( Memento of January 22, 2001 in the Internet Archive )