Château de Vincennes
Château de Vincennes is a medieval fortress with the tallest surviving keep of any in Europe, built to keep a king safe rather than to look like a palace.
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Château de Vincennes is a medieval fortress with the tallest surviving keep of any in Europe, built to keep a king safe rather than to look like a palace.
The Coulée verte René-Dumont is a footpath laid along the top of a disused railway viaduct — a park built above the street rather than beside it.
At roughly 995 hectares, the Bois de Vincennes is the largest public park inside Paris, wrapping the eastern edge of the 12th arrondissement.
Opéra Bastille opened on 13 July 1989, timed to the bicentenary of the storming of the Bastille prison, on the footprint of the old Bastille railway station at Place de la Bastille.
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