page_title: Squares in Paris
section_title: Squares and places
hierarchical_section_title: Squares in Paris / Squares and places
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Square Jean XXIII., Paris, France Čeština: památník papeži Janu XXIII., Paříž, Francie
context_page_description: Paris is known as the City of Light. Part of the credit for this sobriquet can be ascribed to long-standing city ordinances that have restricted the height of buildings in the central city. A more modest skyline, interrupted only by the Eiffel Tower, the Tour Montparnasse, Sacré-Coeur, and a few church steeples, lends this city's citizens virtually unfettered access to natural light. Nonetheless, another significant contributor to the feeling of openness in Paris is the vast number of public spaces, both green and paved, interspersed throughout all twenty arrondissements, that afford the citizen the opportunity to escape, if only momentarily, his urban environment and partake of air and light like his cousins in the provinces. The following article concern the public spaces known as squares and places in Paris.
context_section_description: To make things a bit more complicated, in Paris, a "square" (small green space) may abut a place (large public square), or a "square" may, in fact, be contained within a place.  The "square" and the associated place typically have different names.  Some examples are:   
  Square des Innocents and Place Joachim du Bellay
  Square Marcel Pagnol and Place Henri Bergson
  Square des Batignolles and Place Charles Fillion
  Square Berlioz and Place Adolphe Max
  Square de la Trinité and Place d'Estienne-d'Orves
  Square Saint-Vincent-de-Paul and Place Franz Liszt
  Square Monseigneur Maillet and Place des Fêtes
  Square Thomas Jefferson and Place des États-Unis
  Rarely, the "square" and its associated place share a name:
  Square Ferdinand Brunot and Place Ferdinand Brunot
  Square de la Chapelle and Place de la Chapelle
  Finally, there are some pairs (of squares and places) where the name of the square is a bit artificial, but the relationship is, nonetheless, clear:
  Square de la place André-Masson
  Square de la place Dauphine
  Square de la place de Bitche
  Square de la place de la Bataille de Stalingrad
  Square de la place de la Nation
  Square de la place de la Réunion
  Square de la place d'Italie
  Square de la place du Commerce
  Square de la place Étienne Pernet
  Square de la place Pasdeloup
caption: Pope John XXIII Square, Paris
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