Latin Quarter
Left Bank neighborhood
A Latin Quarter is a district in a city historically associated with students, artists, and intellectuals—named for the Latin once spoken by university scholars.
The original is in Paris, centered around the Sorbonne, known for its bohemian cafés, bookshops, and narrow streets.
Other cities use the term for similar neighborhoods with academic or artistic character.
- SorbonneFamous Parisian academic institution
- student lifeExperience of attending school
- ParisFrance's chief city
- Notre-Dame CathedralMedieval Parisian basilica
- universityHigher education institution
bookshops · medieval studies · medieval streets · pedestrian streets · scholasticism · rhetoric · philosophy · intellectual life · Île de la Cité · poetry · bohemianism · scholar · Seine River · Charles Baudelaire · cobblestones · theology · bistros · literature
- European NeighborhoodsMontmartre, San Marco, Notting Hill, Covent Garden, South Bank
- Paris AreasMontmartre, Belleville, Bastille, Montparnasse, Saint-Germain
- Historic DistrictsFrench Quarter, historic district, historic buildings, historic building, historic architecture
- neighborhoodsneighborhood, suburb, subdivision, Greenwich Village, East Village
- ParisEiffel Tower, Louvre, Notre-Dame, Seine, Montmartre
- Belle EpoqueMoulin Rouge, cancan, can-can, absinthe, Art Nouveau
Latin Quarterfinancial district
Commercial banking hub area
Wall Street · business district · commercial district · Beverly Hills · Upper East Side