Covered passages of Paris
The Covered Passage of Paris (French: Passages couverts de Paris) are an early form of shopping arcade built in Paris, France primarily during the first half of the 19th Century. By the 1850s there were approximately 150 covered passages in Paris but this decreased greatly as a result of Haussmann's renovation of Paris. Only a couple of dozen passages remain in the 21st Century, all on the Right Bank.[1] The common characteristics of the covered passages are that they are: pedestrianised; glass-ceilings; artificially illuminated at night (initially with gas lamps); privately owned; highly ornamented and decorated; lined with small shops on the ground floor; connecting two streets. Originally, to keep the passages clean, each would have an artiste de décrottage (a shit-removal artist) at the entrance to clean the shoes of visitors.
The passages were the subject of Walter Benjamin's incomplete magnum-opus Passagenwerk (Arcades Project) which was posthumously published.
List of currently accessible passages
The following table lists the covered passages that still exist and remain accessible to the public.
Arrondissement |
Name |
Date |
Entrance |
Hours |
Heritage listing |
Length |
Image |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Passage des Deux-Pavillons |
|
Mérimée | 33m | |||
1 | Galerie Véro-Dodat | 1826 |
|
Monday-Saturday (except public holidays) 0700-2200 | Mérimée | 80m | |
2 | Passage Ben-Aïad | 1826 |
|
Closed to the public | Mérimée | 90m | |
2 | Passage du Bourg-l'Abbé | 1828 |
|
Monday-Saturday 0700-1900 | Mérimée | 47m | |
2 | Passage du Caire | 1798 |
|
Monday-Friday 0700-1800 | 360m | ||
2 | Passage Choiseul | 1829 |
|
Mérimée | 190m | ||
2 | Galerie Colbert | 1826 |
|
Mérimée | 83m | ||
2 | Passage du Grand-Cerf | 1825 |
|
Monday-Saturday 0800 - 2000 | Mérimée | 117m | |
2 | Passage des Panoramas | 1800 |
|
0600-2400 | Mérimée | 133m | |
2 | Passage du Ponceau | 1826 | Monday-Friday 8-9 | 92m | |||
2 | Passage des Princes | 1860 | Monday-Saturday 0800 - 2000 | Mérimée | 80m | ||
2 | Passage Sainte-Anne |
|
Mérimée | 47m | |||
2 | Galerie Vivienne | 1823 |
|
0800 - 2000 | Mérimée | 176m | |
3 | Passage Molière |
|
Mérimée | 46m | |||
3 | Passage Vendôme | 1827 |
|
|
Mérimée | 57m | |
6 | Cour du Commerce-Saint-André | 1776 |
|
Mérimée | 120m | ||
8 | Cité Berryer |
|
Mérimée | 95m | |||
8 | Arcades du Lido | 1926 |
|
m | |||
8 | Galerie de la Madeleine | 1845 |
|
Monday-Saturday (except public holidays) 0800-1900 | Mérimée | 53m | |
8 | Passage Puteaux | 1839 |
|
Monday-Friday 0700 - 2400 | 29m | ||
9 | Passage du Havre | 1845 |
|
115m | |||
9 | Passage Jouffroy | 1845 |
|
0700 - 2100 | Mérimée | 140m | |
9 | Passage Verdeau | 1847 |
|
|
Mérimée | 75m | |
10 | Passage Brady | 1828 |
|
Mérimée | 216m | ||
10 | Passage du Prado | 1830 |
|
0900 - 1900 | 120m |
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Covered passages of Paris. |
- ↑ "The covered passages in Paris". Paris.fr. Marie de Paris. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
External links
- "Paris's top 10 hidden shopping passages". The Guardian.
- "Le charme parisien des passages couverts". ParisInfo (in French).