Is the Spanish Quarter in Paris the same as the Latin Quarter?

Factual Questions
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Hi

Is the Spanish Quarter in Paris the same as the Latin Quarter?

davidmich

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I have never heard of anything called “The Spanish Quarter” in Paris and the only Google hits for “quartier espagnol” is in Naples.

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I don’t think Paris has a Spanish quarter.

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Are these references to Spanish Quarter a mistake?

http://www.yessy.com/artdea/index.html?i=18025

dvidmich

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I would think so, unless there is some obscure part of the town that is referred to as the Spanish Quarter/Quartier Espagnol.

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may be thinking of the gothic quarter in barcelona spain?

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Must be a French translation into English of Latin Quarter gone wrong – it happens.

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The second picture is of Rue de la Harpe/Rue St-Séverin which is definitely at the heart of the Latin Quarter.

Google Maps link

Not too sure about the first pic - could be the Marché aux Fleurs, which is near Notre-Dame, but there are plenty of markets in the Latin Quarter.

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Thanks everyone. Very helpful.
davidmich

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What are the other three quarters of Paris called?

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Paris. The rest are pretty much just the various arrondissements of the city, although there are some notorious neighborhoods like Pigalle or Pont Neuf.

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Speakers of American English sometimes conflate Spanish, Hispanic and Latin. So my guess is that “Spanish Quarter”, in this context, is a mistranslation or misrecollection by a user of American English of the Latin Quarter.

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True, the other three quarters of Paris are French quarters

The fourth which was supplanted by the Latin Quarter can be found in New Orleans’ French Quarter

Googling on, we find the New Orleans Quarter(back)

and then on to the Drew Quarter

ETA - if you find Latins in the Latin Quarter, what happens when you go to headquarters?

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Also Montmartre, la Goutte d’Or, le Marais, la Bastille, les Halles… but now that I think on it, I think le Quartier Latin is the only one “officially” dubbed Quartier, when the others can be called “quartier Something” in speech (quartier simply meaning neighbourhood or block in this usage) but are usually just called “Something”.

There’s no Spanish quarter, BTW. And there’s no Latin -> Latino -> Spanish folk etymology to excuse the mistake either - the Quartier Latin is called that because it’s where all the prestigious historical universities are sited, and of course back in the day Latin was the language of the learned.

Administratively however there are apparently 80 official *quartiers *in Paris, 4 to an arrondissement. So come visit, people. Where other famous cities give you just the one town to stroll through, Paris boasts as much content as 20 regular cities, all for the price of one ! Regrettably, such concentrations are passed down to the consumer in the form of the price of one small cup of coffee, which could get you 20 tall mugs anywhere else.