Bastille
is really Place de la Bastille, Paris, Île-de-France
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
The fortress prison on the eastern edge of Paris, stormed by the crowd at the start of the Revolution.
The real place
The Bastille was stormed on 14 July 1789 and pulled down within months. Nothing of it stands on the square today; the July Column in the middle commemorates a later revolution, of 1830. A line of paving stones marks the outline of the old towers.
Visiting
Some foundations of one tower were moved to the Square Henri-Galli nearby, a few minutes' walk towards the Seine.
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