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Montmartre
Montmartre is the hill district of Paris's 18th arrondissement, a commune until its 1860 annexation, birthplace of the 1871 Paris Commune, site of Sacré-Cœur, and historic home of artists and cabarets.
Montparnasse
Montparnasse, a Left Bank Paris quarter around Boulevard du Montparnasse and Gare Montparnasse, famed for its 1920s artist community (Modigliani, Kiki de Montparnasse), the 209-meter Tour Montparnasse, and its large cemetery.
Néa Smýrni
Néa Smýrni (Νέα Σμύρνη, New Smyrna), a municipality and southern suburb of Athens, Greece, founded in the 1920s as an urban refugee settlement for Greeks from Smyrna after the 1922 catastrophe; 73,076 residents (2011), 3.52 km².
New Belgrade
New Belgrade (Novi Beograd, Нови Београд) is Belgrade's planned left-bank municipality, begun 11 April 1948 on drained marshland as socialist Yugoslavia's showcase capital, known for numbered modernist and brutalist blocks and its protected Central Zone.
New Town, Prague
The New Town of Prague (Nové Město pražské) is the largest historical town of Prague, founded by Emperor Charles IV in 1348 as a planned extension of the capital.
Nikaia, Attica
Nikaia (Νίκαια), formerly Nea Kokkinia, a suburb of Piraeus in southwestern Athens, Greece; refugee settlement founded 1923, renamed 1940, seat of the Municipality of Nikaia-Agios Ioannis Rentis with about 103,000 residents.
Nowa Huta
Nowa Huta, a district of Kraków, Poland, built from 1949 as a model socialist-realist city beside the Lenin (now ArcelorMittal) steelworks; absorbed into Kraków in 1951, a Solidarity stronghold in the 1980s, a Monument of History since 2023.
Ostia (Rome)
Ostia, also known as Lido di Ostia, is Rome's seaside district on the Tyrrhenian Sea at the Tiber's mouth, near the ancient ruins of Ostia Antica.
Paris 02 Ancien - Quartier Chaussée-d'Antin
Paris 02 Ancien - Quartier Chaussée-d'Antin: quarter no. 5 of the old 2nd arrondissement of Paris (1795-1860), named for the rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin; formerly the section de la Grange-Batelière, Mirabeau, and Mont-Blanc; now the 34th administrative quarter in the 9e arrondissement.
Paris 11 Popincourt
Paris 11 Popincourt (INSEE 75111) is the 11th arrondissement of Paris, between République, Bastille, and Nation. Densest arrondissement at 37,648.5 inhabitants per km², 138,170 residents in 2023, four quarters, faubourg and Commune history.
Paris 12 Reuilly
Paris 12 Reuilly is the official name of the 12th municipal arrondissement of Paris, created in 1860 and named after a former village on the city's eastern side.
Paris 14 Observatoire
Paris 14 Observatoire (14e arrondissement de Paris, INSEE code 75114) is a Left Bank municipal district of Paris named for the Paris Observatory of 1667; 136,455 residents in 2023, Montparnasse artist heritage, Saint-Vincent-de-Paul eco-district under construction.
Paris 15 Vaugirard
Paris 15 Vaugirard (Arrondissement de Vaugirard), Insee code 75115, is Paris's largest and most populous arrondissement, created in 1860 from Vaugirard and Grenelle, with 229,713 inhabitants in 2023 and quarters Saint-Lambert, Necker, Grenelle, and Javel.
Paris 16 Passy
Paris 16 Passy: former independent commune of the Seine department, annexed to Paris 1 January 1860 with 10 others; now a village-like quarter of the 16th arrondissement known for rue de Passy shopping, its covered market, Maison de Balzac, and Cimetière de Passy.
Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre
Paris 18 Buttes-Montmartre, officially named Butte-Montmartre, is the 18th arrondissement of Paris, on the city's north side, containing Montmartre hill, the Sacré-Cœur basilica, Pigalle, and the Moulin Rouge, with about 186,000 inhabitants.
Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont
Paris 19 Buttes-Chaumont (19e arrondissement), created 1859 from annexed Belleville and La Villette; home to Parc des Buttes-Chaumont (1867), Parc de la Villette, Canal de l'Ourcq, Philharmonie, and Paris's most affordable housing market.
Paris 20 Ménilmontant
Paris 20 Ménilmontant: hillside quarter of the 20th arrondissement, also called Ménilmuche, a former hamlet annexed in 1860, now a bohemian, arty district with median apartment prices around 8,476 euros per square meter.
Peristéri
Peristeri (Περιστέρι), municipality in West Athens, Greece, 4.5 km northwest of the city center, 10.05 km²; detached from Athens in 1934, largest West Athens municipality, three metro stations, mayor Andreas Pachatouridis since 2003.
Piazza del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo, Rome's monumental northern gateway square at the Tridente of via del Babuino, via di Ripetta, and via del Corso, with the Flaminio obelisk, twin baroque churches, Santa Maria del Popolo, and Valadier's neoclassical elliptical redesign.
Piazza Navona
Piazza Navona (Piazza Navona, Rome) is a Baroque square built on the Stadium of Domitian of 86 AD, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers (1648-1651), Borromini's Sant'Agnese in Agone, and three fountains.
Plagwitz
Plagwitz is a western district of Leipzig, Germany, once Germany's first planned large-scale industrial area shaped by Karl Heine and the 3.3 km Karl-Heine-Kanal, now a gentrified quarter of about 17,000 residents with the Spinnerei arts complex.
Potsdamer Platz
Potsdamer Platz, Berlin square and district named for the Potsdamer Tor; 1920s Europe's busiest junction with its first traffic light, cut by the Berlin Wall, rebuilt from 1994 by Renzo Piano, Helmut Jahn, and others.
Praga Południe
Praga Południe, Polish for "Praga South," is a district of Warsaw on the right bank of the Vistula with about 186,000 residents, including Saska Kępa, Grochów, and Gocław.
Quartier asiatique
Quartier asiatique, or Triangle de Choisy, is Paris's largest Asian district in the 13th arrondissement, formed after 1975 by Indochinese refugees; distinct from Belleville and Arts-et-Métiers quarters.
Reeperbahn
The Reeperbahn is a roughly 930-meter street in Hamburg's St. Pauli district, the city's entertainment and red-light district, where the Beatles launched their career at the Star-Club in 1962.
Rocafonda
Rocafonda is a dense working-class neighborhood of northeast Mataró, Catalonia, built from 1960s Spanish internal migration and later Moroccan immigration; known for Lamine Yamal's '304' postal-code celebration and the city's lowest socioeconomic index.
Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a Left Bank quarter of Paris's 6th arrondissement around a 6th-century abbey church, known for its literary cafés, art galleries, restored church decor, redeveloped square, and luxury retail.
Schipperskwartier
Schipperskwartier (Skippers' Quarter) is Antwerp's historic red light district near the old port. Since the 1999 policy, window prostitution is confined to three streets, with about 300 windows and urban renewal from 2000 to 2007.
Schöneberg
Schöneberg is a district of southwestern Berlin in the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, an independent town from 1898 to 1920, known for the Rathaus where Kennedy gave his 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech.
Södermalm
Södermalm (Söder) is a central Stockholm island district, once a poor working-class area, now known for vintage shops, SoFo, nightlife, Tantolunden park, the 1680 City Museum building, and documented gentrification.