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Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...

is encircled by the

Boulevard Périphérique The Boulevard Périphérique (), often called the Périph', is a controlled-access dual-carriageway ring road in Paris, France. With a few exceptions (see '' Structure and Layout''), it is situated along Paris's administrative limit. The sp ...

(Paris ring road), the city gates of Paris ("''portes de Paris''") are the access points to the city for pedestrians and other road users. As Paris has had successive ring roads through the centuries, city gates are found inside the modern-day

The city gates of today

''(List of city gates created during the extension of Paris in 1860 and which have left their mark on the city map. The gates are listed in clockwise sequence starting in the north at la Route Nationale 1.)''

North-east

18e est

Porte de la Chapelle Porte may refer to: *Sublime Porte, the central government of the Ottoman empire *Porte, Piedmont, a municipality in the Piedmont region of Italy *John Cyril Porte, British/Irish aviator *Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist who competes ...

route nationale 1 The Route nationale 1 is a trunk road ( nationale) in France between Paris and Calais. It is approximately long. Reclassification The majority of the original road has been superseded by the A16 autoroute. As a result, much of the road has no ...

, autoroute A1

19e

* Porte d'Aubervilliers : route nationale 301 * Porte de la Villette :

route nationale 2 The Route nationale 2 (N 2) is a route nationale in northern France. Route Paris-Soissons-Laon-La Capelle-''Belgium (N 6)'' History The N 2 was initially defined in 1811 as ''route impériale'' 2, running from Paris all the way to Amsterdam via ...

* Porte de Pantin :

route nationale 3 The Route nationale 3 is a trunk road ( nationale) in France connecting Paris to the frontier of Germany. Reclassification For the majority of its route the RN 3 runs parallel to the A4 autoroute. As a result, sections have been or are proposed to ...

* Porte Chaumont * Porte Brunet * Porte du Pré-Saint-Gervais * Porte des Lilas

East

20e

* Porte des Lilas * Porte de Ménilmontant * Porte de Bagnolet : autoroute A3 * Porte de Montreuil : route nationale 302

12e

Porte de Vincennes The Porte de Vincennes () is one of the city gates of Paris (France) situated in the Bel Air neighborhood of the 12th arrondissement. Location The Porte de Vincennes is located where the northeast corner of the 12th arrondissement meets the ...

: route nationale 34 * Porte Jaune * Porte de Saint-Mandé * Porte de Montempoivre * Porte Dorée or "Porte de Picpus" * Porte de Reuilly * Porte de Charenton :

route nationale 6 The Route nationale 6 is a trunk road ( nationale) in France between Paris and the frontier with Italy in the Alps. Reclassification The RN 6 runs parallel for a long portion of its route to the A 6 autoroute. As a result, portions of the roa ...

* Porte de Bercy : autoroute A4

South (
rive gauche The Rive Gauche (, ''Left Bank'') is the southern bank of the river Seine in Paris. Here the river flows roughly westward, cutting the city in two parts. When facing downstream, the southern bank is to the left, and the northern bank (or ''Rive D ...
)

13e

* Porte de la Gare * Porte de Vitry *

Porte d'Ivry Porte may refer to: *Sublime Porte, the central government of the Ottoman empire *Porte, Piedmont, a municipality in the Piedmont region of Italy *John Cyril Porte, British/Irish aviator *Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist who competes ...

* Porte de Choisy : route nationale 305 * Porte d'Italie :

route nationale 7 The Route nationale 7, or ''RN 7'', is a trunk road (Route Nationale (France), nationale) in France between Paris and the border with Italy. It was also known as ''Route des vacances'' (The Holiday Route), ''Route bleue'' (The Blue Route), and &md ...

* Poterne des Peupliers

14e

* Porte de Gentilly *

Porte d'Arcueil Porte may refer to: *Sublime Porte, the central government of the Ottoman empire *Porte, Piedmont, a municipality in the Piedmont region of Italy *John Cyril Porte, British/Irish aviator *Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist who competes ...

Porte d'Orléans The Porte d'Orléans is one of 17 ''portes'' (city gates of Paris) in the Thiers wall, a defensive wall constructed in the mid-nineteenth century to protect Paris. The wall was demolished after the First World War, creating an open space that wa ...

route nationale 20 The Route nationale 20 (N20) is a trunk road ( nationale) between Paris and the frontier with Spain heading south through the heart of France and passing through the Cathedral City of Orléans and Toulouse. The road forks at ''Col de Puymorens'' ...

* Porte de Montrouge * Porte de Châtillon * Porte Didot * Porte de Vanves

15e

* Porte Brancion * Porte de Plaisance * Porte de la Plaine * Porte de Versailles * Porte d'Issy * Porte de Sèvres

West

16e

* Porte du Point-du-Jour * Porte de Saint-Cloud : route nationale 10 * Porte Molitor * Porte de Boulogne * Porte de l'Hippodrome * Porte d'Auteuil : autoroute A13 * Porte de Passy * Porte de la Muette *

Porte Dauphine Porte may refer to: *Sublime Porte, the central government of the Ottoman empire * Porte, Piedmont, a municipality in the Piedmont region of Italy *John Cyril Porte, British/Irish aviator *Richie Porte Richard Julian Porte (born 30 January 198 ...

* Porte de la Seine * Porte de Madrid * Porte Saint-James * Porte de Neuilly * Porte des Sablons

North-west

17e

* Porte Maillot : route nationale 13 * Porte des Ternes * Porte de Villiers *

Porte de Champerret Porte may refer to: *Sublime Porte, the central government of the Ottoman empire *Porte, Piedmont, a municipality in the Piedmont region of Italy *John Cyril Porte, British/Irish aviator *Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist who competes ...

* Porte de Courcelles * Porte d'Asnières * Porte de Clichy * Porte Pouchet

18e

* Porte de Saint-Ouen * Porte de Montmartre *

Porte de Clignancourt Porte may refer to: *Sublime Porte, the central government of the Ottoman empire *Porte, Piedmont, a municipality in the Piedmont region of Italy *John Cyril Porte, British/Irish aviator *Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist who competes ...

: route nationale 14 * Porte des Poissonniers

Ancient gates of Paris

Porte Saint-Denis The Porte Saint-Denis ( en, St. Denis Gate) is a Parisian monument located in the 10th arrondissement, at the site of one of the gates of the Wall of Charles V, one of Paris' former city walls. It is located at the crossing of the Rue Saint-De ...

along the trace of the

enceinte Enceinte (from Latin incinctus: girdled, surrounded) is a French term that refers to the "main defensive enclosure of a fortification". For a castle, this is the main defensive line of wall towers and curtain walls enclosing the position. Fo ...

Charles V Charles V may refer to: * Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558) * Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain * Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise * Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690) * Infa ...

. *

Porte Saint-Martin The Porte Saint-Martin ( en, St. Martin Gate) is a Parisian monument located at the site of one of the gates of the now-destroyed fortifications of Paris. It is located at the crossing of Rue Saint-Martin, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin and the '' g ...

along the trace of the

. * Rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard * Rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques * Rue des Fossés-Saint-Marcel After the construction of the Wall of the Farmers-General in 1785, the gates of Paris bore the names barriers (''barrières'') until 1860 (e.g. ''barrière de la Villette, barrière du Trône, barrière d'Italie'', etc.) They were, in fact, toll gates used for collection of the ''

octroi Octroi (; fro, octroyer, to grant, authorize; Lat. ''auctor'') is a local tax collected on various articles brought into a district for consumption. Antiquity The word itself is of French origin. Octroi taxes have a respectable antiquity, bein ...

'', an

excise file:Lincoln Beer Stamp 1871.JPG, upright=1.2, 1871 U.S. Revenue stamp for 1/6 barrel of beer. Brewers would receive the stamp sheets, cut them into individual stamps, cancel them, and paste them over the Bunghole, bung of the beer barrel so when ...

tax assessed on goods entering the city. Some of the toll booths built by

Ledoux Ledoux or LeDoux is a surname, and may refer to: * Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806), French architect. * Abraham Ledoux (1784-1842) and Antoine Ledoux (1779 - 1849), two French brothers born in Québec, who became trappers and settled in Mora ...

remain at: * rotunda of the

Place de Stalingrad The Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad is a square in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. It was named after the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the major battles of World War II. The square lies at the intersection of the Canal de l'Ourcq and the Can ...

Place du Trône The Place de la Nation (formerly Place du Trône, subsequently Place du Trône-Renversé during the Revolution) is a circle on the eastern side of Paris, between Place de la Bastille and the Bois de Vincennes, on the border of the 11th and 12t ...

* Place Denfert-Rochereau (formerly ''barrière d'Enfer'')