Saint-Michel: history and sights
Served by: metro line 4.
Did you know?
In the heart of the Latin Quarter, near the Sorbonne and Notre-Dame, this station serves one of the historic hubs of Parisian student and intellectual life since the Middle Ages. Its bookshops and arthouse cinemas still carry on that scholarly, bohemian tradition.
Anecdote
The famous Saint-Michel fountain right above depicts Saint Michael defeating the devil.
Around Saint-Michel
- Fontaine Saint-Michel, 40 m away — A monumental fountain carved in 1860, depicting Saint Michael slaying the devil, an iconic meeting point in the Latin Quarter.
- Musée de Cluny, 300 m away — The national museum of the Middle Ages, in a 15th-century mansion, home to the famous Lady and the Unicorn tapestries.
- Square Viviani, 300 m away — A small square home to the oldest tree in Paris, planted in 1602, with a view of Notre-Dame from the Left Bank.