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The Quartier Latin is located in the fifth and sixth arrondissement of Paris. Its boundaries begin at Saint-Germain des Pres and finishing at the Luxembourg Gardens. It is on the left bank of the Seine and is under the influence of the Sorbonne.

Since the thirteenth century, the Latin Quarter is the stronghold of the university and schools in Paris.

It is in the Latin Quarter that we can found the most of historic monuments and museums together in one place, as the Museum of the Arab world, the Cluny Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the Botanical Garden, the Pantheon (on Mount Sainte Genevieve), the Place des Grands Hommes (indeed, this is where all the great French thinkers like Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and Malraux are buried), the Fontaine de Medicis and the Jardin du Luxembourg with its magnificent parks adorned with lovely statues. The churches also are numerous, the film Da Vinci Code has been filmed at the Eglise Saint-Sulpice in the Latin Quarter. Before the church is the Fountain of the Four Bishops. All these monuments make that this neighborhood is highly sought after by tourists.

The Latin Quarter has many places that well worth a visit. To name a few: the boulevard and the Place Saint-Michel and the surrounding streets, the Gallo-Roman thermal baths, the Rue Mouffetard and the Place de la Contrescarpe, particularly picturesque, the Arena of Lutece, the Mosque of Paris and the Institut du Monde Arabe, the Val de Grace, the Palace (Senate) and of course, the district of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, where is the oldest café in Paris, "Le Procope, founded in 1689.