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Île de la Cité
The Île de la Cité is an island in the Seine in the centre of Paris and the oldest core of the city. It is thought to have formed part of Lutetia, the town of the Parisii, and in the Middle Ages it held the royal palace and the cathedral of Notre-Dame, begun in 1163. The Pillar of the Boatmen, a Gallo-Roman monument dedicated to Jupiter under Tiberius, was found beneath the cathedral in 1711.
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