| Forum des halles :
Beneath this lies the underground station Chatelet-Les-Halles, central hub of Paris's express metro system, the RER. Les Halles
was the central Market in Paris. In 1183, King Philippe
II Auguste
enlarged the marketplace in Paris and built
a shelter for the merchants, who came from all over to sell
their wares. Known as Les Halles, for almost 700
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Les Halles is an area of Paris, located in the 1er arrondissement.
It is named for the large central wholesale marketplace, which
was demolished in 1971, to be replaced with an underground
modern shopping precinct, the Forum des Halles. Special is
that the open air center area is below street level, like a
pit.