Temple

Temple [tɑ̃pl(ə)] is the designation both for the order's precinct La Ville Neuve du Temple, at the time lying outside Paris, in which the Templars settled after the fall of Acre in 1291, and for the keep built there, the Tour du Temple, in which under Philip the Fair the French state treasury was stored and where later a prison called the Temple arose. The name finally passed to the 3rd arrondissement, in whose area the order's precinct lay. Nothing of the buildings has survived.

Machine-translated from “Temple (Paris)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Temple ranks #529 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #48 of the 524 mapped in France. Founded 1240, it is older than 73% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 860 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 12,966 times in the last 60 days, more than 95% of the atlas. 38 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Paris, 1 km away. See how France compares in the castle statistics.

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