Location from The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Walt Disney Animation Studios
The medieval city below the tower — cobblestoned, crowded, and beautiful from above, terrifying when Frollo decides to burn it.
The streets are where the film's central conflict plays out — the Roma move through them freely when they can, invisibly when they must. Esmeralda performs here. Quasimodo sees it from above and builds it in miniature. Frollo seizes it and demands it surrender its hidden people. The streets also witness Quasimodo's first descent from the tower, his moment of being crowned King of Fools, and the terror that follows when the crowd turns on him. Paris is not inherently cruel — it is manipulable, which is almost the same thing.
Paris in 1482 is a dense warren of narrow streets, half-timbered houses leaning toward each other over the cobbles, market stalls and taverns and churches pressed together without plan. The Festival of Fools transforms it: colored banners strung between buildings, stages erected in squares, crowds filling every alley with noise and color and fire-eaters and jugglers. On an ordinary day, it smells of fish and horse and bread. During Frollo's purge, it smells of burning.
Also known as: Paris, The City, Festival Grounds