Square Salvador Allende

Square Salvador Allende features a central, raised concrete fountain basin that sits quiet for most of the year. It serves as the primary outdoor gathering space for the surrounding housing complex, designed in the late twentieth century to bring light and open space into this dense pocket of Clichy. Salvador Allende, the Chilean president ousted in the nineteen seventy-three coup, lends his name to the park, a choice made by local officials to anchor the neighborhood in twentieth-century political history.