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The Arc de Triomphe stands on the Place Charles de Gaulle, where twelve avenues meet. Napoleon commissioned the monument in 1806. Its reliefs and inscriptions comme…
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The banks of the Seine in Paris form a site that has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1991. The site includes bridges, quays, islands and monuments on b…
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The Catacombs of Paris are an underground ossuary. They hold the remains of more than six million people. The ossuary was created in former stone quarries. It occup…
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The Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie is a science museum. It is in the Parc de la Villette in Paris. It opened in 1986. The submarine Argonaute is among its attr…
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The Conciergerie occupies part of the former Palais de la Cité in Paris. It preserves medieval halls and spaces from its time as a prison, where Marie Antoinette wa…
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The Eiffel Tower stands on the Champ de Mars in Paris. The engineer Gustave Eiffel’s company built it between 1887 and 1889 for the Universal Exposition celebrating…
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The Grand Palais was built for the 1900 World’s Fair, between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine. Its stone facades and glass roof belong to a complex designed for ar…
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The Jardin des Plantes is a botanical garden in Paris. It is in the fifth arrondissement, on the left bank of the Seine. It is home to the National Museum of Natura…
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Le Marais is a historic neighbourhood on the Right Bank of the Seine. It covers parts of the third and fourth districts of Paris. It was an aristocratic area and re…
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Les Invalides is a group of buildings in the seventh district of Paris. It was created as a residence and hospital for military veterans. It houses museums and Napo…
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The Louvre Museum in Paris occupies a former royal palace. It is France’s national museum of fine art, archaeology and decorative arts. It opened in 1793 during the…
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The Luxembourg Garden is in the sixth arrondissement of Paris. It belongs to the French Senate, which meets in the Luxembourg Palace. Its features include the Medic…
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Montmartre is a hill in the eighteenth district, in northern Paris. It is known for its artistic history and its nightlife venues. The Basilica of the Sacred Heart…
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The Musée de l’Orangerie occupies the western end of the Tuileries Garden beside the Place de la Concorde. It houses eight large Water Lilies paintings by Claude Mo…
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The Musée d’Orsay stands on the left bank of the Seine in a railway station built between 1898 and 1900. It opened as a museum in 1986. Its collections include pain…
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Notre-Dame Cathedral stands on the Île de la Cité and is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It is a Gothic Catholic cathedral with two towers on its western façade. Afte…
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The Palais Garnier is a theatre on the Place de l’Opéra, in the ninth district of Paris. It was built for the Paris Opera between 1861 and 1875 on the orders of Nap…
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The Panthéon is a neoclassical monument in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in the Latin Quarter. Jacques-Germain Soufflot design…
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Père Lachaise Cemetery is in the twentieth arrondissement of Paris. It opened in 1804. The architect was Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. It is still a working cemete…
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The Petit Palais was built for the 1900 World’s Fair. It is the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts. Charles Girault designed the building, which stands opposite the…
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The Rodin Museum in Paris opened in 1919 in the Hôtel Biron. It holds sculptures, drawings, photographs and works from the artist’s collection. Pieces such as The T…
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The Sacré-Cœur Basilica is a Catholic church at the top of Montmartre in Paris. Paul Abadie designed the building with Romanesque and Byzantine influences. Construc…
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Louis the Ninth commissioned the Sainte-Chapelle within the royal palace on the Île de la Cité to house relics of the Passion of Christ, including the Crown of Thor…
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The Tuileries Garden is a public garden between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde in the first arrondissement of Paris. Catherine de’ Medici created it in 156…
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