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Paris 1er Arrondissement

A photograph of Paris 1er Arrondissement
Photograph · Cristian Bortes from Cluj-Napoca, Romania · CC BY 2.0

389 places catalogued in Paris 1er Arrondissement so far.

Practical information

Language spoken
French
English is understood in tourist districts and rarely outside them
Dialling code
+33 1
Paris and the Île-de-France; drop the leading 0 of 01 when calling from abroad
Currency
Euro (€, EUR)
Cards accepted almost everywhere; markets prefer cash
Emergency number
112
One number across the country; 15 reaches an ambulance directly
Plug type
Type C and E · 230 V
European two-pin; type E adds an earth pin in the socket
Tap water
Safe to drink
Held to the European drinking water directive

Planning a visit

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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. Sainte Chapelle
    02 45 min

    Sainte Chapelle

    Sainte-Chapelle is a reliquary the size of a building, and the relic cost more than three times what the building did.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  2. Tuileries Garden
    03 1 hour

    Tuileries Garden

    The Tuileries is the first royal garden in Europe that let the public in, and it has outlived the palace it was built for.

    • Must see
    • Nature site
  3. Conciergerie
    04 1 hr 15 min

    Conciergerie

    The Conciergerie was a royal palace before it was a prison, and the prison is what everyone remembers.

    • Must see
    • Museum
  4. Louvre Pyramid
    05 20 min

    Louvre Pyramid

    The Louvre Pyramid is the glass entrance structure built in the museum's main courtyard in the 1980s, and it is a part of the Louvre — its main entrance and one of the more argued-over additions to central Paris …

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  5. Palais-Royal
    06 45 min

    Palais-Royal

    The Palais-Royal was a cardinal's house that became Europe's first shopping centre and then the place the Revolution started.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  6. place Vendôme
    07 20 min

    place Vendôme

    Place Vendôme is an octagon of uniform stone façades built as a single architectural composition, not a collection of separate buildings that happened to end up on the same square.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  7. Pont Neuf
    08 20 min

    Pont Neuf

    The Pont Neuf is the New Bridge and it is the oldest standing bridge in Paris, which has been the joke about it for four hundred years.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument
  8. Musée de l'Orangerie
    09 1 hr 15 min

    Musée de l'Orangerie

    The Musee de l'Orangerie sits at the western end of the Tuileries Garden, in a building put up in 1852 under Napoleon III to overwinter the garden's orange trees, a purely functional greenhouse rather than a building meant to be…

    • Must see
    • Museum
  9. arc de triomphe du Carrousel
    10 15 min

    arc de triomphe du Carrousel

    The Arc de triomphe du Carrousel stands in the Cour Napoleon, between the Louvre's wings and I. M.

    • Must see
    • Historic monument

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikidata ·