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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
District guide · Paris
Paris 1er Arrondissement
389 places catalogued in Paris 1er Arrondissement so far.
Practical information
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
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Top things to see
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Musée de l'Orangerie 02 1 hr 15 minMusée 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…
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- Museum
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Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume 03 1 hr 15 minGalerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
The Jeu de Paume is a photography and moving-image gallery in the Tuileries Garden's north-west corner, in a building constructed in 1861 as a court for jeu de paume, the indoor precursor of tennis played by Napoleon III's court.
- Must see
- Museum
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs 04 1 hr 30 minMusée des Arts Décoratifs
- Must see
- Museum
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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain 05 1 hr 30 minFondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
- Must see
- Museum
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Bourse de commerce 06 1 hr 30 minBourse de commerce
- Must see
- Museum
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Musée de l'illusion 07 1 hr 30 minMusée de l'illusion
- High
- Museum
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Musée en Herbe 08 1 hr 30 minMusée en Herbe
- High
- Museum
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