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Louvre Museum
The Louvre is the most-visited art museum on earth and it was a fortress before it was anything else.
- 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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Sainte Chapelle 02 45 minSainte 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
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Conciergerie 03 1 hr 15 minConciergerie
The Conciergerie was a royal palace before it was a prison, and the prison is what everyone remembers.
- Must see
- Museum
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Louvre Pyramid 04 20 minLouvre 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
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Palais-Royal 05 45 minPalais-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
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place Vendôme 06 20 minplace 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
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Pont Neuf 07 20 minPont 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
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Musée de l'Orangerie 08 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…
- Must see
- Museum
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arc de triomphe du Carrousel 09 15 minarc 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
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Louvre Palace 10 3 hoursLouvre Palace
The Louvre Palace is the building itself: the fortress-turned-royal-residence that the Musee du Louvre now occupies.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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