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Panthéon
The Panthéon was built as a church and finished just in time to stop being one.
- Must see
- Historic monument
District guide · Paris
Paris 5e Arrondissement
629 places catalogued in Paris 5e 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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Grand Mosque of Paris 02 45 minGrand Mosque of Paris
The Grand Mosque of Paris opened in 1926 as France's thanks to its Muslim soldiers, and it remains the city's central mosque a century later.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne 03 1 hourUniversity of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Behind the gate at Place de la Sorbonne sits a university with a name older than most nations: Robert de Sorbon founded a theology college here in 1257 under the patronage of Louis IX, and the word "Sorbonne" has meant…
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Shakespeare and Company 04 45 minShakespeare and Company
Shakespeare and Company is an independent English-language bookshop at 37 rue de la Bûcherie on the Left Bank, facing Notre-Dame across the Seine.
- Must see
- Market
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Jardin des plantes 05 1 hr 15 minJardin des plantes
The Jardin des plantes is Paris's main botanical garden and the founding site of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, on the Left Bank in the 5th arrondissement, between the Seine and the Austerlitz rail yards.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Arènes de Lutèce 06 30 minArènes de Lutèce
Arenes de Lutece is the surviving Roman amphitheatre of Lutetia, built in the 1st century AD on the slope of what is now the 5th arrondissement, and it once seated an estimated 15,000 people for gladiator contests and theatre.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Musée de Cluny 07 1 hr 30 minMusée de Cluny
Musee de Cluny — formally the Musee national du Moyen Age — occupies the Hotel de Cluny, a late-15th-century mansion built around 1485-1500 for the Abbots of Cluny as their Paris residence, in the Latin Quarter.
- Must see
- Museum
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Muséum national d'histoire naturelle 08 2 hoursMuséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Museum national d'histoire naturelle is France's national natural history museum, founded in 1793 out of the royal Jardin du Roi, and it occupies several linked sites across the Jardin des Plantes in the 5th arrondissement.
- Must see
- Museum
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Arab World Institute 09 1 hr 30 minArab World Institute
- Must see
- Museum
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Musée Curie 10 1 hr 30 minMusée Curie
- Must see
- Museum
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