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Luxembourg Palace
The Luxembourg Palace is the French Senate, and it was built because a widowed queen was homesick for Florence.
- Must see
- Historic monument
District guide · Paris
Paris 6e Arrondissement
446 places catalogued in Paris 6e 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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Jardin du Luxembourg 02 1 hourJardin du Luxembourg
The Jardin du Luxembourg is a 23-hectare formal garden on the Left Bank, laid out from 1612 for a queen who wanted a Florentine garden in Paris and built by the French Senate, which still owns the palace at its…
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Académie de la Grande Chaumière 03 45 minAcadémie de la Grande Chaumière
Academie de la Grande Chaumiere is an art school founded in 1904 by the Catalan painter Claudio Castelucho on the street of the same name in Montparnasse, near the older Academie Colarossi, and it became a defining institution of the…
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Medici Fountain 04 45 minMedici Fountain
- Must see
- Historic monument
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fontaine Saint-Michel 05 45 minfontaine Saint-Michel
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice 06 45 minGnomon of Saint-Sulpice
- High
- Historic monument
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Hôtel de Choiseul-Praslin 07 45 minHôtel de Choiseul-Praslin
- High
- Historic monument
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26 rue Vavin 08 45 min26 rue Vavin
- High
- Historic monument
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Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Anges 09 45 minChapelle Notre-Dame-des-Anges
- High
- Historic monument
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Enceinte of Philippe-Auguste 10 45 minEnceinte of Philippe-Auguste
- High
- Historic monument
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