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Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower was built to stand for twenty years and be taken down.
- Must see
- Historic monument
District guide · Paris
Paris 7e Arrondissement
285 places catalogued in Paris 7e 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 d'Orsay 02 3 hoursMusée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay is a railway station that outlived its trains. The Gare d'Orsay was built between 1898 and 1900 on the Left Bank for the Exposition Universelle, by Lucien Magne, Émile Bénard and Victor Laloux, in full Beaux-Arts dress.
- Must see
- Museum
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Seine river cruise from the Eiffel Tower 03 1 hourSeine river cruise from the Eiffel Tower
An hour on the Seine is the one piece of organised sightseeing in Paris that earns its place in a self-planned trip.
- Must see
- Activity
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Champ de Mars 04 45 minChamp de Mars
The Champ de Mars is a parade ground that became a lawn, and the Eiffel Tower stands at one end of it.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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National Assembly 05 1 hr 30 minNational Assembly
The Palais Bourbon is where the National Assembly, the lower house of the French parliament, has sat since the Revolution turned a princess's private mansion into the seat of the republic's elected chamber.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Les Invalides 06 2 hr 30 minLes Invalides
Les Invalides was built to house disabled soldiers and ended up housing Napoleon. Louis XIV ordered it on 24 November 1670; Libéral Bruant and Jules Hardouin-Mansart designed it, and it was completed in 1706.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Musée Rodin 07 2 hoursMusée Rodin
The Musee Rodin occupies the Hotel Biron, an eighteenth-century mansion on Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement that had already passed through use as a convent school before the state let it out cheaply as artists' studios in the…
- Must see
- Museum
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Musée du quai Branly 08 2 hoursMusée du quai Branly
The Musee du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac gathers non-Western art and material culture from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas under one roof, a collection that had previously been split between the ethnographic Musee de l'Homme and the Musee…
- Must see
- Museum
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Hôtel Matignon 09 1 hourHôtel Matignon
The Hotel Matignon is the official residence and working office of the French Prime Minister, on the Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement, and it is not open to the public in any ordinary sense — this is a…
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Palais Bourbon 10 1 hr 30 minPalais Bourbon
The Palais Bourbon, on the Left Bank facing Place de la Concorde across the Seine, is the seat of the French National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament — a working legislature, not a former palace turned museum.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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