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avenue des Champs-Élysées
The Champs-Élysées is 1.91 km long, 70 m wide, and it is a garden path that became a shopping street.
- Must see
- Historic monument
District guide · Paris
Paris 8e Arrondissement
324 places catalogued in Paris 8e 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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avenue des Champs-Élysées -
Élysée Palace 02 1 hr 30 minÉlysée Palace
The Élysée Palace is where the President of France lives and works, and it is closed to visitors for all but one weekend a year.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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place de la Concorde 03 20 minplace de la Concorde
The Place de la Concorde is a 7.6-hectare traffic island that was once the busiest execution ground in Europe. It is the largest public square in Paris.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Grand Palais 04 2 hoursGrand Palais
The Grand Palais is a glass hall built for a world's fair and never demolished. Construction began in 1897 after the Palais de l'Industrie was pulled down, and it opened on 1 May 1900 for the Exposition Universelle.
- Must see
- Museum
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Petit Palais 05 1 hr 30 minPetit Palais
The Petit Palais was built for the 1900 World's Fair as an exhibition hall and has held the City of Paris's fine arts museum ever since.
- Must see
- Museum
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La Madeleine 06 30 minLa Madeleine
La Madeleine is a Greek temple in the middle of Paris, and it took seventy-nine years and several changes of mind to finish.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Hôtel de la Marine 07 2 hoursHôtel de la Marine
Hôtel de la Marine is a paid-ticket monument on Place de la Concorde, one of a matching pair of colonnaded palaces — its twin across the square today houses the Hôtel de Crillon — built between 1758 and 1774 to…
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Chapelle expiatoire 08 30 minChapelle expiatoire
The Chapelle expiatoire is a neoclassical funerary chapel built between 1815 and 1826 on the site of the former Madeleine cemetery, where the guillotined bodies of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were buried in unmarked graves covered with quicklime in…
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris 09 15 minTomb of the Unknown Soldier in Paris
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a flat paving stone beneath the Arc de Triomphe, at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, marking the grave of an unidentified French soldier from the First World War.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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Luxor Obelisk 10 10 minLuxor Obelisk
The Luxor Obelisk stands at the centre of Place de la Concorde, a 3,300-year-old pink granite obelisk that once stood at the entrance to Luxor Temple in Egypt, one of a matching pair carved in the reign of Ramesses II.
- Must see
- Historic monument
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