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- Category:
- Best views
- Address:
- pl Charles-de-Gaulle
- Info:
- (access via
underground
passage), 8th
(01.55. 37.73.77).
Mº Charles de
Gaulle Etoile.
Open Oct-Mar 10am-10.30pm daily. Apr-Sept 10am-11pm daily.
Admission €8; free-€5 reductions.
Arc de Triomphe
pl Charles-de-Gaulle
Napoléon ordered the arch’s construction in 1809 as a monument to the Republican armies, but almost immediately the empire he’d built began to collapse. The arch, 50m high and 45m wide, was only completed in 1836. Nonetheless it bears the names of Napoléon’s victories, and is decorated with a frieze of battle scenes and sculptures on its flanks. The annual Bastille Day military procession begins here.




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BLASH Layytahhzz Posted on Oct 15 2007 22:04
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