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Area:
Champs-Elysées & Western Paris
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.

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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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