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Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
Critics' ChoiceNotre-Dame was commissioned in 1160 by Bishop Maurice de Sully, who wanted to rival the smart new abbey that had just gone up in St-Denis. It replaced the earlier St-Etienne...
Pl du Parvis-Notre-DameLa Conciergerie
Critics' ChoiceThe Conciergerie looks every inch the forbidding medieval fortress. However, much of the façade was added in the 1850s, long after Marie-Antoinette, Danton and Robespierre had...
2 bd du PalaisEglise St-Louis-en-l'Ile
The island's church was built between 1664 and 1765, following plans by Louis Le Vau and later completed by Gabriel Le Duc. The baroque interior boasts Corinthian columns and a...
19bis rue St-Louis-en-l'IleLa Crypte Archéologique
Hidden under the forecourt in front of the cathedral is a large void that contains bits and pieces of Roman quaysides, ramparts and hypocausts, medieval cellars, shops and...
Pl Jean-Paul IIMémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation
This sober tribute to the 200,000 Jews, Communists, homosexuals and résistants deported to concentration camps from France in World War II stands on the eastern tip of the...
Sq de l'Ile de FranceSainte-Chapelle
Devout King Louis IX (St Louis, 1226-70) had a hobby of accumulating holy relics (and children: he fathered 11). In the 1240s he bought what was advertised as the Crown of...
6 bd du Palais