Sehenswürdigkeiten in Paris

1.Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars, built by Gustave Eiffel's company for the 1889 World's Fair. At 330 m it was the tallest man-made structure in the world until…

2.Notre-Dame de Paris

Notre-Dame de Paris is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, a masterpiece of French Gothic architecture begun in 1163. Badly damaged by fire in 2019, it reopened in December 2024…

3.Louvre Museum

The Louvre is the world's most-visited museum, housed in the former royal palace on the Right Bank of the Seine. Its collections range from antiquity to the 19th century and include the Mona Lisa…

4.Musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay occupies a former Beaux-Arts railway station on the Left Bank. It holds the world's largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, by Monet, Renoir, Degas…

5.Arc de Triomphe

The Arc de Triomphe stands at the western end of the Champs-Élysées, at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle. Commissioned by Napoleon in 1806 to honour the French armies, it shelters the Tomb of…

6.Sacré-Cœur Basilica

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart crowns the butte of Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Built between 1875 and 1914 in a Romano-Byzantine style, its white travertine dome offers one of the…

7.Palais Garnier

The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. Designed by Charles Garnier, its lavish Second Empire interiors and Chagall ceiling inspired The Phantom…

8.Hôtel de Ville

The Hôtel de Ville has housed the city's local administration since 1357. The current neo-Renaissance building was rebuilt after the original was burned during the Paris Commune in 1871.

9.Sorbonne

10.Institut de France

11.Louvre Pyramid

The Louvre Pyramid is a glass and metal pyramid designed by I. M. Pei, completed in 1989 in the Cour Napoléon. It serves as the main entrance of the museum and has become a landmark in its own right.

12.Les Invalides

Les Invalides is a complex of buildings founded by Louis XIV in 1670 as a home and hospital for aged and unwell soldiers. It now houses the Army Museum and, under its golden dome, the tomb of…