Tourism Palaiseau

Museums and monuments to visit

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  Maison des Jardies
  House of Jardies and his cottage were built in 1838. Initial ownership of Balzac, he had to flee in 1840, however, because of its creditors. It only remains for him a beautiful rustic buffet, moved ...
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  Cathédrale Saint-Louis
  The village church of Versailles, before construction of the castle was dedicated to St. Julien Brioude. This church was demolished in 1681. On its site was built the great common of the castle. The ...
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  Salle du Jeu de Paume
  Built in 1686, this room was destined to play a game resembling tennis. It is in this room that was the oath of the Jeu de Paume, where members of the Third Estate s'autoproclamèrent ...
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  Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
  The national domain of Saint-Cloud is located on the outskirts of the city of Paris, it offers nature lovers an area of 460 hectares of gardens, fountains and sculptures, designed at the time by ...
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  Chateau de Versailles
  The Palace of Versailles was the place of residence of the Kings of France such as LouisXIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI. This royal palace is one of the most remarkable in France and in the world, thanks ...
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  Tour Montparnasse
  The Montparnasse Tower, 210 meters high, is the highest skyscraper in central Paris but also one of the highest in Europe. Each year around 750,000 visitors from every part of the world come to the ...
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  Château de la Madeleine
  Its construction began between 1030 and 1090. It was commissioned by Gui I, Seigneur de Chevreuse. They were defending the town of Chevreuse, a victim of looting. From that time that remains likely ...
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  Musée du Luxembourg
  The Musée du Luxembourg, of Paris, is a museum located in the sixth arrondissement near the Palais du Luxembourg. It was the first museum in France to be opened to the public since 1750 but ...
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  Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
  The Museum national d’Histoire Naturelle is a museum in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, founded in 1635 as a research center by Guy de la Brosse, physician to Louis XIII, has a range of science ...
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  Panthéon
  The Panthéon is a neo classical monument located in Paris in the center of the Latin Quarter. Originaly, it was built in the 18th century as a church in order to house the reliquary of Sainte ...
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  Musée des Plans-Reliefs
  Located within the Hôtel des Invalides, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs is a museum dedicated to three-dimensional models of fortified cities known as «plans-reliefs». These ...
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  Tour Eiffel
  Originally named "tower 300 meters," the Eiffel Tower was built for the Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1889 by Gustave Eiffel. Located on the grounds of the Champ de Mars, this piece ...
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  Musée Rodin
  Musée Rodin is situated in the heart of Paris, in Paris’ 7th arrondissement and in Meudon (hauts de Seine), with these two sites, the museum is one of the most visited (the 8th in France) ...
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  Musée du quai Branly
  The Musée du quai Branly (also known as the museum of primitive arts or the museum of culture and civilization of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas) is situated on "le quai ...
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  Musée de l'armée (Paris)
  The Musée de l'Armée was established in 1905. The museum is the home to the Tomb of Napoleon. The museum covers army and artillery antiques from ancient times, weapons used during ...
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  Institut du monde arabe
  The Institute of the Arab World, located on Place Mohammed V in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, is a cultural institute opened in 1988 as a partnership between France and 22 Arab countries ...
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  Notre-Dame de Paris
  Notre-Dame de Paris (French for Our Lady of Paris), is not the largest Gothic Catholic cathedral in France, but its one of the most remarkable masterpiece of the Gothic period. After its completion, ...
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  Musée d'Orsay
  Housed in the former Orsay station, the Orsay Museum is the impressionist museum of Paris. Built in 1900, the beautiful "Gare d'Orsay" was one of Paris main stations with trains to ...
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  Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris
  The Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris is hosted by "Palais de Tokyo". Collections of modern art of the city of Paris are brought together in the eastern wing of the ...
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  Sainte Chapelle
  The Sainte-Chapelle, the palatine chapel in the courtyard of the royal palace on the Île de la Cité, was built to house precious relics: Christ's crown of thorns, the holy cross and ...
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  Conciergerie
  The Conciergerie is the main vestige of the former Palais de la Cité which was the residence and the seat of power of the Kings of France. Today, the building is located on the Quai de ...
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  Musée de la contrefaçon
  The Museum of counterfeiting was established in 1951 at the initiative of the Union of Manufacturers for the International Protection of Industrial Property, and Art. For this association, the ...
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  Palais de la découverte
  The Palais de la Découverte is a museum but also a cultural scientific centre situated in the west wind of the Grand Palais, close to the Champs-Elysées. Visited by almost 600,000 ...
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  Musée de l'Orangerie
  The musée de l’Orangerie, located in the heart of Paris in a former orange grove in the Jardin des Tuileries, is a museum dedicated to two art movements: Impressionism and ...
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  Le Petit Palais
  Overlooking the Grand Palais, the Petit Palais houses the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in the city of Paris that offers a large overview of the artistic creation from the period of ...
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  Mémorial de la Shoah
  In the heart of the Marais, the Shoah Memorial is both a museum, a documentation center and a memorial whose purpose is to understand the past to illuminate the future.Since 2005, he put all these ...
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  Le Grand Palais
  Built in 1897 for the Universal Exhibition held from April 15 to November 12, 1900, the Grand Palais is a "monument dedicated by the Republic to the glory of French art", as explained in the ...
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  Musée du Louvre
  The Louvre is located on the bank of the Seine River, in Paris. Originally constructed as the fortress of Philippe Auguste in 1190, Charles V oversaw the first modernisation process (r. 1364-1380) ...
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  Musée des Arts Décoratifs
  Located in the Marsan wing of the Louvre, the Museum of Decorative Arts has one of the largest collections of decorative arts in the world. 6000 oeuvres have presented are divided into five ...
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  Centre Georges Pompidou
  The national centre of art and culture Centre Georges Pompidou was opened in 1977 providing Paris with a cultural institution dedicated entirely to modern and contemporary art. It lies in the heart of ...
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  Musée Carnavalet
  The Musée Carnavelet (or Musée de l’Histoire de Paris) is a museum dedicated to the history Paris. The musem retraces the history of its buildings; 400,000 years of history, of ...
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  Domaine national du Palais-Royal
  The Palais-Royal was built in the early 17th century by the Cardinal Richelieu. It stands at the opposite of the north wing of the Louvre. After the cardinal and Louis XIII death, who had inherited of ...
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  Arc de triomphe
  The Arc de Triomphe is a monument in Paris that stands in the centre of the Place Charles de Gaulle, (also known as the Place de l'Étoile), 2,2 km from the Place de la Concorde. The ...
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  Église Saint-Eustache
  The church of Saint Eustache was built from 1532 to 1640. Unique, its architecture is shaped has a Gothic cathedral, while the decoration is Renaissance. With 33.5 m high and 100 m long and 43 m wide, ...
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  Église Saint-Christophe
  Crypt of the eighth century, Gothic style of the twelfth and thirteenth century. Its fortified tower above 30 m date of the eleventh century. The rest of the building is newer and involves also the ...
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  Château de Malmaison
  Malmaison castle reveals you to Bonaparte's admiration for the antique. Its entry Olympian and overhanging facades of classical statues testify. Lobbies to lounges, marble, wood, gilt bronze, ...
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  Opéra Garnier
  Palais Garnier (or Opéra Garnier) forms with l’Opéra Bastille ‘l’Opéra national de Paris’. Considered to be one of the most beautiful in the world, l’Opéra Garnier is one of Paris’ ...
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  Église Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs
  The Catholic church Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs is located rue Saint-Martin in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. It have a Gothic style. Its construction dates from the twelfth, fifteenth and seventeenth ...
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  Chapelle expiatoire
  The Chapelle expiatoire is located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The chapel is dedicated to King Louis XVI and his Queen, Marie Antoinette, guillotined during the french revolution, although the ...
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  Musée Grévin
  Musée Grévin is a private waxwork museum, situated in Paris, which is the equivalent of the Madame Tussauds wax museum, implanted in the major worldwide cities. The museum has wax models ...
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  Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise
  The Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in Paris and one of the most famous in the world. Located in the 20th arrondissement of the city, now it stretches over an area of 44 ...
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  Château du Marais
  Castle du Marais is a French chateau located in the municipality of Val-Saint-Germain, near Saint-Cheron, in the former province of Hurepoix today Essonne department and the Ile-de-France region, ...
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  Château de Vincennes
  The Castle of Vincennes is an imposing fortress at the east of Paris, it is the largest royal castle that remains today in France, its 52 meter tower is also the highest. It was built in XIV century ...
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  Basilique du Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre
  The foundation stone of the Basilique Sacré-Coeur was laid in 1875. It was consecrated in 1891, fully completed in 1914, and elevated to the status of a basilica in 1919, after the end of the ...