Les Monuments de Paris

•The subway built in 1900 with one line, now has 380 stations below Paris!

Le métro

Paris’ beautiful town hall built in the renaissance style

L’Hôtel de Ville

The first stone bridge in Paris is now paris’ oldest bridge!

Le Pont Neuf

This amazing museum is the home of the Mona Lisa and features the triangle entry way

Le Louvre

Part of the University of Paris

La Sorbonne

This ultra modern building is used as a modern art museum and a public library

Centre Pompidou

The prison for those sentenced to the guillotine….Marie Antoinette is their most famous prisoner!

La Conciergerie

Where people were guillotined during the french revolution- now named for peace and harmony

La Place de la Concorde

Situated next to the Louvre, this park has statues, plants and fountains in the Medici style

Le Jardin de Tuileries

The Conciergerie, the Pont Neuf and Notre Dame are all found on this island in Paris

L’île de la cité

This river flows through the middle of Paris!

La Seine

Architect Charles Garnier created a luxurious theater for the French elite that now shows ballet

L’Opéra

This art museum is a converted train station and features the impressionist era

Musée d’Orsay

This famous , wide street features luxury shops and ends at the Arch de Triomphe

Les Champs-Elysées

This is the famous “place” where the famous Bastille prison once stood

La Place de la Bastille

This famous cathedral took almost 200 years to build and features gothic architecture like the Rose windows and gargoyles

Notre Dame

Giant monument to Napoleon’s victories, now also commemorates the WWII vets with the eternal flame

L’Arc de Triomphe

First used as quarries, this houses the human bones from the cleared out cemetaries pf Paris in the 1700’s

Les Catacombes

Situated in the Latin quarter, this park is also the site of the French Senate

Le Jardin de Luxembourg

The city of Paris is divided into this arrangement

20 arrondissements

This huge, white basilica/church was built as a memorial to the soldiers in the Franco-Prussian War and was built on Montmartre hill

Le Sacré Coeur

This famous castle is located outside of paris and is the home of the Hall of Mirrors, extensive gardens and fountains and is known for the treaty that was signed here to end WWI

Versailles