District guide · Paris
The 1st arrondissement sits at the heart of Paris, forming part of the central sector with three neighbouring districts. The Musée du Louvre, Sainte-Chapelle an...
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The 1st arrondissement sits at the heart of Paris, forming part of the central sector with three neighbouring districts. The Musée du Louvre, Sainte-Chapelle and Jardin des Tuileries stand among its principal landmarks. The district contains monuments, museums and gardens of historical significance that draw those interested in French art and architecture.
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Place Vendôme
Place Vendôme is an octagon of uniform stone façades built as a single architectural composition, not a collection of separate buildings that happened to end up on the same square.
The Pont Neuf is the New Bridge and it is the oldest standing bridge in Paris, which has been the joke about it for four hundred years.
The Musee de l'Orangerie sits at the western end of the Tuileries Garden, in a building put up in 1852 under Napoleon III to overwinter the garden's orange trees, a purely functional greenhouse rather than a building meant to be…
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
The Arc de triomphe du Carrousel stands in the Cour Napoleon, between the Louvre's wings and I. M.
Bourse de Commerce
The Bourse de Commerce is a Paris contemporary art museum housed in a historic circular building near Les Halles and the Louvre district.
Jeu de Paume
The Jeu de Paume is a photography and moving-image gallery in the Tuileries Garden's north-west corner, in a building constructed in 1861 as a court for jeu de paume, the indoor precursor of tennis played by Napoleon III's court.
Palais de Justice de Paris
The Palais de Justice is the historic seat of the French judiciary on the Ile de la Cite, built on the site of the medieval Palais de la Cite, the residence of the Capetian kings from the 10th century until…
The Colonne Vendome stands at the centre of Place Vendome in the 1st arrondissement, raised between 1806 and 1810 on Napoleon's order to commemorate the victory at Austerlitz.
Place Dauphine
Place Dauphine is a triangular square at the western tip of the Ile de la Cite, laid out from 1607 on the orders of Henri IV as the second of his two Paris square projects, after the Place Royale …
Square du Vert Galant
Jardin du Palais Royal
Hôtel Saint-Florentin
