District guide · Paris
The 5th arrondissement is a historic district in central Paris that encompasses the Latin Quarter. The Panthéon, a monumental neoclassical building, and the Ins...
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The 5th arrondissement is a historic district in central Paris that encompasses the Latin Quarter. The Panthéon, a monumental neoclassical building, and the Institut du Monde arabe, a museum, stand among its notable sites. The district draws visitors through its concentration of medieval architecture, universities, and cultural institutions spanning centuries.
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Jardin des Plantes
The Jardin des plantes is Paris's main botanical garden and the founding site of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, on the Left Bank in the 5th arrondissement, between the Seine and the Austerlitz rail yards.
Musée de Cluny, formally the Musée national du Moyen Âge, brings together Roman archaeology, a late-medieval residence and medieval art in one compact Latin Quarter site.
The Museum national d'histoire naturelle is France's national natural history museum, founded in 1793 out of the royal Jardin du Roi, and it occupies several linked sites across the Jardin des Plantes in the 5th arrondissement.
