place de la Concorde

The Place de la Concorde is a 7.6-hectare traffic island that was once the busiest execution ground in Europe. It is the largest public square in Paris. It was commissioned in 1748 to mark Louis XV's recovery from illness, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel from 1757 and finished in 1772, as the Place Louis XV. Between 1793 and 1795 roughly 1,119 people were guillotined here, including Louis XVI on 21 January 1793 and Marie Antoinette on 16 October 1793. The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas. Square and outdoor monument viewing are free. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Metro Concorde serves lines 1, 8 and 12 directly beneath the square. Yes. Worship, events, maintenance, weather and security can change ordinary access. No. Special tours, exhibitions and upgrades use separate tickets. The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas. Square and outdoor monument viewing are free. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Metro Concorde serves lines 1, 8 and 12 directly beneath the square. The public square and pavements are

An Egyptian obelisk that predates everything around it by three thousand years, and two fountains copied from Rome. The Luxor Obelisk is 3,300 years old, 23 m of granite weighing more than 250 tonnes. Muhammad Ali Pasha gave it to France in 1829 and it was raised here on 25 October 1836. France added a gold-leafed pyramidion to the top in 1998, replacing the one lost in antiquity. The two fountains, each nine metres high, were installed between 1836 and 1840 and are modelled on those in St Peter's Square in Rome. Square and outdoor monument viewing are free. Metro Concorde serves lines 1, 8 and 12 directly beneath the square.

Twenty minutes, and it is a place you pass through rather than visit. The square is the hinge of the great axis: the Tuileries and the Louvre one way, the Champs-Élysées and the Arc de Triomphe the other, the Madeleine north and the Assemblée Nationale across the river south. Standing at the obelisk and turning through 360 degrees is the whole of it. It works best as the middle of a walk rather than as a destination — the Tuileries on one side and the Champs-Élysées on the other are each half an hour. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas.

The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas. Metro Concorde serves lines 1, 8 and 12 directly beneath the square. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas.

Square and outdoor monument viewing are free. The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Metro Concorde serves lines 1, 8 and 12 directly beneath the square.

Metro Concorde serves lines 1, 8 and 12 directly beneath the square. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas.

Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. The public square and pavements are accessible 24 hours daily; ceremonies, traffic works and security can restrict areas. Square and outdoor monument viewing are free. Step-free entrances or public approaches, lifts where required, and accessible toilets serve principal visitor areas. Historic surfaces, crowds and security remain relevant.

The obelisk with the Arc de Triomphe behind it, from the eastern side at sunset, is the photograph. The alignment is exact and it is the only place the two line up. Facing the other way, the obelisk against the Tuileries and the Louvre works in the morning. The fountains are nine metres high and photograph best from close in at their base with the obelisk behind, rather than from across the square where the traffic fills the frame. Square and outdoor monument viewing are free.