List of tourist attractions in Paris
Height comparison of some Paris landmarks
Printable tourist map showing the main attractions of Paris
Paris , the capital of France , has an annual 30 million foreign visitors, and so is one of the most visited cities in the world.[ 1] Paris ' sights include monuments and architecture, such as its Arc de Triomphe , Eiffel Tower and neo-classic Haussmannian boulevards and buildings as well as museums, operas and concert halls. There are also more modern attractions such as its suburban Disneyland Paris . With its many monument, the city is a symbol of French culture, and since the 2000s attracts nearly three million visitors per year.[ 2]
Within the City of Paris
Museums
Centre Georges-Pompidou - 20th-century modern art museum, hosting the Paris Museum of Modern Art
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie - a hands-on science museum that attracts over two million visitors yearly
The Louvre - one of the world's largest museums and a historic monument
Musée des Arts et Métiers - Museum of Arts and Crafts that houses the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Industry), which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions
Musée d'Orsay - 19th-century paintings, one of the largest Impressionist exhibits, housed in a former rail station
Musée de l'Orangerie - Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, the permanent home of eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet - dedicated to Claude Monet , includes over 300 paintings including Monet's Impression, Sunrise
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle - National Museum of Natural History
Musée Picasso - dedicated to the works of Pablo Picasso
Musée Rodin - houses the works of sculptors Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel
Parc de la Villette - hosting the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie , a science museum, and the Cité de la Musique , which houses various musical institutes, a museum, and a concert hall
Monuments
Churches
Modern and contemporary architecture of the 20th and 21st century
Arab World Institute (1987) Jean Nouvel ,[ 3] 5th arrondissement of Paris
Bercy Arena , équipe Andrault-Parat, Jean Prouvé , Guvan (1984), 12th arrondissement of Paris .
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris , Pavillon Suisse (1930) and Maison du Brésil (1954), Le Corbusier and Lúcio Costa for the latter[ 4]
Front de Seine (1970s) and Centre commercial Beaugrenelle , Valode et Pistre (2013), 15th arrondissement of Paris
Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry (1989), 12th arrondissement of Paris .
Musée Mendjisky, Robert Mallet-Stevens ,[ 5] (1932) 15th arrondissement of Paris
Opéra Bastille , Carlos Ott (1989), 11th arrondissement of Paris
Palais de Chaillot (1937), Jacques Carlu , Louis-Hippolyte Boileau and Léon Azéma , 16th arrondissement of Paris
Palais de la Porte Dorée (1931), Albert Laprade , 12th arrondissement of Paris [ 6]
Palais de Tokyo (1937), architects: Jean-Claude Dondel, André Aubert, Paul Viard et Marcel Dastugue, low reliefs: Alfred Janniot , statue La France : Antoine Bourdelle , 16th arrondissement of Paris
Palais d'Iéna (1937), Auguste Perret , 16th arrondissement of Paris
Palais de Chaillot (1937), Jacques Carlu , Louis-Hippolyte Boileau and Léon Azéma , 16th arrondissement of Paris (1927), Jacques Marcel Auburtin, André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon, 8th arrondissement of Paris
Salle Pleyel (1927), Jacques Marcel Auburtin, André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon, 8th arrondissement of Paris
La Samaritaine , building facing the river (1928?), Frantz Jourdain and Henri Sauvage , 1st arrondissement of Paris
Site of the French communist party, Oscar Niemeyer (1965-1980), 19th arrondissement of Paris
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1913), Auguste Perret , 8th arrondissement of Paris
Tour Montparnasse , architects Jean Saubot, Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis de Hoÿm de Marien (1973), 15th arrondissement of Paris
World Heritage Centre (Unesco) (1958) architects: French Bernard Zehrfuss , Américan Marcel Breuer , and Italian Pier Luigi Nervi . Their plans were validated by an international committee of five architects: Lucio Costa (Brasil), Walter Gropius (United States), Le Corbusier (France), Sven Markelius (Sweden) and Ernesto Nathan Rogers (Italy), in collaboration with Eero Saarinen (Finland). 7th arrondissement of Paris [ 7]
Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou , Renzo Piano , Richard Rogers , Gianfranco Franchini (1977), 1st arrondissement of Paris
Les Echelles du Baroque , Ricardo Bofill (1985), 14th arrondissement of Paris
La Géode , architects Adrien Fainsilber and Gérard Chamayou (1985), 19th arrondissement of Paris
Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Arche-d'Alliance, Architecture-Studio (1986), 15th arrondissement of Paris
Louvre Pyramid , Ieoh Ming Pei (1989), 1st arrondissement of Paris
La Défense , Paris business district, Grande Arche , Johan Otto von Spreckelsen and Erik Reitzel (1989)
Parc André-Citroën , landscaping: Gilles Clément , Allain Provost , architects Patrick Berger, Jean-François Jodry and Jean-Paul Viguier , (1992),[ 8] 15th arrondissement of Paris
Canal+ former site (1992), Richard Meier ,[ 9] 15th arrondissement of Paris
Outside shell Ministère de la Culture (France),[ 10] 1st arrondissement of Paris
Cinémathèque française (1993), Frank Gehry , 12th arrondissement of Paris .
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain , Jean Nouvel (1994), 14th arrondissement of Paris
Bibliothèque nationale de France , Dominique Perrault (1995), 13th arrondissement of Paris
Musée du quai Branly , Jean Nouvel (2006), 7th arrondissement of Paris
Cité de la mode et du design , Jakob + Macfarlane (2008), 13th arrondissement of Paris
Louis Vuitton Foundation , Frank Gehry (2014), 16th arrondissement of Paris [ 11]
Philharmonie de Paris , Jean Nouvel (2015), 19th arrondissement of Paris
Others
In the Paris region
Monuments
Entertainment
See also
Notes and references