The oldest surviving part of the medieval royal palace on the Île de la Cité, with a huge Gothic hall of the soldiers, among the largest in Europe. During the Revolution it became a prison, where Marie Antoinette spent her last weeks before the guillotine.
A reconstruction of her cell and the names of the Revolution's victims tell the story. Buy a joint ticket with the Sainte-Chapelle next door.
A royal chapel built in the 1240s by King Louis IX to house relics of the Crown of Thorns, hidden inside the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité.
The great Gothic cathedral on the Île de la Cité, begun in 1163 and reopened in December 2024 after the restoration that followed the fire of 2019.
The world's most visited museum, in the former royal palace on the Seine, entered through I.
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