The palace built for Cardinal Richelieu, with a peaceful garden of lime trees and fountains framed by arcades of old shops and cafés, just north of the Louvre. In the courtyard, Daniel Buren's black and white striped columns of different heights are a favourite with children and photographers.
The palace itself houses government bodies, but the gardens and arcades are free to wander.
The world's most visited museum, in the former royal palace on the Seine, entered through I.
A former railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine, now home to the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art: Mone…
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.
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.
An 18th-century palace on the Place de la Concorde, built to store the royal furniture and later the headquarters of the French Navy for over 200 yea…
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.
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