The Place de la Concorde is dominated by the Luxor Obelisk, a twenty-three-metre-tall granite monolith covered in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. This stone pillar, which once stood at the entrance to the Luxor Temple, was gifted to France…
Champs Élysées Grand Walk
Walk from the historic Place de la Concorde up to the iconic Arc de Triomphe, exploring grand exhibition palaces, lush gardens, and legendary luxury boutiques along Paris's most famous avenue.
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1. Place de la Concorde
2. Jardins des Champs-Élysées
The Jardins des Champs-Élysées unfold across thirteen hectares of greenery, split into twelve distinct squares that stretch between the Place de la Concorde and the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées. You can identify these spaces by their…
3. Petit Palais
The Petit Palais is defined by its grand, gilded entrance gate, which sits beneath a prominent dome and is reached by a wide staircase. Designed by architect Charles Girault, this building was constructed for the nineteen hundred…
4. Grand Palais
The Grand Palais is marked by a massive, conservatory-style glass roof that spans roughly two hundred metres in length, forming the largest vault of its kind in Europe. Built for the nineteen hundred Exposition Universelle, the structure…
5. Théâtre Marigny
The Théâtre Marigny is defined by its striking circular rotunda, a architectural signature that distinguishes it from the neighbouring buildings near the Champs-Élysées. This shape is a physical echo of its origins as a panorama, a…
6. Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées Marcel-Dassault
The Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées-Marcel-Dassault is a circular junction with a diameter of one hundred and sixty-four metres, positioned along the avenue des Champs-Élysées. First laid out in sixteen seventy by the landscape architect…
7. Louis Vuitton Résidence Éphémère Champs-Élysées
The Louis Vuitton Résidence Éphémère is marked by its location at one hundred avenue des Champs-Élysées, where the building exterior once appeared as a massive, golden-hued Damier pattern. This structure served as a temporary retail space…
8. Brasserie Fouquet's Paris
Brasserie Fouquet's is recognisable by the bright red awnings and gold lettering that stretch across its corner terraces at ninety-nine Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Founded in eighteen ninety-nine by Louis Fouquet, the establishment occupies…
9. Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe dominates the skyline with its massive limestone pillars and vaulted arches at the center of the Place Charles de Gaulle. Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned the monument in eighteen oh six to celebrate the military…