 #1 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Bois de Vincennes
Paris
~0.79 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Bois de Vincennes
The Bois de Vincennes is a park in the English landscape manner to the east of Paris. The park is named after the nearby town of Vincennes.The Bois de Vincennes, like the Bois de Boulogne, is often not thought to be part of Paris proper, as it consists only of unpopulated public land. However, for administrative purposes, it is part of the 12th arrondissement of Paris.It has an area of 9.947 km² (3.841 sq. miles, or 2,458 acres), which is almost 0.5 times larger than Central Park in New York, and four times larger than Hyde Park in London.
|  #2 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Bastille (12)
Paris
~2.70 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Bastille (12)
The column surmounted by the gilded "Spirit of Liberty" on place de la Bastille was erected to commemorate not the surrender of the prison – whose only visible remains have been transported to square Henri-Galli at the end of boulevard Henri-IV – in 1789, but the July Revolution of 1830, that replaced the autocratic Charles X with the "Citizen King" Louis-Philippe. When Louis-Philippe fled in the more significant 1848 Revolution, his throne was burnt beside the column and a new inscription added. Four months later, the workers again took to the streets. All of eastern Paris was barricaded, with the fiercest fighting on rue du Faubourg-St-Antoine, until the rebellion was quelled with the usual massacres and deportation of survivors. However, it is the events of July 14, 1789, symbol of the ...
|  #3 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Gare de Lyon
Paris
~3.37 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Gare de Lyon
The Gare de Lyon is one of the six large railway termini in Paris, France. It is named after the city of Lyon, a stop for many long-distance trains departing here, most en route to the south of France. In general the station's SNCF services run to the south and east of France. The station also hosts regional trains and the RER. It is served by the Gare de Lyon metro station.The station was built for the World Exposition of 1900. On multiple levels, it is considered a classic example of the architecture of its time. Most notable is the large clock tower atop one corner of the station, similar in style to the clock tower of the United Kingdom Houses of Parliament, home to Big Ben.The station houses the Le Train Bleu restaurant, which has served drinks and meals to travellers and other gu...
|  #4 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Place d'Italie (13)
Paris
~3.49 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Place d'Italie (13)
Italie 13 (or Italie XIII) is the name of a large urbanism project in Paris which started in the 1960s and was interrupted in the 1970s. Its purpose was to profoundly modify the structure of some areas of the 13th arrondissement, mainly around the Avenue d'Italie which inspired its name. The partially completed project led to the creation of numerous towers in the south of the arrondissement, notably Les Olympiades.
|  #5 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pere Lachaise (20)
Paris
~3.64 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pere Lachaise (20)
Paris' most famous cemetery gets the name from Louis XIV's religious advisor, who previously owned the property. In 1804, the city decided to turn the land into a cemetery. Famous people buried here include authors Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde and Honore de Balzac, and singers Edith Piaf and Jim Morrison (whose grave is one of the most visited). Among the many 19th-century sculptures and monuments is the Mur des Federes, which was placed in memory of the 147 rebels shot here on May 28, 1871, during the Paris Commune.
|  #6 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Paris
~3.69 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; officially, cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, France at (48 ha, 118.6 acres), though there are larger cemeteries in the city's suburbs.Père Lachaise is one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. Located in the 20th arrondissement, it is reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to the graves of those who have enhanced French life over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three World War I memorials.Père Lachaise is located on Boulevard de Ménilmontant. Métro station Philippe Auguste on line 2 is next to the main entrance, while the station called Père Lachaise, on line 3, is 500 metres away near a side entra...
| #7 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont d'Austerlitz
Paris
~3.83 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont d'Austerlitz
The Pont d'Austerlitz is a bridge which crosses the Seine in Paris, France.The bridge links the 12th arrondissement at the rue Ledru-Rollin, to the 5th and 13th arrondissements, at the Jardin des Plantes.The construction of the bridge came from a necessity to link the Faubourg Saint-Antoine on the right bank to the Jardin des Plantes on the left bank. At the beginning of the 19th century the first bridge was constructed. In 1801, the engineer Becquey de Beaupré proposed a five-arched bridge. In 1854, the bridge was judged dangerous and the width was increased to 18 meters (59 feet) and finally to 30 meters (98 feet).
|  #8 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Galieries de Paleontologie et d'Anatomie Comparee
Paris
~3.89 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Galieries de Paleontologie et d'Anatomie Comparee
|  #9 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Republique (11)
Paris
~3.92 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Republique (11)
|  #10 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Place de la Bastille
Paris
~4.02 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Place de la Bastille
The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris, where the Bastille prison stood until the 'Storming of the Bastille' and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution; no vestige of it remains.The square straddles 3 arrondissements of Paris, namely the 4th, 11th and 12th. The square and its surrounding areas are normally called simply Bastille.The July Column (Colonne de Juillet) which commemorates the events of the July Revolution (1830) stands at the center of the square. Other notable features include the Bastille Opera, the Bastille subway station and a section of the Canal Saint Martin. Prior to 1984, the former Bastille railway station stood where the opera house now stands.The square is often home to concerts and similar ...
|  #11 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Marais/Bastille (3rd/4th)
Paris
~4.03 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Marais/Bastille (3rd/4th)
Marais is one of the most historic and affluent areas of Paris.
|  #12 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Menagarie des Jardin des Plantes
Paris
~4.13 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Menagarie des Jardin des Plantes
The Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes is a zoo in Paris, France, belonging to the botanical garden Jardin des Plantes. It is the first and thus the oldest civil zoological garden in the world.The Zoo is located directly by the Seine in the centre of Paris. It takes up about one third of the Jardin des Plantes.In the beginning the term Jardin des Plantes referred only to a botanical garden of 58 acres, created and built by the royal physicians Jean Herouard and Guy de La Rousse. It therefore became known as the royal herb garden. Created in 1626 and opened for the public in 1635, it is the oldest part of the national research and educational institute for science, the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, which was founded in 1793.
|  #13 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Grande Galerie d'Evolution
Paris
~4.17 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Grande Galerie d'Evolution
|  #14 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Maison de Victor Hugo
Paris
~4.22 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Maison de Victor Hugo
Maison de Victor Hugo is a museum, operated by the the City of Paris, which preserves the house that Victor Hugo lived in for 16 years from 1832–1848. The museum is in the Place des Vosges and dates from 1605 when a lot was granted to Isaac Arnauld in the south-east corner of the square. It was substantially improved by the de Rohans family, who gave the building its current name of Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée. Victor Hugo was 30 when he moved into the house in October 1832 with his wife Adèle. They rented a 280 square metre apartment on the second floor. The mansion was converted into a museum when a large donation was made by Paul Meurice to the city of Paris to buy the house.The museum consists of an antechamber leading through the Chinese living room and medieval style dining room to V...
|  #15 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Place des Vosges
Paris
~4.27 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Place des Vosges
The Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris. It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.Originally known as the Place Royale, the Place des Vosges was built by Henri IV from 1605 to 1612. A true square (140 m x 140 m), it embodied the first European program of royal city planning. It was built on the site of the Hôtel des Tournelles and its gardens: at a tournament at the Tournelles, a royal residence, Henri II was wounded and died. Catherine de Medicis had the Gothic pile demolished, and she removed to the Louvre.The Place des Vosges, inaugurated in 1612 with a grand carrousel to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII and Anne of Austria, is the prototype of all the residential squares of Eu...
|  #16 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Institut du Monde Arabe
Paris
~4.35 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Institut du Monde Arabe
The Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) or Arab World Institute (AWI), in English, was established in 1980 in Paris, when 18 Arab countries concluded an agreement with France to establish the Institute to disseminate information about the Arab world and set in motion detailed research to cover Arabic and the Arab world's cultural and spiritual values. The Institute also aims at promoting cooperation and cultural exchanges between France and the Arab world, particularly in the areas of science and technology, thus contributing to development of relations between the Arab world and Europe. Libya joined the agreement in 1984.
|  #17 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont de Sully
Paris
~4.35 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont de Sully
The Pont de Sully (or Pont Sully) is a bridge across the River Seine in Paris, France.In reality two separate bridges meeting on the eastern tip of the Île Saint-Louis, it links the 4th and 5th arrondissements of the capital along the line of the Boulevard Henri IV, and connects to the eastern end of the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Sully - Morland is the nearest Metro station.The two parts of the bridge, known as the Passerelle Damiette (on the right-bank side) and the Passerelle de Constantine on the left-bank side, were authorized by an act of 18 June 1836, in favor of M. de Beaumont, the projector, who would recoup his expenses, valued at 380.000 fr., by collecting tolls. The bridges, opened to traffic January 1838, were a pair of pedestrian suspension bridges, constructed by the engin...
|  #18 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont Marie
Paris
~4.45 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont Marie
The Pont Marie is a bridge which crosses the Seine in Paris, France.The bridge links the Île Saint-Louis to the quai de l'Hôtel de Ville and is one of three bridges designed to allow traffic flow between the Île Saint-Louis and the Left and Right banks of Paris. The Pont Marie links the Right Bank and is the counterpart of the Pont de la Tournelle which is built along the same line but serves to connect the Île Saint-Louis with the Left Bank.The Pont Marie derives its name from the engineer Christophe Marie, who proposed its construction beginning in 1605 in order to augment and assist in the urbanisation of the île Saint-Louis. However the bridge was not actually approved for building by the king until 1614, at which point Louis XIII laid the first stone as part of a formal bridge bui...
|  #19 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont de la Tournelle
Paris
~4.46 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont de la Tournelle
Pont de la Tournelle (Tournelle Bridge in English), is an arch bridge spanning the river Seine in Paris.The first, a wooden bridge, was built during the Middle Ages. This bridge connected the Eastern bank of the Seine (le quai Saint-Bernard) to l'île Saint-Louis. It was subsequently washed away by a flood on 21 January 1651. A stone bridge was erected in its place in 1658. It was demolished in 1918 and replaced by the current bridge in 1928, after it suffered several natural disasters, especially the flood of 1910.The Pont de la Tournelle was intentionally built lacking symmetry, in order to emphasize the shapeless landscape in the part of the Seine that it bestrides. Consisting of a grand central arch that links the riverbanks via two smaller arches, one on each side, it's decorated o...
|  #20 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Picasso Museum
Marais
~4.54 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Picasso Museum
The Musée Picasso is an art gallery located in the Hôtel Salé in rue de Thorigny, in the Marais district of Paris. The hôtel particulier that houses the collection was built between 1656 and 1659 for Pierre Aubert, seigneur de Fontenay, a tax farmer who became rich collecting the gabelle or salt tax (the name of the building means "salted"). The architect was Jean Boullier from Bourges, also known as Boullier de Bourges; sculpture was carried out by the brothers Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy and by Martin Desjardins. It is considered to be one of the finest historic houses in the Marais.The mansion has changed hands several times through both sales and inheritances. The occupants have included the Embassy of the Republic of Venice (1671), then François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi; it wa...
|  #21 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont Louis Philippe
Paris
~4.61 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont Louis Philippe
The Pont Louis-Philippe is a bridge across the River Seine in Paris. It is located in the 4th arrondissement, and it links the Quai de Bourbon on the Île Saint-Louis with the Saint-Gervais neighborhood on the right bank.On 29 July 1833, to celebrate his accession to the throne following the "Trois Glorieuses" (the three glorious days of the July Revolution) , Louis-Philippe laid the first stone for a previously-nameless suspension bridge, located on the extension of the Rue du Pont Louis Philippe. Built by Marc Seguin and his brothers, it crossed the Seine to the Île Saint-Louis. It was opened to traffic one year later, on 26 July 1834. After the French Revolution of 1848 (during which the bridge and its tollhouses were burnt down), it was restored and renamed "Pont de la Réforme", a n...
|  #22 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont de l'Archeveche
Paris
~4.64 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont de l'Archeveche
The Pont de l'Archevêché (Archbishop's Bridge) is a bridge crossing the Seine river in Paris, France.The bridge links the 4th Arrondissement, at the Île de la Cité, to the 5th Arrondissement, between the quai de Montebello and the quai de la Tournelle.Located near the metro station: Maubert-Mutualité.The Pont de l'Archevêché is the narrowest bridge in Paris. It was built in 1828, by the engineer Plouard, for the society Pont des Invalides after the demolition of the suspension bridge at Les Invalides.The bridge is 68 meters long and 11 meters high. It is composed of three arches of stone carrying heights of 15, 17, and 15 meters, respectively. The low clearance of the arches do cause an impediment to river traffic; however, in spite of a municipal decision in 1910 to rebuild ...
|  #23 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont Saint Louis
Paris
~4.65 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont Saint Louis
The pont Saint-Louis is a bridge across the River Seine in the IVe arrondissement of Paris. It links the Île de la Cité with the Île Saint-Louis. It is served by the Cité stop of the Paris Metro.The present bridge is the seventh to link the two islands since 1630. The pont Saint-Landry (1630-1634) was the first of these.In 1717 a wooden bridge was rebuilt, with seven arches, and named the "Pont Rouge", due to the colour in which it was painted. It was destroyed in 1795. In 1804, under the direction of the engineer Dumoustier, a new two-arch bridge was built, 70 m long and 10 m wide, and mainly in oak. It was demolished in 1811, and a suspension bridge replaced it in 1842. Twenty years later, this was replaced by a metallic bridge, with a single arch with a 64m opening. In 1939, this ...
|  #24 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Ecole Normale Superieure
Paris
~4.67 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Ecole Normale Superieure
The École Normale Supérieure (also known as Normale Sup’, Normale, ENS) is a French grande école (higher education establishment outside the mainstream framework of the public universities system). The ENS was initially conceived during the Revolution, and intended to provide the Republic with a new body of teachers, trained in the critical spirit and secular values of the Enlightenment. It has since developed into an elite institution which does not offer degrees as such, but become the platform for France's brightest young people to pursue high-level careers in government and academia.Its alumni have provided France with scores of philosophers, writers, scientists, statesmen and even churchmen. Among them are 12 laureates of the Nobel Prize and 9 recipients of the Fields medal.For a ...
|  #25 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Parc Montsouris
Paris
~4.74 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Parc Montsouris
Parc Montsouris is a public city park of Paris, in the 14th arrondissement, in Rive Gauche (the southern portion of the city proper). The park is 15 hectares in area and is designed in the style of an English garden, which was popular at the end of the 19th century. The park was created by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann as part of a plan to add green areas to Paris.The park is bounded to the south by the "Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris" (CIUP), to the north and east by relatively affluent residential flats, and to the west by the residential corridor surrounding the avenue Générale Leclerc.The water reservoir in the northeast portion of the park now covers a historical entrance to the Paris catacombs, which were primarily excavated as a quarry for building stones,
|  #26 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pantheon
Paris FR
~4.74 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pantheon
The Panthéon (Latin: Pantheon,[1] from Greek Pantheon, meaning "Every god") is a building in the Latin Quarter in Paris, containing the remains of distinguished French citizens.In 1744, King Louis XV of France suffered from a serious illness and vowed to replace the old church of the Abbey of St Genevieve if he recovered. He did recover, and entrusted Abel-François Poisson, marquis de Marigny with the fulfillment of his vow. In 1755, Marigny commissioned Jacques-Germain Soufflot to design the church, with construction beginning two years later. Due to the economic problems in France at this time, work proceeded slowly. In 1780, Soufflot died and was replaced by his student, Jean-Baptiste Rondelet. The remodeled Abbey of St. Genevieve was finally completed in 1790, but during the early st...
|  #27 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Notre Dame Cathedral, 4th
Paris
~4.74 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Notre Dame Cathedral, 4th
Notre Dame de Paris (in English: Our Lady of Paris), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral, is a Gothic, Roman Catholic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It is the cathedral of the Catholic archdiocese of Paris: that is, it is the church that contains the "cathedra", or official chair, of the Archbishop of Paris, André Cardinal Vingt-Trois. Notre Dame de Paris is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in France and in Europe. It was restored and saved from destruction by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, one of France's most famous architects. The name Notre Dame means "Our Lady" in French, and is frequently used in the names of Catholic church buildings in Francophone countries. Notre Dame de Paris was ...
| #28 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont au Double
Paris
~4.80 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont au Double
The Pont au Double is a bridge over the Seine in Paris, France.LocationThe bridge links the 4th and 5th arrondissements of Paris, from the Île de la Cité to the quai de Montebello.Located near the metro stations: Cité, Maubert-Mutualité or Cluny - La Sorbonne.In 1515, Francis I was asked to build a bridge over the small branch of the Seine in order to carry patients to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital on the Île de la Cité. Construction began in 1626 and in 1634 the two sides were connected.The Pont au Double derives its name from the toll amount which was charged, a "double" denier, money used to pay for the construction of the bridge.In 1709, the bridge collapsed. It was rebuilt and remained in place until 1847. In 1883, the Pont au Double was replaced by a one arch cast-iro...
| #29 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Pont d'Arcole
Paris
~4.81 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Pont d'Arcole
The Pont d'Arcole is a bridge in Paris over the River Seine. It is served by the Metro station Hôtel de Ville.The need for a bridge communicating between place de Grève (now Place de l'Hôtel-de-Ville) and the île de la Cité had been felt for years. Called the passerelle de Grève for the first two years of its life, its present name - according to the most generally accepted hypothesis - comes from the Battle of the Bridge of Arcole, in which Napoleon defeated the Austrians in 1796.It was only in 1828 that a suspension bridge for pedestrians with two 6m-wide carriageways, supported from a central pier in midstream, was built by Marc Seguin. In 1854, with increased traffic due to the prolongation of the rue de Rivoli, it was replaced by a more substantial metal structure that could a...
|  #30 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
Hotel de Ville
Paris
~4.82 miles from Saint Maurice city center
Hotels Close to Hotel de Ville
The Hôtel de Ville (French for "City Hall") in Paris, France, is the building housing the City of Paris's administration. Standing on the place de l'Hôtel de Ville (formerly the place de Grève) in the city's IVe arrondissement, it has been the location of the municipality of Paris since 1357. It serves multiple functions, housing the local administration, the Mayor of Paris – since 1977 –, and also being a venue for large receptions. The Mayor of Paris is Bertrand Delanoë, since 2001.It is located near the metro station: Hôtel de Ville.
|
| |
#1 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#2 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#3 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#4 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#5 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#6 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#8 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#9 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#10 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#11 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#12 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#13 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#14 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#15 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#16 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#17 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#18 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#19 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#20 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#21 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#22 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#23 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#24 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#25 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#26 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#27 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice
#30 of 30 Things To Do in Saint Maurice