Arab World Institute
The Arab World Institute is a multidisciplinary cultural center in Paris, opened in 1987 in the 5th district on the banks of the Seine. It is dedicated to dialogue between the Arab world, France, and Europe.
French Architecture
Moulin Rouge
Moulin Rouge is a Parisian cabaret founded in 1889 by Josep Oller and Charles Zidler. Located on boulevard de Clichy in Pigalle, it is known for its French cancan show and its distinctive hall architecture.
Musée d'Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay is a Parisian national museum on the left bank of the Seine, near the promenade Édouard-Glissant. Opened in 1986, it occupies the former Gare d'Orsay, converted into a museum by decision of President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.
Palais Garnier
Palais Garnier is a historic 1,979-seat opera house at Place de l'Opéra in Paris, built for the Paris Opera between 1861 and 1875. It became known for its opulence, Napoleon III style, and cultural prominence.
Stade Jean-Bouin
Stade Jean-Bouin is a multi-purpose sports venue in Paris, inaugurated in 1928 and located near Parc des Princes. It is mainly intended for rugby union and football and is named in honor of French runner Jean Bouin.
Parc des Princes
Parc des Princes is a multi-purpose stadium in the Auteuil district of Paris, partly above the périphérique. Inaugurated in 1897, it is the oldest stadium still in operation in France and has hosted major football, rugby, and concert events.
Élysée Palace
The Élysée Palace is an old Parisian mansion on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It has served as the headquarters of the French Presidency and the official residence of the head of state since the Third Republic.
Grand Palais
The Grand Palais, also known as Le Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts, is a monument in Paris on the edge of the Champs-Élysées. It stands opposite the Petit Palais and regularly hosts salons and exhibitions.
Louvre Palace
The Louvre Palace is an ancient royal palace in Paris, on the right bank of the River Seine. It stands between the Tuileries Gardens and the Church of Saint Germain of Auxerre, and its structure has evolved in stages since the 16th century.
Promenade des Anglais
Promenade des Anglais is a seafront avenue in Nice facing the Baie des Anges. Lined with prestigious hotels, it is closely linked to the beginnings of international tourism and is among the city’s best-known urban places.
Hôtel Ritz Paris
Hôtel Ritz Paris is a historic hotel in central Paris overlooking Place Vendôme in the 1st arrondissement. Founded in 1898, it is known for its luxury, notable guests, and literary and film associations.
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The Bibliothèque nationale de France is a French public cultural institution in Paris’s XIII arrondissement. Its physical collections are estimated at more than forty million items, and it is also known for the digital library Gallica.
Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir was a cabaret in Montmartre, Paris, founded in 1881 and closed in 1897. It featured singer-songwriters, shadow theatre, and piano music, and attracted many notable artists.
Île de la Cité
Île de la Cité is a river island in the Seine at the center of Paris. Considered the ancient cradle of the city, it lies in the 1st arrondissement and another arrondissement.
Accor Arena
Accor Arena is a versatile, modular arena on boulevard de Bercy in Paris’s Bercy district. Opened in 1984, it hosts sports events, concerts, and regular competitions in tennis and judo, and will also be used for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Les Bains-Douches
Les Bains-Douches was a nightclub in Paris, at 7, rue du Bourg-l’Abbé, active from 1978 to 2010. In the 1980s, it became a meeting place for international high society and artists, before closing in 2010.
Bataclan
Bataclan is a performance hall at 50, boulevard Voltaire in Paris. Built in 1864 by Charles Duval, it opened in 1865 and later became a historic monument.
Théâtre du Grand-Guignol
Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was a former theatre in Paris’s Pigalle district at 7, cité Chaptal. Opened in 1897 and closed in 1962, it specialized in horror shows and became associated with graphic horror entertainment.
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital is an Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris hospital on boulevard de l’Hôpital in Paris. It was formed by the fusion of hôpital de la Pitié and hôpital de la Salpêtrière and remains on its original site.
Luxembourg Palace
Luxembourg Palace, or Palais du Luxembourg, is a palace in the northern part of the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. Built at the beginning of the 17th century for Marie de Médicis, it has housed the French Senate since 1799.
Hôtel de Ville
Hôtel de Ville is the city hall of Paris and the seat of the city’s municipal institutions since 1357. Its history begins with earlier municipal jurisdictions before the Maison aux Piliers became the center of government. It is also associated with moments of unrest in Paris.
Comédie-Française
The Comédie-Française is a French cultural institution founded in 1680 and based in the Salle Richelieu at the Palais-Royal in Paris. It is the only national theater in France with a permanent troupe of actors, the Troupe des Comédiens-Français.
Adidas Arena
Adidas Arena is a multipurpose hall in Quartier de la Chapelle, in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. Also known as Paris Arena II or Arena Alice Milliat, it was primarily built for the 2024 Olympic Summer Games and Summer Paralympics.
Folies Bergère
Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall and theatre building in Paris, France, at 32 Rue Richer in the 9th Arrondissement. Opened in 1869 as Folies Trévise, it became Folies Bergère in 1872 and remains in business.
Avenue Foch
Avenue Foch is a wide avenue in Paris, extending from place Charles-de-Gaulle to porte Dauphine. Known for its gardens and large unpaved cavalier paths, it is regarded as one of the city’s most prestigious addresses.
Palais des Papes
The Palais des Papes in Avignon is a major Gothic palace and former papal residence. It was the seat of Western Christianity and hosted six conclaves, while its architecture combines a fortress and a more sumptuous papal palace.
Louis Vuitton Foundation
The Louis Vuitton Foundation is a corporate foundation created by the LVMH group and its houses. Its museum, designed by Frank Gehry, is located at Jardin d'acclimatation in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, and is dedicated to modern and contemporary art.
Palais de la Cité
Palais de la Cité is a historic palace on the Île de la Cité in central Paris. It served as a royal residence, then as a center of government and justice, and later as a tribunal and prison during the French Revolution.
Hôpital Édouard-Herriot
Hôpital Édouard-Herriot is a hospital at 5 place d'Arsonval in Lyon. Formerly called Grange-Blanche, it was designed by Tony Garnier and built between 1913 and 1933 as a pavilion hospital.
Palais Bourbon
Palais Bourbon is a governmental palace in Paris’s seventh district, on the left bank of the Seine opposite Place de la Concorde. It serves as the seat of the National Assembly and includes the Hôtel de Lassay on its west side.
Musée de l'Orangerie
Musée de l'Orangerie is a French national museum of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings in Paris, located in the Jardin des Tuileries. It displays Monet’s Nymphéas cycle in two oval rooms and presents works by major modern painters.
Olympia
Olympia is a concert hall and theatre building in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at 28 Boulevard des Capucines. Built in 1892 and opened in 1893, it has hosted opera, ballet, music hall performances, cinema screenings, and concerts.
Stade Roland-Garros
Stade Roland-Garros is a tennis stadium built in 1927 in the west of Paris near Bois de Boulogne. It hosts the annual Internationaux de France de tennis and the Paris Major Premier Padel.
Chaillot Palace
Chaillot Palace stands on Chaillot hill in Paris, in the 16th arrondissement at place du Trocadéro-et-du-11-Novembre. Built for the 1937 Exposition universelle, it replaced the palais du Trocadéro and is one of the event’s three permanent buildings.
Château de la Buzine
Château de la Buzine is a building in Marseille known for its link to Marcel Pagnol, who mentioned it in Souvenirs d’enfance and once owned it. Since 2010, it has hosted the Maison des cinématographies de la Méditerranée.
Gagosian Gallery
Gagosian Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in Los Angeles in 1980 and later expanded to New York and other international cities. It exhibits artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Cours Florent
Cours Florent is a French theatre school created in 1967 by François Florent. It offers professional training in acting and related disciplines, with campuses in Paris, Brussels, Montpellier, and Lormont.
Petit Palais
The Petit Palais is a historic building and fine arts museum in Paris’s 8th arrondissement, on Avenue Winston Churchill in the Champs Élysées area. Designed by Charles Girault for the 1900 Universal Exposition, it forms part of a monumental complex with the Grand Palais and the Pont Alexandre III.
Brasserie Georges
Brasserie Georges is a brewery and restaurant in Lyon, founded in 1836 by brewer Georges Hoffherr. Its dining room was redecorated in 1924 in Art Deco style, and the site is known for its historic interior and large service capacity.
French Communist Party headquarters
The headquarters of the French Communist Party is located in Paris at 2, place du Colonel-Fabien, where it has been based since 1971. Designed by Oscar Niemeyer, the building is known for its S-shaped form, smoked glass façades, and white dome.
Shakespeare and Company
Shakespeare and Company is an English-language bookstore at 37 rue de la Bûcherie in Paris’s 5th arrondissement. Opened by George Whitman in 1951 as Le Mistral, it became Shakespeare and Company in 1964 and also serves as a free reading library and bookseller.
City Walls of Paris
The city walls of Paris were a series of successive fortifications that surrounded the city from Antiquity to the 18th century, with a long interruption before demolition resumed in the 17th and 18th centuries. Few traces remain today.
Le Grand Rex
Le Grand Rex is a movie theater at 1 boulevard Poissonnière in the Sentier district. Its facades, roofs, hall, and decor are registered as historical monuments, and it receives about one million visitors each year.
Musée des Confluences
Musée des Confluences is a natural history and societies museum in Lyon, France, located at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers. It opened on 20 December 2014 as the successor to the Musée Guimet de Lyon.
Théâtre Femina
Théâtre Femina is a performance hall in Bordeaux, located at 10 rue de Grassi. Founded in 1921 by Victor Bonneterre and Ulysse Sédard, it became a cinema in the 1930s before returning to theater use at the end of the 1970s.
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences is a learned society founded in 1666 by Louis XIV, on the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Based in Paris, it was created to encourage and protect French scientific research.
Zénith de Toulouse
Zénith de Toulouse is a multifunctional concert hall in Toulouse’s TOEC district, completed and inaugurated in 1993. Its seating can be adjusted with mobile curtains, and it reached a capacity of 11,300 after an expansion in 2014.
Piscine Molitor
Piscine Molitor is a Paris swimming pool and hotel complex near the Bois de Boulogne, between Stade Roland-Garros and Parc des Princes. Inaugurated in 1929, it is noted for its Art Deco design and later reconstruction.