Found 16 locations in Culture tagged with "historic":
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Grand Palais
The big friendly giant
Back in 1894, a design competition was announced for a monumental new building that was conceived to be one of the architectura...
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Cinéma du Panthéon
The shining light of French cinema
The Cinéma du Panthéon is Paris' oldest surviving movie house and ever since its inauguration in February 1907, it has rightful...
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Avenue des Champs-Élysées
The one and only
Hardly does a more famous avenue exist in Europe than the grandiloquent Champs-Élysées. The two-kilometer-long stretch has been...
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Grand Rex
The oldest and largest in the land
In 1932, the Great Depression called for an even greater escape. To the assez cuckoo Jacques Haïk, this large-scale coping mech...
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Le Palace
Paris' Studio 54
Opened in 1923, this theater-cum-cinema then theater again was in a dire state of disrepair before Minister of Culture Michael ...
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Musée des lettres et manuscrits
Remains of history
Want to see Napoleon’s handwriting? Einstein’s personal notes on the theory of relativity? Curious about what an original parti...
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Les Grandes Ecuries
One to bet on
Chantilly is famous for three things: cream, lace (think the perfume) and horses. The town—about an hour from Paris on th...
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Père Lachaise
A veritable, venerable ghost town
Pay your respects to Balzac, Sarah Bernhardt, Pierre Bourdieu, Maria Callas, Oscar Wilde, Colette, Gertrude Stein and (the disp...
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Tour Saint-Jacques
A hidden tower in Paris
Very few people know the existence of this nearly 500-year-old, 62-meter-high bell tower located on the Right Bank. The mystery...
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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contempo...
Achieving architectural prowess
Jean Nouvel’s challenge was to turn 12,000 square feet and six stories of office space into a magnificent museum dedicated to c...
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Sacré Coeur
Beacon on a hill
Crowning the highest point in Paris with its iconic byzantine domes, Sacré Coeur holds a secure spot in the city's top ten list...
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Château de Versailles
All that glitters and whispers of grandeur
Louis XIV's pet project, the Château Versailles was aggrandized from a modest hunting lodge to a royal palace in 1623. Plucked ...
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Château de Vaux le Vicomte
Too close to the Sun (King)
Never was there a story of more woe than that of Monsieur Fouquet and his gros château. Finance minister and friend to Louis XI...
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Sainte Chapelle
Ethereal light effects
Slight in stature yet monumental in presence, Sainte Chappelle is truly a small wonder. Hidden within the grounds of the Palais...
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Les Catacombes
Beneath the city lights
Lurking underneath Paris’ bustling streets is a complex maze of macabre tunnels and tributaries known as "Les Catacombes." T...
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Musée de la Mode et du Textile
Sartorial Shangri-La
Set in the Rohan wing of Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Musée de la Mode et du Textile houses a whopping 6,000 costumes, 35,...