PARIS

It honors those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.

• le Panthéon

• l'Arc de Triomphe

• la Tour Eiffel

The name given to the twenty administrative districts that divide the city of Paris. The twenty districts are arranged in the form of a clockwise spiral (often likened to a snail shell), starting from the middle of the city, with the first on the Right Bank (north bank) of the Seine.

• les arrondissements

• les rives

• les Buttes-Chaumont

These are excursion boats on the Seine.

Passengers can see, among other sites, the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Pont Neuf, the Orsay Museum, the Louvre Museum, and Les Invalides. On busy days in high season, boats constantly move up and down the river.

• les rives

• les Invalides

• les Bateaux Mouches

Open in 1887, it is the fifth-largest public park in Paris. The most famous feature of the park is the Temple de la Sibylle, inspired by the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy, and perched at the top of a cliff fifty meters above the artificial lake.

• les Invalides

• les Buttes-Chaumont

• les Bateaux-Mouches

Its construction was ordered by Napoleon and started in 1802. It is 4.6 km (2.86 mi) long. It is drained and cleaned every 10-15 years, and it is always a source of fascination for Parisians to discover curiosities and even some treasures among the hundreds of tonnes of discarded objects. Today, the canal is a popular destination for Parisians and tourists.

• le Panthéon

• le Jardin du Luxembourg

• le Canal Saint-Martin

They are underground ossuaries in Paris which hold the remains of more than six million people. This ossuary was created as part of the effort to eliminate the city's overflowing cemeteries. Preparation work began not long after a 1774. It became a novelty-place for concerts and other private events in the early 19th century; after further renovations, it was open to public visitation from 1874.

• les Catacombes

• les Invalides

• le Cimetière du Père Lachaise

Library and modern art museum, it opened in 1977. It was the first major example of an 'inside-out' building in architectural history, with its structural system, mechanical systems, and circulation exposed on the exterior of the building. Initially, all of the functional structural elements of the building were color-coded: green pipes are plumbing, blue ducts are for climate control, electrical wires are encased in yellow, and circulation elements and devices for safety (e.g., fire extinguishers) are red.

• le Musée d'Orsay

• le Louvre

• le Centre Pompidou

It is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, 1.9 kilometers (1.2 mi) long and 70 meters (230 ft) wide, running between the Place de la Concorde and the Place Charles de Gaulle, where the Arc de Triomphe is located. It is known for its theaters, cafés, and luxury shops, for the annual Bastille Day military parade, and as the finish of the Tour de France cycle race.

• les Champs Élysées

• les Buttes-Chaumont

• le Zénith

It is the largest cemetery in Paris (110 acres). It opened in 1804. With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world.

Jim Morisson of The Doors is buried there and his grave is one of the most visited!

• le Père Lachaise

• le Palais Garnier

• la Madeleine

This monument at the centre of the square of the same name was erected by Napoleon I to commemorate the Battle of Austerlitz; it was torn down in 1871 but re-erected and remains a prominent feature on the square today.

• le Panthéon

• la Colonne Vendôme

• l'Obélisque