Champs-Élysées
A single 1.9-km straight line runs from the Concorde obelisk to the Arc de Triomphe — Paris's ceremonial spine on the Axe historique.
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Two avenues in one. The lower, Concorde end is a park — the Jardin des Champs-Élysées, holding the Grand and Petit Palais; above the Rond-Point roundabout it climbs toward the Arc as a run of flagship stores.
What to look for
- The Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, the roundabout dividing the garden stretch from the shop-lined stretch above — greenery behind you, retail ahead.
- Rows of chestnut trees, which replaced Le Nôtre's original elms after those fell into poor health.
- Store street numbers: Chanel at 60, Apple at 114, Dior at 127, Cartier at 154.
On the first Sunday of each month (since 2016) the road closes to cars and you can walk the tarmac itself; otherwise it carries about 3,000 vehicles an hour.
Champs-Élysées is one of 33 sights worth the detour in Paris, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Paris pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Paris
- Eiffel TowerThe 300-metre iron tower Parisian artists petitioned against before it was even finished.
- Louvre MuseumThe world's most-visited museum lives inside a 12th-century fortress that became a royal palace.
- Notre-Dame de ParisThe spire fell on live TV in April 2019; since December 2024 you can walk back inside.
- Musée d'OrsayVan Gogh and Monet hung inside a Beaux-Arts station built for the Paris–Orléans railway.
- Place de la BastilleThe prison that lit a revolution is gone — and the mob that stormed it on 14 July 1789 came for gunpowder, not the seven forgotten men inside.
- Arc de TriompheNapoleon ordered it after Austerlitz in 1806; twelve avenues still radiate from the star-shaped square around it.