Stade de France
France beat Brazil 3-0 here to win the 1998 World Cup.
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France's national stadium is as much engineering as shrine: a roof that shades all 81,338 seats yet deliberately stops short of the grass, and a field that reconfigures between football and athletics.
What to look for
- The 13,000-ton elliptical roof spanning six hectares over the stands, but never covering the pitch.
- Tinted glass that filters out red and infrared light while passing blue and green through to keep the turf alive.
- The 22,000-seat lower tier that rolls back on ten 700-ton segments to expose the athletics track beneath, an 80-hour transformation.
In Saint-Denis just north of Paris: RER B or D, or Metro Line 14 to Saint-Denis-Pleyel.
Stade de France 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.
- Champs-ÉlyséesA single 1.9-km straight line runs from the Concorde obelisk to the Arc de Triomphe — Paris's ceremonial spine on the Axe historique.
- 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.