
Champs Elysées Avenue
Categories : Discover Paris, published on : 2/3/25
The Champs Elysées is an avenue in Paris almost 2 kilometers long. It connects Place de la Concorde to Place Charles de Gaulle Etoile. It is a major tourist site in Paris, and it is often represented as the most beautiful avenue in Paris and in the world. Originally, Marie de Medicis decided to build the royal palace of the Tuileries not far from the Champs Elysées which had been marshy until then.
Louis XIV, in his desire to expand and beautify the capital, will raze the fortifications and open large avenues in Paris.
André Le Nôtre, landscaper of the Palace of Versailles and the Tuileries Palace, was then responsible for developing an axis which should offer a grandiose perspective from the Tuileries Palace. He will then trace the Grand Cours which will take the name of the Champs Elysées in 1709. The axis then consists of grass and elms.
In 1789 the axis of the Champs Elysées definitively became Avenue des Champs Elysées, it will be made popular because it will be the axis by which the royal family, on the run, will be brought back to Paris after the French revolution. After several developments, the Avenue des Champs Elysées became the fashionable place in 1855, with the Universal Exhibition and the construction of the Palais de l'Industrie.
The avenue is adorned with buildings, private mansions and bourgeois houses. It becomes the mecca of elegant Parisian life. The Palais de l’Industrie will also host the universal exhibitions of 1878 and 1889. Nowadays, the Avenue des Champs Elysées offers a beautiful promenade with many luxury stores, hotels and restaurants.
Welcome to the golden triangle of Paris!
Join the Avenue des Champs Elysées from the Hôtel De Castiglione:
Take metro 1 from Concorde station to Charles De Gaulle Etoile station.
By walking from Place de la Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe Place Charles de Gaulle Etoile.