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From the Eiffel Tower to Concorde along the Seine

This route starts with the best view of the Eiffel Tower and follows the Seine to the largest square in Paris. Along the way you will find that almost everything you see was born for a World's Fair, and that even a stone soldier helps Parisians measure how high the river is running.

  • 6 stops
  • 3.7 km
  • 2 h 30 min
  • Free
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The Eiffel Tower from the Champ de Mars

The route

Stop by stop

  1. 1 Trocadéro and the Palais de ChaillotThe terrace with the most famous view of the Eiffel Tower is named after a battle fought in Cádiz, Spain.
  2. 2 Eiffel TowerThe tower that was meant to last twenty years, and that the artists of Paris tried to stop.
  3. 3 Pont de l'Alma: the Zouave and the FlameA stone soldier who measures the Seine's floods and a golden flame that became a spontaneous memorial.
  4. 4 Pont Alexandre IIIA single steel arch, gold and nymphs to seal the alliance between the French Republic and the Tsar.
  5. 5 Grand Palais and Petit PalaisTwin palaces built for the 1900 World's Fair, beneath one of the largest glass roofs in Europe.
  6. 6 Place de la ConcordeThe square that honoured one king, guillotined another and ended up ruled by an Egyptian obelisk over three thousand years old.

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What you’ll discover

From the Eiffel Tower to Concorde along the Seine

The postcard view

The Eiffel Tower from Trocadéro, then from right beneath it.

Legacy of the World's Fairs

A tower, a bridge and palaces built to show the world what Paris could do.

A river full of stories

Floods, an alliance between empires and a flame that became a memorial.

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