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A mosque in Paris's 5th arrondissement, completed in 1926 in the Moorish Revival style around a courtyard modelled on the Alhambra in Granada. The oldest mosque in mainland France, it holds prayer rooms, a library, a garden, a hammam, a gift shop and a restaurant.

A gallery of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in the Jardin des Plantes, designed by Charles Rohault de Fleury and opened in 1841 as France's first purpose-built museum building. Its "Treasures of the Earth" exhibition shows around 600 minerals, gemstones and giant crystals from a wider collection of some 770,000 specimens.

Saint-Roch is a Baroque and classical parish church on Rue Saint-Honoré in central Paris, built between 1653 and 1740 and dedicated to Saint Roch. Its long nave passes several side chapels before reaching an oval sanctuary behind the high altar. The church also hosts evening concerts under the name Les Nuits de Saint-Roch.

A wax museum on the Grands Boulevards, founded in 1882 by journalist Arthur Meyer and named after caricaturist Alfred Grévin, its first artistic director. It displays around 450 wax figures of historical and contemporary personalities, and includes the Palais des Mirages, a mirrored hall built for the 1900 World's Fair.

A museum of French art from 1848 to 1914, housed in a former railway station, the Gare d'Orsay, built in 1898-1900 to designs by Victor Laloux and others. It opened as a museum in 1986 and holds the world's largest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist paintings, alongside sculpture and decorative arts.

The Musée Zadkine occupies the house and garden studio of sculptor Ossip Zadkine in the 6th arrondissement, near the Luxembourg Gardens. It became a public museum in 1982 and shows around 300 of his sculptures together with drawings, photographs and tapestries, with more works displayed in the garden.

A rectangular square in Paris's 1st arrondissement, laid out from 1698 under Louis XIV with uniform arcaded facades designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. At its centre stands the Vendôme Column, cast from captured cannon and erected on Napoleon I's orders to commemorate the Battle of Austerlitz.

A public garden between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde in Paris's 1st arrondissement, laid out by Catherine de' Medici in 1564 as the grounds of the Tuileries Palace and opened to the public in 1667. Statues, fountains and two octagonal ponds line its formal, tree-bordered paths.

The Palais Garnier is an opera house on Place de l'Opéra in central Paris, built between 1861 and 1875 to a design by Charles Garnier for Napoleon III. Its auditorium seats about 1,979 people beneath a painted ceiling by Marc Chagall. It was the Paris Opera's main stage until 1989 and is now used mainly for ballet.

An exhibition space at Place de la Concorde built in 1861 as a court for jeu de paume, a precursor of tennis, and converted into a gallery in 1909. Renovated in 1991, it is now France's national centre for photography and media arts, mounting changing exhibitions of contemporary photographers and video artists.

The Musée de l'Orangerie is an art gallery in the west corner of the Tuileries Garden, in a former orangery built in 1852 to shelter the garden's citrus trees. It houses eight large Water Lilies murals by Claude Monet, installed in two oval rooms, alongside works by Cézanne, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso, Renoir and Soutine.

A neoclassical building on Place de la Concorde designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel and built between 1757 and 1774, first as the royal furniture repository and, from 1789, as the French Navy's headquarters until 2015. Restored and reopened in 2021, it shows the furnished 18th-century apartments of its royal keeper, gilded naval salons and works from the Al Thani collection.

Place de la Concorde is a public square between the Tuileries Garden and the Champs-Élysées, laid out by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel in the 1770s. At its centre stands a 3,300-year-old Egyptian obelisk from Luxor, a gift from Egypt's ruler erected in 1836, flanked by two 19th-century fountains.

A Catholic parish church on Place de la Madeleine in Paris's 8th arrondissement, built in the form of a Greek temple and ringed by Corinthian columns. Planned under Louis XV, redesigned by Napoleon as a monument to his armies, and finished as a church only in 1842, it holds frescoes and sculptures by 19th-century French artists.

The Musée Rodin occupies the Hôtel Biron, an 18th-century mansion in the 7th arrondissement, and its surrounding garden. It holds the sculptor Auguste Rodin's work, including bronze casts of The Thinker and The Gates of Hell displayed outdoors. The museum opened in 1919, after Rodin donated his collection to the French state.

The Chapelle expiatoire is a Neoclassical chapel in the 8th arrondissement, built in 1816-1826 on the site of the former Madeleine Cemetery, where Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were buried after their executions. Designed by Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, it stands in a walled garden, Square Louis XVI.

A military museum inside the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex Louis XIV ordered built in 1670 to house disabled soldiers. Formed in 1905 from two older collections, it covers military history from antiquity to the Second World War, and its Dome Church holds Napoleon's tomb, completed in 1861, twenty years after his remains returned from Saint Helena.

The Catacombs of Paris are underground ossuaries beneath the city's former stone quarries, reached from a small entrance pavilion near Place Denfert-Rochereau. From 1786, the remains of more than six million people were moved here from Paris's overflowing cemeteries. A signed route leads visitors through about 1.5 kilometres of tunnels lined with bones.

The Musée Bourdelle preserves the working studio of sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who used it from 1885 until his death in 1929, at 18 Rue Antoine Bourdelle. It opened as a museum in 1949 and was later extended by architects Henri Gautruche and Christian de Portzamparc. The collection holds more than 500 of his plaster, marble and bronze works.

The Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin occupies former toll pavilions at Place Denfert-Rochereau, above the bunker that served as Colonel Rol-Tanguy's command post in August 1944. It moved to this address in 2019 and covers the liberation of Paris and the wartime Resistance.