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A single-span steel arch bridge over the Seine in Paris, built between 1896 and 1900 and named for Tsar Alexander III of Russia, who had signed the Franco-Russian Alliance in 1892. Its Beaux-Arts design by Joseph Cassien-Bernard and Gaston Cousin carries Art Nouveau lamps and four gilt-bronze statues of Fames at the approaches.

A Beaux-Arts palace built for the 1900 World's Fair by architect Charles Girault, facing the Grand Palais across Avenue Winston-Churchill. It houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts, with collections spanning antiquity to the 20th century, including the Dutuit collection of medieval and Renaissance works and the Tuck collection of 18th-century furniture.

The Musée de la Vie Romantique occupies an 1830s townhouse in the 9th arrondissement that was once the Paris home of painter Ary Scheffer. It opened as a museum in 1982, with rooms on the first floor devoted to writer George Sand and, on the second, Romantic-era paintings, sculpture and furniture.

The François-Mitterrand site is the main building of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, designed by architect Dominique Perrault and opened in 1996 around an esplanade with four glass towers shaped like open books. It holds a public library, a research library and exhibition spaces.

A glass-roofed exhibition hall in Paris's 8th arrondissement, built for the 1900 Universal Exposition on the site of the former Palace of Industry. Its Beaux-Arts stone facades and iron-and-glass vaults, renovated and reopened in 2025, now host temporary art exhibitions and events.

A cemetery opened in 1804 on the order of Napoleon Bonaparte, laid out by architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart across 44 hectares of landscaped, tree-lined paths in eastern Paris. More than a million people are buried here, including Frédéric Chopin, Honoré de Balzac, Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison, alongside a columbarium and crematorium added in 1894.

A film archive and museum founded in 1936 by Henri Langlois and Lotte Eisner, housed since 2005 in a building by Frank Gehry at Bercy that formerly held the American Center. It holds one of the largest collections of film-related documents and objects in the world and runs the Musée Méliès, on the pioneering film-maker Georges Méliès.

The Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in the Pigalle district, opened in 1889 and marked by the red windmill on its facade. It is linked to the origins of the modern can-can dance and stages a nightly revue; the original building burned down in 1915 and reopened after reconstruction in 1925.

The Sacré-Cœur is a Roman Catholic basilica on the hill of Montmartre, built between 1875 and 1914 in a Romano-Byzantine style from travertine stone that whitens with rain. Its dome can be climbed for views over Paris, and the interior holds a large mosaic of Christ above the choir.

Dalí Paris, formerly Espace Dalí, is a museum near Place du Tertre in Montmartre devoted to Salvador Dalí. Opened in 1991, it displays around 300 sculptures, engravings and lithographs based on Dalí's surrealist work, curated from the Dalí Universe collection.

A museum in a group of 17th-century houses on Montmartre, including the Maison du Bel Air, where the actor Rosimond lived from 1680. Renoir painted here in 1876, and Suzanne Valadon and her son Maurice Utrillo later lived and worked on the site. Opened in 1960, it shows paintings, photographs and posters on the district's history, in a garden replanted after Renoir's paintings.

The Champs-Élysées is an avenue running about 1.9 kilometres between Place de la Concorde and the Arc de Triomphe, lined with plane trees, shops, cinemas and cafés. Laid out as a garden promenade in the 17th century, it took its present form through 19th-century redevelopment.

The Musée Jacquemart-André occupies a mansion built in 1869-1875 for banker Édouard André, on Boulevard Haussmann. He and his wife, painter Nélie Jacquemart, filled it with Italian Renaissance and 18th-century French art, which she bequeathed to the Institut de France. It opened as a museum in 1913 and keeps its original furnished rooms.

Musée Cernuschi is an Asian art museum on Avenue Vélasquez, near Parc Monceau, founded in 1898 by banker and collector Henri Cernuschi in his former mansion. Its roughly 15,000-object collection, mostly Chinese and Japanese, includes an 18th-century bronze Buddha from Meguro and archaic Chinese bronzes.

The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is an anthropology museum near the Eiffel Tower, designed by architect Jean Nouvel and opened in 2006. Its collection covers the art and material culture of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, displayed along a curving ramp and in a garden-side building. A planted wall covers part of its street-facing facade.

The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris occupies the east wing of the Palais de Tokyo, built for the 1937 International Exhibition. Opened in 1961 and reopened in 2019 after renovation, it holds around 15,000 works of 20th- and 21st-century art, including paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Léger.

The Palais de Tokyo is a building on Avenue du Président Wilson built for the 1937 International Exhibition. Its western wing has hosted a contemporary art centre since 2002, staging temporary exhibitions across large industrial-style galleries. The eastern wing houses the city's Museum of Modern Art.

The Cité de l'Économie, known as Citéco, is a museum about economics housed in the Hôtel Gaillard, a neo-Gothic mansion built for banker Émile Gaillard, designed by architect Jules Février. It opened to the public in June 2019, with interactive exhibits on economic concepts and history.

Palais Galliera is an Italian Renaissance-style palace built between 1879 and 1894 by architect Léon Ginain, funded by the Duchess of Galliera. It is the City of Paris's fashion museum, holding about 70,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to today, shown through rotating temporary exhibitions rather than a permanent display.

The Eiffel Tower is a 330-metre lattice iron tower on the Champ de Mars, built between 1887 and 1889 by Gustave Eiffel's company as the entrance arch for the 1889 World's Fair. Three levels are open to visitors, reached by lift or stairs, with restaurants on the first two floors and Eiffel's restored apartment on the top level.