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It is home to the Musée de l’Homme anthropology museum, the Cinema Museum, the Cinémathèque, the Cité de l’architecture the Chaillot National Theatre and the National Navy Museum. Designed by Azema, Carlu and Boileau, the palace was built for the Paris World’s Fair of 1937. It features two curve-shaped wings pointing down to the Seine with a vast esplanade, l’Esplanade des Droits de l’Homme, between them. The Eiffel Tower and Champs de Mars are down beneath.

Created for the Paris World's Fair of 1878, they then stretched out in front of a Hispano-Moresque palace, replaced by the Chaillot Palace in 1937. Appreciated by both walkers and skaters, its alleys and slopes offer stunning views of the Eiffel Tower. In summer, Parisians cool off around the famous Warsaw Fountains (built in 1937), featuring a big central basin dominated by a series of cascading pools which, with their 20 water cannons, offer a remarkable water display.

Measuring 324 metres, the impressive “Iron Lady” overlooks the Trocadéro Gardens. Designed by Gustave Eiffel, it was built for the Paris World’s Fair to celebrate a centenary of the French Revolution. Inaugurated on March, 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower took more than 2 years to be constructed and has become a symbol of Paris.

In the heart of the former village of Passy, this is the only Balzac’s residence still in existence. That’s the place where the famous French novelist lived from 1840 to 1847, imagined The Human Comedy and wrote some of his most beautiful novels, such as The Black Sheep, A Harlot High and Low, Cousin Bette and Cousin Pons. Acquired by the City of Paris in 1949, it was converted into a museum and provided with a library later on. Containing original manuscripts, it offers an insight into Balzac’s life and oeuvre.

Musée Marmottan-Monet

Established in 1934, the museum is housed in a beautiful 19th-century mansion surrounded by a garden. A former hunting lodge, this empire-style building quaintly stands out in a more recent architectural setting. With its look and feel of a private residence and the many art pieces it houses, it was bequeathed to the Institut de France by Paul Marmottan (1856-1932), a French art historian and collector. Having received several major bequests, the museum abandoned its original vocation and became one of the impressionist hot spots in Paris. Today, its lavish interior, mixing golds, marbles and precious woods, hosts sublime impressionist paintings by Monet and his friends

Housed in Palais de Tokyo’s building, designed for the International Art and Technical Exhibition in 1937, the Modern Art Museum opened in 1961. Having received its core holdings from the “modern” collections of the Petit Palais, the museum was endowed by art collectors, such as Emanuele Sarmiento, Mathilde Amos, Ambroise Vollard. The museum’s collection features over 8,000 artworks representing diverse art movements of the 20th century. The museum’s most popular events include exhibitions themed around major European artists and art trends and of the 20th century, monographic and theme-based exhibitions offering an insight into today’s art.

The Tuileries Gardens were redesigned by André Le Nôtre, King Louis XIV's architect. Starting from Palais de Tuileries, the hub he traced and that became, later on, the famous Champs- Elysées, allowed the Sun King to follow the sun’s course across the sky and to see it touch the horizon at its western extremity. No wonder this avenue, stretching from Place de la Concorde to Place Charles de Gaulle – Etoile, got such a bright, visionary future.

The arch was designed by the architect Jean- François Chalgrin, upon commission by Napoleon I, to commemorate the victories of the French army. Started in 1806, the construction works took more than thirty years and were completed under Louis-Philippe. With its majestic, Antiquity-inspired architecture, the Arch is set in the middle of Place de l’Etoile, from where it dominates the Champs-Elysées Avenue. The pedestals feature 4 allegorical high-reliefs by Cortot, Etex and Rude, including the famous “Marseillaise”. Located halfway between the Louvre and Grande Arche de la Défense, it is a link between the old and the new Paris.

Designed by the architect Jean Nouvel, it is dedicated to primitive art from Africa, Asia, Oceania and America. The museum’s collection features some 300,000 exhibits, Under UNESCO’s high patronage, the Quai Branly Museum offers a whole range of viewpoints, from the ethnologists’ to the art historians’, on civilizations whose cultural heritages tend to be relegated to a second tier on a global cultural scale.

Built for the Paris World’s Fair of 1900, it houses the Palais de la Découverte Museum, dedicated to sciences and their applications (opened in 1937), the National Galleries of the Grand Palais, where international art exhibitions are held (opened in 1964), and the nave, today restored, hosting cultural and other events.