Arc de Triomphe
Friday, 24th June 2005 by James Turnbull
Arc de Triomphe at the centre of some eternally busy roads in Paris (more info).
Thanks: Bill Kendrick, nixx, Thomas, Keith, Nels N Nelson, gIMpSTa, Chris Granger, Don Campbell, Jim L., ringo, Donald P., numlok, Jason Hale
If you follow Champs Élysées to the east you’ll end up on the Place de la Concorde, with a big arabic obelisque in the centre, and then Jardin des Tuileries and, finally, the Louvre, with the famous glass pyramid.
Following the Champs Élysées to the west, across the Seinne, you’ll find La Défense, kind of the Manhatten of Paris. Well, sorta kind of.
There’s a lot more cool stuff to be found in Paris, though, so keep your eyes open and your mouse busy!
the place with the most f up traffic in the world. there aren’t lains, there’s just pure chaos
Close up this looks like one of those SimCities where someone’s made it really symmetrical to look nice but totally forgot about traffic management…
GTA2 Paris?
I bet a lot of tourist get trapped in that rotary (that’s all I can think of when I see it anyway). I count about 8 “lanes” wide? Maybe more? That’s just insane.
Lanes Gimpsta? There aint no lanes.
There’s a passageway underneath the road for pedestrians who like to get to the otherside without dying.
“There’s a passageway underneath the road for pedestrians who like to get to the otherside without dying.”
I thought you had to die to get to the “otherside” 🙂
I have been there and it is pure madness. There are twelve lanes that you can leave and exit through. (If you are on the ground you can see they form a nice litte star) If you are actually at the arc (I was there a few months ago) it is pure madness. There are no lanes. As well, the government could fix this problem and have tried but to much protest from the Parisians. Similarly you will only find one skyscraper in main Paris,
As well, the southeast of the Arc you will find Les Invalides which is where Napoleon is burried. As well there is a really nice WWI and WWII museum there which is really interesting. Directly across from Invalides is the Rodin Museum with the famous “The Thinker” statue. You can just make it out as a tiny dot but it is located to the right of the giant building and is the top left square of that small building to the right.
I forgot to mention, Here is that one skyscraper. You won’t see anything else in central Paris, but once you leave that area and go to the outskirts, that is where the skyscrapers are.
here is the correct link for la Tour Montparnasse that Luke speaks of
What is this on the west side of Paris? View Placemark
Must be something historical, ’cause they’ve built this crazy long tunnel for a highway and a train to go underneath it. All I can find on maps is “Saint Germane En Laye”. What is the history here?
Here is Versailles View Placemark
Robert thats why i put it in qoutes. I was counting how many lanes it COULD be.
to TD : It is Saint Germain en Laye castle.
It was build in 1122 and used (and transformed) by french kings until the revolution
Although les reknowed than Versailles, Saint Germain en Laye is closer from Paris (thus was more convenient).
About the “Place de l’étoile”, well, you got to got used to it. There is nothing to do to make it better. It is too large and 12 large avenues are connected to it.
To Salfara : There was no motorized traffic when it was designed.
That’s fun you can see my house on the Montparnasse tower shot, and my girlfriends on Saint Germain en Laye’s one (not Germane! 🙂 ). The place de l’étoile is the most fun place ever to drive a scooter, I love it! I althought hate it since doing a course of road management abroad it was given as an exemple of the worst mess ever in the world, and people kinf of made fun of me because of it! 😀 Note; there are lane on the place de l’étoile, but there are in the shape of star in order to make the mess even bigger! It is such a mess that whatever happens on it the responsability will be equally shared by both drivers.
my friend just came back from Paris, and the tour guide told here that no car insurance in the world will cover an accident at that round about. There is a car accident every 12 mins
And here is the Eiffel Tower:
View Placemark
You can identify it by its enormous shadow!