The Pantheon Paris : Paris Tourism

Description

Place du Panthéon
75005 Paris

Opens everyday from 10 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. during winter
Opens everyday from 9.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. during summer.
Closes on public holyidays

Ordered by King Louis XV, the Pantheon comes from the 18th Century.
The architect Jacques Germain Soufflot had the duty to build a commemorating monument to Saint Genevieve to who he owes his miraculous cure. Soufflot mixed the architectural styles : the outside walls are inspired from the roman Pantheon, whereas French Classicist style takes place in the centre of Greek and gothic styles.

The Pantheon was decided to be the necropolis of important men during the Revolution : some of them were Mirabeau, Voltaire, or Rousseau.
The fourty two windows had been walled in order to give a more sepulchral aspect to the monument. However, different forms of governments succeeding to each others, the Pantheon didn’t stop oscillating between civil and religious devoting. The building is being used to commemorate important men since the death of Victor Hugo whose corps had been transferred to the monument in 1885. on the front is written “to great men, the greatful country”

Leon Foucault used the monument as a laboratory. He installed a pendulum to prove the earth turns on itself.

The last important ceremonies happened in the middle of the 20th Century.
The ashes of Jean Moulin were transferred to the Pantheon in 1964. in this occasion André Malraux did a famous speech in the presence of the General de Gaulle. André Malraux himself found his last rest in the same monument on the 23rd of November, 1996. the last successor was Alexandre Dumas.

(Distance < 1 km)
Info: Located in the heart of the Latin Quarter, Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon is set in an 18th-century building opposite the Panthéon. It offers elegant guest rooms with free Wi-Fi and a minibar.

All air-conditioned guest rooms are equipped......

(Distance < 1 km)
Info: Set in an 18th-century building opposite the Panthéon, this hotel is 400 metres from the Luxembourg Garden. It has a 24-hour reception with a tour desk and a ticket service.

Each air-conditioned guest room is equipped with cable TV,......

(Distance < 1 km)
Info: Located in the Latin Quarter, the Senlis is set between the Luxembourg Gardens and the Panthéon. It offers en-suite guestrooms with cable TV and free Wi-Fi.

The Hotel De Senlis provides a continental breakfast in the dining room and it......

(Distance < 1 km)
Info: Located 250 metres from the Luxembourg Garden, this hotel offers luxurious guest rooms set in an 18th-century building at the heart of the Latin Quarter. It features a small courtyard.

The soundproofed guest rooms are equipped with a......

(Distance < 1 km)
Info: Hotel Design Sorbonne is a boutique hotel located on Paris's Left Bank in the heart of the Latin Quarter. Just 240 metres from Luxembourg Gardens, it offers stylish and modern guestrooms with an Apple iMac computer.

The brightly......