40 Avenue de Friedland, 75008 ParisHotel Napoleon Elysees Paris
Luxury Hotel with 102 rooms and meeting rooms, located next to the Champs Elysees and the Arc de Triomphe.
34 avenue de Wagram, 75008 ParisHotel Ceramic Elysees Paris
3 star hotel with its famous ceramic facade at walking distance from the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees.
15 rue Bassano, 75116 ParisHotel Bassano Elysees Paris
4 star hotel in Paris near the avenue Marceau between the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower.
Trocadero
If you don’t how to get to the Eiffel Tower (bad tourist!), Trocadéro would be the place to start. Stood on a hill overlooking our most famous monument, it’s not only great for photos but also for culture; in the Palais de Chaillot, the huge symmetrical building dating from the Universal Exposition of 1937 that swings out and around on both sides, you’ll find three museums, a theatre and the Café de l’Homme ,a very posh restaurant with a very special view… The building has also played its part in history. This is where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed in 1948.
Walk down the hill and through the bucolic gardens - unsurprising called the Jardin du Trocadéro - and you’ll come across the entrance to Cinéaqua, Paris’ huge (and expensive) aquarium (the rest is buried into the hillside), some statues from the 1930s and the Warsaw fountain - Paris’ biggest - more than 100 metres long with impressive water cannons and eight levels of waterfalls.
Once at the bottom, all you have to do is cross over the Seine and you’re ready to visit that big brown iron thing. What was it called again?... ;-)
How to get there
Metro 6, 9 :
Trocadero
Champs-Élysées news
from the 2010-03-11 until the 2010-09-12
Beat Takeshi Kitano
Gosse de peintre
Upon the invite of the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, he has dreamed up an original exhibition on childhood. Come and discover this virtuoso’s creations in his paintings, films, incongruous objects, sets and terrific fantasy machines.
Takeshi Kitano, a.k.a. Beat Takeshi, is a famous film-maker, actor, TV presenter and painter whose entire work explores a bitter-sweet world marked by nostalgia for childhood.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris
Metro Line 4 or 6 : Denfert Rochereau
