Arc de Triomphe — iZeusUpsistos (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Ready-made walk · Paris

Eiffel Tower and Monumental West Paris

7 stops · ~3 hr 40 min · 6.6 km

Grand Monuments

A longer walk through the city's monumental west, from Rodin's sculpture garden and the Hôtel des Invalides to the working sewers beneath the Alma bridge and the stone Zouave that Parisians have long used to read the Seine's floods. Then the Eiffel Tower, the terraces of the Palais de Chaillot and, finally, the Arc de Triomphe.

The stops, in walking order

iZeusUpsistos (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Stop 1: Arc de Triomphe
~3 min here
The Arc de Triomphe rises before you as a monumental arch of pale stone, its broad opening framed by powerful sculpted groups.
iAlfvanBeem (CC0)
Stop 2: Palais de Chaillot
~3 min here
Palais de Chaillot is the monumental building spread across Chaillot Hill above the Trocadéro.
iBenh LIEU SONG (Public domain)
Stop 3: Tour Eiffel
~3 min here
The Eiffel Tower rises before you as an immense iron lattice structure, assembled for the Paris World’s Fair and now inseparable from the city’s image.
iRomain91 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Stop 4: Musée des égouts
~1 hr here
The Musée des égouts is a museum built into real, working Paris sewers beneath the Habib-Bourguiba esplanade near the Alma bridge.
iGreudin (Public domain)
Stop 5: Le Zouave
~3 min here
Le Zouave is the stone soldier built into the upstream face of the pont de l’Alma’s right-bank pier.
iAnother one of my pictures: This photograph was taken by Medium69 (William Crochot) and released under the license stated below. You are free to use it for any purpose as long as you credit the author (William Crochot), the Source (Wikimedia Commons) and the license (CC-BY-SA 4.0) in close relation to the image. Please do not upload an updated image here without consultation with the Author. The author would like to make corrections only at his own source RAW. This ensures that the changes are preserved.Please if you think that any changes should be required, please inform the author.Otherwise you can upload a new image with a new name. Please use one of the templates derivative or extract. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Stop 6: Hôtel des Invalides
~3 min here
Les Invalides is a vast Parisian complex devoted to France’s military history, combining museums, churches, monuments, a hospital, and accommodation for former soldiers.
iJean-Pierre Dalbéra (CC BY 2.0)
Stop 7: Musée Rodin
~1 hr here
Musée Rodin is an art museum devoted chiefly to Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, housed here in the Hôtel Biron and its grounds.