Arc de Triomphe to Parc Monceau

Paris, France

50 tickets 2.9 km · about 1 hr 30 mins · 8 stops · Standard walk How Walking Tickets work

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This walk reveals Paris as a stage for power and pleasure, from imperial grandeur to aristocratic fantasy. It begins with the Arc de Triomphe and Avenue Hoche, where grand avenues and aligned facades express authority and urban order. It then moves through Parc Monceau, with the Rotonde de Chartres and the Naumachie, where follies and theatrical garden design create a world of illusion. The route ends near Musée Cernuschi and Église Saint-Charles de Monceau, showing how this neighborhood blends triumph, play, and collecting culture.

The stops

01
Arc de Triomphe
Napoleon commissioned this triumphal arch in 1806 to honor his army, though it wasn't finished until 1836, fifteen years after his death.
02
Avenue Hoche
One of the twelve avenues radiating from the Arc de Triomphe, this one is named for the Revolutionary general Lazare Hoche and lined end to end with the ornate stone mansions of the Second Empire, leading in a straight line toward the…
03
Statue of Frédéric Chopin (Paris)
The Statue of Frédéric Chopin is a public monument near Parc Monceau in the eighth arrondissement honoring the Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin.
04
Rotonde de Chartres
This domed pavilion is one of the few survivors of the barrières designed in the 1780s by the visionary architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for the wall that once encircled Paris and taxed goods entering the city.
05
Parc Monceau (Naumachie & Colonnade)
The park began in the 1770s as a fantasy garden for the Duke of Chartres, scattered with faux ruins, a pyramid, and a windmill; its centerpiece, the Naumachie, is an oval pool ringed by a Corinthian colonnade said to be salvaged from an…
06
Musée Nissim de Camondo
Count Moïse de Camondo built this mansion between 1911 and 1914 purely to house his collection of 18th-century French furniture and decorative arts, modeling it on the Petit Trianon at Versailles.
07
Musée Cernuschi
This mansion belonged to Henri Cernuschi, an Italian-born banker who spent a year traveling East Asia collecting bronzes and ceramics, then left both his house and his collection to the city of Paris when he died in 1896.
08
Église Saint-Charles de Monceau
Built in the 1860s and 70s as the surrounding Plaine Monceau neighborhood filled in with grand apartment buildings, this parish church breaks from the Gothic-revival style so common in 19th-century Paris churches, drawing instead on…