La Grande Arche

This afternoon I visited La Défense, the business district of Paris.

La Grande Arche opened on 14 July 1989, the two-hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution, the Grande Arche is the symbolic monument of the business district La Défense. It was built on the 'Axe historique' of Paris and offers a unique view of the Arc de Triomphe, the obelisk of Place de la Concorde and the Louvre museum.

A quarter of a century on, however, the crumbling state of La Grande Arche de la Défense is now undergoing €200m of important renovation work.