Champs Elysees is one of the main streets of Paris, where most parades are held. It stretches almost two kilometers, starting from the Place de la Concorde and ending near the Arc de Triomphe.

Her story is not as long as it might seem. The place where the Champs-Elysees are now located did not attract anyone's attention until 1616, when Maria de 'Medici ordered to ennoble it. A few decades later, the court landscape architect Lenotr designed the famous Grand Cours walking area. Houses here began to appear only a hundred years later, in the middle of the XVIII century. Although at that time the Champs Elysees were quite deserted and not particularly safe, even a guard post was built on the street. Over time, the Champs Elysees began to be added to the prestige and later became the home of many famous people such as the third US president Thomas Jefferson, the French president Raymond Poincaré and the actress Sarah Bernhard.

Now the Champs Elysees, perhaps, can be called, the center of Parisian glamor. They received their name from Elysium, the ancient island of the blessed, where the righteous and heroes who carelessly endowed immortality live. Although, obviously, with the righteous, as well as with the heroes, we are not doing very well - according to rumors, the prices for real estate on the Champs Elysees are so great that in all of Paris there were only six people who can afford to live there permanently. However, there are still available ways to join the luxury - for the meeting of the most important guests, some firms rent an office on the Champs-Elysees for a couple of hours. And still it is possible, as a budget option, to rent there only a mail box, for about one hundred EUR per month. Still other buildings are occupied by the offices of famous companies, restaurants, cinemas and expensive boutiques, which have become a place of pilgrimage for millions of fashionable people from around the world.

Reviews about the Champs Elysees (3)

Evaluation 10

Main street of Paris - Champs Elysees April 18, 2014

Eleonora

was here in November 2012

Those who came to Paris for various purposes, simply can not but visit the Champs Elysees, because this is the most important central street in Paris. which hosts a huge number of all city holidays, events and parades. Despite the fact that I spent only 3 days of my advertising tour in Paris, I visited the Champs-Elysees about 4-5 times. All sightseeing tours around Paris include a trip along this street (the cost of such programs varies from 15 to 80 euros, and ... Read full review

Evaluation 10

Champs Elysees - axis holding Paris December 02, 2013

Darianna

was here in June 2013

The truth is that the Champs-Elysees are not just a street, but a real axis, holding the whole of Paris. The main number of attractions in the French capital can be seen just walking along this street.

Greatness, power, and size of the Champs Elysees can be estimated only by looking at them from the upper viewing platform of the Arc de Triomphe. It is from this that we began to get acquainted with this famous street, and with all of Paris. Admiring the long, green, lively, stretching ... Read full review

Evaluation 10

And if the street is Champs Elysees! August 19, 2013

Briasha

was here in September 2012

If we say that the Champs Elysees is one of the main streets of Paris, it is still nothing to say. The beauty and spirit of such a wide and special street is easy to convey in photographs. However, along with this, her charm will not be transmitted.
Everyone who visited Paris was on this street too - it can not be rounded. Direct, strewn with commercial suites and French restaurants, perfumery companies, it as if inclines you to waste and pleasure. Go through it all - that was my goal. And she herself ... Read the whole review